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First making an impression on the collective filmgoing consciousness as the resident bad-ass of the teen horror flick The_Faculty (1998), Clea Duvall has managed to stand out among the crowd of young actors who gained seemingly overnight fame during the late '90s. Strong-jawed and sharp-eyed, Duvall developed an interest in acting at an early age. Born in Los Angeles on September 25, 1977, she attended the Los Angeles High School of the Arts and got her professional start on television, making occasional appearances on a variety of shows including E.R. and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After minor work in a couple of independent films, Duvall nabbed her role in The_Faculty, starring as a moody goth girl alongside such up-and-comers as Elijah_Wood, Shawn_Hatosy, and Josh_Hartnett. The film was a fairly substantial box-office success, and in 1999 Duvall could be seen in no less than three more films. In The_Astronaut's_Wife she played Charlize_Theron's sister, while Girl,_Interrupted cast her as a resident of a mental hospital occupied by the likes of Winona_Ryder and Angelina_Jolie. Duvall also starred as an unwilling patient of another kind of rehab in But I'm a Cheerleader: a comedy-satire about Megan (Natasha_Lyonne), a high school cheerleader who is sent to a sort of straight rehab camp for gay teens, Duvall played a tattooed young lesbian who teaches Megan how to cheer for the other team. Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide

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