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Camilla Belle
Birth name	Camilla Belle Routh
Born	October 2, 1986 (1986-10-02) (age 21) Los Angeles, California, United States

Camilla Belle (born October 2, 1986) is an American actress. She is known for her lead role in the 2006 remake of When a Stranger Calls and the 2000 Disney Channel film Rip Girls.

Belle began appearing in print ads at the age of nine months. She progressed into commercials and began working in movies for network and cable television. Throughout the 1990s, she appeared in several made for television and direct to video movies, including Trapped Beneath the Earth, Annie: A Royal Adventure!, Poison Ivy II: Lily and Marshal Law. She had minor roles in several widely-released films, including A Little Princess, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Practical Magic, as well as the lead role as Lizzie in Back to the Secret Garden. She was also in a commercial for America's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) during the late 1990s.

In 2005, Belle starred in the film The Ballad of Jack and Rose, playing the daughter of Daniel Day-Lewis' character. The film only received a limited theatrical release, but Belle was labeled an "impressive newcomer" by film critic James Berardinelli.^[1] The film was her first in nearly four years. The same year, Belle also had a major role in The Chumscrubber, which received only a brief and limited theatrical release.

Belle was subsequently cast in the lead role in Screen Gems' horror film remake, When a Stranger Calls. The film was released on February 3, 2006 and was considered successful at the United States box office, grossing over $45 million after an opening of over $21 million.^[2] Later in 2006, she acted opposite Elisha Cuthbert and Edie Falco in The Quiet, a darkly comic drama in which she played a deaf-mute teenage orphan. Shortly after the release of When a Stranger Calls, Belle was cast opposite Steven Strait in the Warner Bros. film, 10,000 BC, a prehistoric epic to be directed by Roland Emmerich. The film is scheduled for a March 2008 release and began filming in the spring of 2006 in South Africa and Namibia.^[3]

As of 2006, Belle is the face of Vera Wang's new fragrance, Princess, by Coty Prestige. Belle has appeared on the cover of many magazines. She was on the Teen Vogue May 2006 cover.

Belle was born Camilla Bella Routh in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Christina (née Gould), who designed a fashion line in her native Brazil, and Jack Routh.^[4][5][6] She attended St. Paul's Catholic School in West Los Angeles and the Marlborough School, an independent all-girls school and high school. Belle, an aspiring classical pianist, speaks several languages fluently, including Spanish and Portuguese (her mother's native language). She has been actively involved in various charities and is an international spokesperson for Kids With A Cause, created to provide a helping hand to children suffering from poverty, hunger, lack of education, neglect, or abuse.

Belle is friends with actors Justin Chatwin and Jamie Bell, whom she met on the set of The Chumscrubber.^[7] She is also friends with tennis star, Maria Sharapova. She was named after actress Renata Sorrah's character, Camila, in the Brazilian soap opera Cavalo de Aço. She likes to watch Brazilian soap operas with her mother and used to visit her mother's family in São Paulo.

• Camilla Belle at the Internet Movie Database
• Camilla Belle Online, a fansite
• Camilla Belle Fan, a fansite
• Collection of interviews at Camilla Belle Online