Clea DuVall
Overview
Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall (born September 25, 1977) is an American
United States
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 actress
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

. She is best known for her role as Sofie on the television series Carnivàle
Carnivàle
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes...

as well as for films such as The Faculty
The Faculty
The Faculty is a 1998 science fiction horror film written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Robert Rodriguez...

(1998), Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted (film)
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 drama film about a teenager's 18-month stay at a mental institution, starring Winona Ryder, Brittany Murphy, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg and Vanessa Redgrave, with Jolie winning an Academy Award for her performance....

(1999) and The Grudge
The Grudge
The Grudge is the 2004 American remake of the Japanese film Ju-on: The Grudge, and the first horror film in the Ju-on series, Ju-on 1. The film is the first installment in the American horror film series The Grudge...

(2004).
DuVall was born in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, the only child of Rosemary (née
Married and maiden names
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 Hatch) and Stephen DuVall. Her father is also an actor, mostly remembered as Connor from the Steven Segal film The Keeper.
Quotations

I'm an only child and I'm just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I'm happy. Not sad.

I think they think I'm like, James Dean or something. I wish I were, but I'm not.

It's not an easy business to break into, but I've been really fortunate. It's still hard to get the parts you want.

I got headshots, an agent and started auditioning, but things didn't get really started until I started working with my manager.

People are kinda seeing that it is okay to just be attracted to a person and not so much a body. For some people, that is more (honest) than just "homosexuality|gay" or "heterosexuality|straight." I think there is an in-between. I think bisexuality is frowned upon for a lot of different reasons. But I don't like any of those words. I don't like any of those labels. I think they're limiting.

 
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