Neve Campbell is a Canadian actress. She began her career with television commercials and small roles in local shows and films. She relocated to the United States to play Julia Salinger in the teen drama television series Party of Five (1994âÂÂâÂÂ2000), which became her breakthrough role. She then rose to international prominence for her leading roles as a witch in The Craft (1996) and final girl Sidney Prescott in Scream (1996), both of which were blockbuster horror films. Scream established her as a scream queen and spawned the Scream franchise, in which she reprised her role in every film except the sixth. She won two Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for Favourite Actress in 1998 and in 2001, and was twice nominated for both the Saturn Award for Best Actresswinning in 1997and the MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performancewinning in 1998.
After leaving Party of Five in 2000, Campbell expanded her profile by starring as an outcast student in the thriller film Wild Things (1998) and a love interest in the drama film Panic (2000). She earned critical praise for her performances as a ballet dancer in the drama film The Company (2003), for which she also produced and wrote the story, and as a femme fatale in the independent film When Will I Be Loved (2004). She made her West End theatre debut in a version of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues (2006) before announcing a hiatus from film, expressing her dissatisfaction with the roles she was being offered.
Campbell shifted her focus to television in the early 2010s, playing a recurring role on the drama thriller series Medium (2007), a philanthropist in the action series The Philanthropist (2009), and a journalist in the miniseries ' (2012). She was awarded the Canadian National Award of Excellence in 2016 and experienced a resurgence with the action blockbuster Skyscraper (2018). She has since played Laura Sobiech in the biographical drama Clouds (2020), a politician in the political thriller series House of Cards (2016âÂÂ2017), and a criminal prosecutor in the crime drama series The Lincoln Lawyer (2022âÂÂpresent). She also served as an executive producer for the documentary Swan Song (2023).