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Yahoo! Web Celeb - March 2000 Leelee Sobieski Leelee Sobieski was discovered in her New York City School cafeteria. With only minimal acting experience - school plays and such - acting was something that did not come naturally to her. In the next few years, Leelee worked tirelessly to perfect her thespian abilities. Leelee struck gold, from her beginnings in television to her starring rolesin full-length silver screen movies; all of her hard work has paid off. Lilane Sobieski was born on June 10th, 1982, in France to Jean Sobieski, a famous French artist. Her mother is also a writer and together they raised Leelee (her nickname and stage name) and her younger brother in a cultural environment. All of her life she has been trained in several different forms of artistic expression and has been influenced by her parents' love of the arts. Leelee enjoys painting, sculpting and writing, as well as the more physical forms of art such as riding horses and the martial arts. Leelee's was first seen on television in a guest role on "Grace Under Fire." In 1994, she landed a role on television movie of the week "Reunion" with Marlo Thomas and A Horse For Danny with Robert Urich (1995). In 1995 Leelee also scored a leading role opposite Mark Harmon on "Charlie Grace," a short-lived series. Leelee tried out for the role of Claudia, the vampire child of Tom Cruise in the film Interview With The Vampire but was beaten out by Kirsten Dunst. Leelee Sobieski Filmography Here On Earth Eyes Wide Shut Never Been Kissed A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Jungle 2 Jungle A Horse For Danny Deep Impact Yahoo! Clubs for Leelee For the next year or so, Leelee continued attending high school between her acting gigs. In 1997, Leelee made her silver screen debut in the Disney movie Jungle 2 Jungle as the daughter of Martin Short that has a crush on Sam Huntington's Tarzan-like character. This was a box office hit and became the springboard for Leelee's career. Her next film was A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, which starred Barbara Hershey and was shot in Paris. The French language was not a problem for her. In 1998, Leelee starred opposite Elijah Wood in Deep Impact, a movie that centers on the impending danger of a comet striking the earth and changing civilization as we know it. Her first leading role was in May of 1999 in the four-hour CBS miniseries Joan of Arc, where she played the saintly Joan D'Arc. In this series, she worked with the likes of Jacqueline Bissett and Shirley MacLaine, among others. On the lighter side, Leelee starred opposite Drew Barrymore in the back-to-high-school comedy Never Been Kissed. In this movie, Leelee played a coming-of-age nerd who showed the world that even geeks can be cool and friends are more important than image. 1999 also saw Leelee's career take a sharp upturn when she starred along with celebrity couple Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise in Stanley Kubrick's sexy film Eyes Wide Shut. As memorabilia, Leelee likes to collect locks of hair from her costars with whom she is working. To date, everyone has been cooperative except the dashingly handsome Mr. Cruise. Her latest film is Here On Earth, co-starring Chris Klein, star of American Pie and Election, and Josh Hartnett from Halloween: H20 and The Faculty. Leelee plays Samantha, a young woman in a small town who becomes embroiled in a romantic triangle. Copyright 2000 UN Productions, Inc. Past Web Celebs: Laurie Plaskin, Andrew Shue, Calvert Deforest, Yasmine Bleeth, Howard Stern, Pamela Lee Anderson, David Letterman, Cindy Margolis, Will Smith, Kate Mulgrew, Jewel, Chris Rock, Rosie O'Donnell, Pierce Brosnan, Tracey Ullman, Fiona Apple, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Godzilla, Carmen Electra, Uma Thurman, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Salma Hayek, Jennifer Aniston, Nicolas Cage, Keanu Reeves, Calista Flockhart, Mike Myers, Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Daisy Fuentes, Edward Norton, Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey and Denzel Washington. Also check out Yahoo! Model of the Month and Yahoo! Blues Review. Copyright © 2000 Yahoo! Inc. All Rights Reserved.