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S. Occupation. Actress, film producer, model. Years active. 19. Spouse(s)Josh Kelley (m. 2. Children. 3Websitewww. Katherine Marie Heigl (; [1] born November 2. American actress, film producer and former fashion model.

She started her career as a child model with Wilhelmina Models before turning her attention to acting. She made her film debut in That Night (1. My Father the Hero (1. Barbarella Full Movie Online Free.

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1. Heigl played Izzie Stevens on the ABCmedical drama.

Grey's Anatomy from 2. Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2. Heigl has also had a prominent film career, with appearances in Knocked Up (2. Dresses (2. 00. 8), The Ugly Truth (2. Killers (2. 01. 0), Life As We Know It (2. New Year's Eve (2. She played the lead role on the short- lived NBC television series State of Affairs from 2.

Additionally, she has established herself as a cover model, appearing in numerous publications including Maxim, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan.[2] Heigl is married to singer Josh Kelley, with whom she has one son and two adopted daughters.[3]Early life[edit]Heigl was born in Washington, D. C., in Columbia Hospital for Women.[4] She is the youngest of four children of Nancy (née Engelhardt), a personal manager, and Paul Heigl, a financial executive and accountant.[5][6] Her father is of German (including Swiss- German) and Irish descent, and her mother is of German ancestry.[7][8] Her siblings are Meg (adopted), Jason (deceased), and Holt.[9] Heigl lived in Virginia and then Denver, before her family moved into a Victorian- style farmhouse in the town of New Canaan, Connecticut, when Katherine was five, and where she spent the rest of her childhood.[1. In 1. 98. 6, her older brother Jason died of injuries suffered in a car accident, after being thrown from the back of a pickup truck while out for lunch with some of his high school classmates. His organs were donated by his family after death.[1. Watch The Wicker Tree Online Free 2016 here. Her brother's death led Heigl's parents to convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints and Heigl was reared in that faith (prior to that, her mother had been Lutheran and her father Catholic).[1. Early work[edit]When Heigl was nine, an aunt visiting the family decided to take a number of photographs of her.

After returning to her home in New York, her aunt sent the photos to a number of modeling agencies, with the permission of Heigl's parents. Within a few weeks, she signed with Wilhelmina Models as a child model.[1. Soon after signing with the agency, a client slated Heigl for use in a magazine advertisement where she made her debut. At the time, she was earning $7. Sears and Lord & Taylor catalogs.

Heigl first appeared in a national television spot for Cheerios cereal. After her film debut in That Night in 1. Heigl played Christina Sebastian in Steven Soderbergh's Depression- era drama King of the Hill before being cast in her first leading role in the 1. My Father the Hero. During this time, Heigl continued to attend New Canaan High School, balancing her film and modeling work with her academic studies.

Heigl dropped out of New Canaan High School after her sophomore year to pursue her career in Hollywood. In 1. 99. 5, she starred in the Steven Seagalactionthriller. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.

Heigl portrayed a 1. Casey Ryback (Seagal), an ex- SEAL counter- terrorist expert. The main plotline has the train hijacked by mercenaries in Colorado, keeping her as a hostage.

Much of her work in the film was opposite Morris Chestnut, Sandra Taylor and Everett Mc. Gill. Despite an increased focus on acting, she still modeled extensively, appearing regularly in magazines such as Seventeen. She landed the lead role in Disney's made- for- television film Wish Upon a Star in 1. Danielle Harris, the same year as Heigl's parents divorced and her mother was diagnosed with cancer.[9] After her high school graduation in 1. Malibu Canyon, California with her mother, who also became her manager. In 1. 99. 8, she co- starred with Peter Fonda in a re- working of the classic Shakespearean play The Tempest, set during the American Civil War and starred in the horror film Bride of Chucky.

In 1. 99. 9, Heigl turned her attention to television when she accepted the role of Isabel Evans on the science fiction TV drama Roswell, a role that was expanded in the show's second and third seasons. Heigl had auditioned for all three of the show's female leads (the other two roles eventually went to Shiri Appleby and Majandra Delfino) before she was finally cast as Isabel, an alien human hybrid.[1. Heigl was frequently featured in photo essays in magazines such as Life, TV Guide, and Teen as well as FHM. She appeared in the FHM and Maxim calendars, FHM's annual "1. Sexiest Women in the World", and was featured in the Girls of Maxim Gallery.[2. In May 2. 00. 6, Maxim awarded her #1. Hot 1. 00. List as well as voted the 1.

Sexiest Woman in the World" by readers of FHM magazine. While Roswell was in production, Heigl worked on several films, including 1.

Girls, an independent 2. Valentine, a horror film starring David Boreanaz and Denise Richards.[2. Heigl accepted a role in Ground Zero, a television thriller scheduled to be telecast that fall which was based on the bestselling James Mills novel The Seventh Power, in the spring of 2. She co- starred as a brilliant and politically- concerned college student who helps to build a nuclear device to illustrate the need for a change in national priorities. The device ends up in the hands of a terrorist following betrayal by a fellow student.

However, after the September 1. It reemerged in 2. Critical Assembly. After the attacks, Heigl recorded a public service announcement for the American Red Cross in an effort to help raise money for victims. In 2. 00. 3, Heigl appeared in three television movies, including the horror genre Evil Never Dies, a modern- day variation on the Frankenstein story co- starring Thomas Gibson, Love Comes Softly for Hallmark Entertainment as Marty Claridge, a young, pregnant newlywed traveling west and reprised her role in the sequel Love's Enduring Promise the next year.

Heigl played Isabella Linton in MTV's modern revamp of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. In October 2. 00. Heigl was cast opposite Johnny Knoxville in The Ringer, a Farrelly brothers comedy that was released in December 2. Heigl starred as Romy in the 2. Romy and Michele: In the Beginning, a prequel to the 1. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. Grey's Anatomy[edit]In 2.

Heigl was cast in what would become her highest- profile role to date, as medical intern Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy. The show, originally a mid- season replacement, became a huge ratings success and one of the highest- rated series on broadcast TV. The same year, Heigl landed the starring role in the independent film Side Effects, a romantic comedy about marketing and the pharmaceutical industry, where she was also executive producer. In late 2. 00. 6, Heigl was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film for her work on Grey's Anatomy.

Also in 2. 00. 6, she filmed Knocked Up, a comedy from writer/director Judd Apatow, starring opposite Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, and Apatow's real- life wife, Leslie Mann. Upon its June 2. 00. The fees Heigl could command increased after the film's success. The movie grossed $1. U. S., for which she earned a salary of $3. USD.[2. 2] In a highly publicized Vanity Fair interview, Heigl admitted that though she enjoyed working with Apatow and Rogen when she starred in Knocked Up, she had a hard time enjoying the film itself.

She called the movie "a little sexist", claiming that the film "paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun- loving guys".[2.