Julia Stiles: Today's HD Hottie

The 27-year-old actress, who was born in New York City, started in theater work in the Big Apple, landing small roles in off-Broadway plays. But her first big break was in the 1998 indie film Wicked in which she played a teenage girl who murders her Mother so she can have her father to herself. Her performance was widely praised at the Sundance Film Festival.

Her 1999 role as a high school sweetheart in 10 Things I Hate About You (opposite Heath Ledger) made her a mainstream star and she soon followed that role with O, Save the Last Dance and Hamlet.

She reached an even wider audience when she was cast as a CIA agent in the Bourne trilogy, starting with the 2002 Bourne Identity, and as the suffering Mom in the 2006 horror film The Omen.

Her next film will be The Bell Jar