A play on the well known "All your base are belong to us" internet meme.

The term Internet meme ( /ˈmiːm/ MEEM)^[1] is used to describe a concept that spreads via the Internet.^[2] The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although the latter concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information. The earliest known usage of the word meme is in the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins published in 1976.

Description[link]

An Internet meme is an idea that is propagated through the World Wide Web. The idea may take the form of a hyperlink, video, picture, website, hashtag, or just a word or phrase, such as intentionally misspelling the word "more" as "moar" or "the" as "teh". The meme may spread from person to person via social networks, blogs, direct email, news sources, or other web-based services. An Internet meme may stay the same or may evolve over time, by chance or through commentary, imitations, parody, or by incorporating news accounts about itself. Internet memes can evolve and spread extremely rapidly, sometimes reaching world-wide popularity within a few days. Internet memes usually are formed from some social interaction (Rage comic or reaction faces), pop culture reference (Xzibit in "Yo Dawg" or Bear Grylls in "Better drink my own piss"), or situation people often find themselves in (Socially Awkward Penguin or Futurama Fry / Not Sure If X). Many memes also come from video games (such as the "arrow in the knee" from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim). For researchers it's hard to track down the birthplace of memes due to their viral nature, as well as the high chance of the meme spreading to major websites nearly instantly.

Their rapid growth and impact has caught the attention of both researchers and industry.^[3] Academically, researchers model how they evolve and predict which memes will survive and spread throughout the Web. Commercially, they are used in viral marketing where they are an inexpensive form of mass advertising.

Types and uses[link]

Public relations, advertising, and marketing professionals have embraced Internet memes as a form of viral marketing and guerrilla marketing to create marketing "buzz" for their product or service. The practice of using memes to market products or services is known as memetic marketing.^[4] Internet memes are seen as cost-effective, and because they are a (sometimes self-conscious) fad, they are therefore used as a way to create an image of cleverness or trendiness.

Marketers, for example, use Internet memes to create interest in films that would otherwise not generate positive publicity among critics. The 2006 film Snakes on a Plane generated much publicity via this method.^[5] Used in the context of public relations, the term would be more of an advertising buzzword than a proper Internet meme, although there is still an implication that the interest in the content is for purposes of trivia, ephemera, or frivolity rather than straightforward advertising and news.^[6]

Pronunciation[link]

The term "meme" has been widely mispronounced (/ˈmiːmi/, sounding like "me me" or sometimes "meh meh" or even mayh-mm) throughout various markets, including online gaming communities, podcasts, radio, and television and internet video.^[7] The French word même ("same"), a dynamic word having different meanings depending on usage as an adverb, pronoun, adjective, or within common expressions has also been adopted in the common mispronunciation of Dawkins' meme.^[8]

Notable examples[link]

See also[link]

Internet portal

• 4chan
• Something Awful
• Reddit
• Remix culture
• Cliché
• Fark
• Know Your Meme, a site explaining the origins and use of different memes
• Encyclopedia Dramatica, another catalog of memes

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Internet memes

• Gary Marshall, The Internet and Memetics - academic article about Internet and memes.
• Interactive timeline of Internet memes
• Site to generate images based on typical internet memes

Kevin Antoine Dodson (born June 14, 1986)^[1] is an Internet celebrity, singer, actor, and former resident of the Lincoln Park housing project in Huntsville, Alabama, whose interview on local television news became an Internet sensation and resulted in an Auto-Tuned song by The Gregory Brothers that has sold thousands of copies on iTunes and appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 list.^[2] The interview that propelled Dodson into fame was prompted by the report of a house intrusion and attempted rape of his sister Kelly Dodson.

The interview[link]

Dodson was interviewed on July 28, 2010, by NBC affiliate WAFF-48 News after the attempted rape of his sister by an intruder in her bedroom, in the projects of Lincoln Park.^[3][4]

The video of the interview caught attention because of the passionate and flamboyant style of his delivery, speaking directly to the camera, in which he directly addressed the people of his neighborhood as well as the would-be rapist, and his use of street vernacular.^[3][5] The reactions were mixed. Some local viewers phoned the TV station to complain that interviews with people such as Dodson reflected poorly on the community,^[3][5] whereupon the station defended broadcasting the interview by stating that censoring such people is "far worse." Jonathan Capehart, editorial page writer for The Washington Post, wrote that Dodson became an instant Internet sensation because "in this age of fake reality TV, he puts the real in reality,"^[5] to which he later added that Dodson "is one of the strongest people we’ve seen in a while."^[6]

A man holds a sign at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear that contains an image of Dodson with the "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife" line from the viral video interview.

"Bed Intruder Song" and rise to fame[link]

The video of Dodson's television interview went viral and then inspired several musical remixes, including a video by musical group The Gregory Brothers, known as the "Bed Intruder Song." The song was a huge success and eventually reached number 89 on Billboard's Hot 100 list.^[2] The popularity of the song inspired many covers and remixes, including a punk rock version by a team formed by Hayley Williams of Paramore, Jordan Pundik of New Found Glory, and Ethan Luck of Relient K.^[7]

Dodson was interviewed for the Today Show on NBC on August 26, 2010 about his new found "Web superstardom." On the program, Dodson's YouTube video was called "one of the most watched online videos ever," with the hosts noting it had already been viewed more than 16 million times as of that date.^[8] Dodson has done radio shows in Australia, has fans in London and is now widely recognized in his hometown of Huntsville.^[9]

Dodson had launched a website in which he asks for donations to assist his family in moving "out of the hood."^[10] The money, as well as money from sales of "Bed Intruder" on iTunes and merchandise such as T-shirts, will go to helping his family buy a new home and setting up a foundation for juvenile diabetes, a disease that has afflicted both his sister and his mother.^[11] In August 2010, Dodson noted the irony of having "a hit on iTunes, but we're still in the projects";^[12] one month later, Us Weekly reported that Dodson had made enough money from the song to move his family out of the projects to a better house.^[13] In September 2010, the Gregory Brothers reported that they had sold more than 250,000 copies of The Bed Intruder Song on iTunes.^[14]

In October 2010, Dodson gave a live performance of "Bed Intruder Song" with Michael Gregory of The Gregory Brothers at the 2010 BET Hip Hop Awards.^[15]

Excluding major label music videos, Dodson's song was the most viewed YouTube video of 2010.^[16][17] It was chosen as the "Meme of the Year" in the 2010 Urlies – both as the People's Choice and the Editors' Choice – while the original video of Dodson's television interview was the "Video of the Year" – People's Choice.^[18]

He was also featured in a segment on Lopez Tonight singing a "Chimney Intruder" song about Santa Claus,^[19] and on Tosh.0 for a "Web Redemption."^[20]

In Season 3 Episode 10 on The Cleveland Show a reference is made to Antoine Dodson in the form of Roberta, Cleveland's daughter. Roberta comes into the kitchen wearing Antoine's famous bandana and says "Rollo, you are so dumb, you are really dumb, for real".

Business ventures[link]

Dodson has capitalized on the success of "Bed Intruder Song." His first venture was a line of t-shirts and merchandise featuring the original album art from the iTunes release sold through zazzle.com. After a licensing dispute between the artist, the photographer, and his manager, he launched a storefront through districtlines.com with an unrelated line of merchandise. Since then he has authorized the creation and sale of a "Bed Intruder Costume" for Halloween 2010^[21] and endorsed a "Sex Offender Tracker" smartphone application for the iPhone and Android platforms.^[22] In late December 2010, Dodson was featured in a commercial advertising the new Tosh.0 season.

On January 21, 2011, MSN announced that Dodson was filming a pilot episode for a reality show, featuring Dodson and his family as they move from Huntsville to Los Angeles, California.^[23]

Personal life[link]

Dodson grew up in Chicago, and moved to Huntsville in 2004,^[24] where he attends Virginia College, working on an associate degree in business administration.^[24] He also works as a hairstylist.^[3] Antoine Dodson is the oldest of six children.^[3] In an online Q&A video with fans, he answered a question regarding his sexuality: "Am I bisexual? No. Gay? Yes."^[6] In an interview with CBS, Dodson told Shira Lazar that he had been a rape victim in the past.^[11]

On Saturday, April 23, 2011, Dodson was arrested for marijuana possession after he was pulled over for allegedly speeding. He was also arrested on five other misdemeanor charges but was released later that day.^[25][26][27]

On Sunday, September 25, 2011, Dodson was again arrested in Huntsville, Alabama at 6:20 pm for violating the city's loud noise ordinance. The police were going to let Dodson off with just a warning until they ran his name through the system and discovered he had an outstanding warrant against him for not reporting to court for the above mentioned marijuana violation. Dodson was arrested on the spot, but he was later released on a $516 bond.^[28]

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

• 2010: "Bed Intruder Song" (The Gregory Brothers, Antoine Dodson, and Kelly Dodson)
• 2011: "Gucci Bag" (Lady G featuring Antoine Dodson)^[29]
• 2012: "Lovesick Lullaby" (featuring Brent Morgan)^[30]

Films[link]

Currently, Antoine is appearing in a new motion picture called The Chronicles of Rick Roll with co-stars Paul "Bear" Vasquez, Stephen and Jack Quire, Ben Schulz, Brian Collins, Gary Brolsma and Lisa Moum, which is scheduled to be released in 2012.

He appears in American Pie 4 (a picture in Oz's house).

References[link]

External links[link]

• Antoine Dodson at the Internet Movie Database
• "The Star Wars Kid and the Bedroom Intruder – Panopticon or Subversion?". Academic Quarter, Fall 2011
• Antoine's Official Website

Boom goes the dynamite is the nickname given to a college sportscast at Ball State University in March 2005 that became an internet sensation. Covering the March 22, 2005 NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and New Jersey Nets, sportscaster Brian Collins monotonously says the phrase "boom goes the dynamite" as Pacers shooting guard Fred Jones hits a 3 with 2:03 left in the first quarter. Collins incorrectly gives the final score as Pacers 63 - Nets 61 (which was the score with 3:42 left in the third quarter); it was actually Nets 98 - Pacers 91.^[1]

During his freshman year, Collins agreed to appear on Ball State University's campus newscast in place of the regular sportscaster who was ill. The teleprompter was operational, but an inexperienced operator accidentally fast-forwarded through the script, leaving Collins with no choice but to ad-lib most of his script.^[2] Eventually posted on YouTube, the newscast is now known as "the Collins incident" in communications classes.^[2][3]

Collins' sportscast was also featured on television and radio throughout the country and earned him an appearance on The Late Show (hosted by Ball State alumnus David Letterman).^[4]

A trademark application on the phrase was filed but ultimately abandoned by a San Diego-based speculator who offered it on t-shirts, saying that part of the proceeds would go to a scholarship fund at Ball State for journalism students.^[5]

ESPN SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt sent Collins words of encouragement and paid homage to him using the "boom" catchphrase on the air several times.^[2]

In 2009, the Fox Sports program Best Damn Sports Show Period called the clip the #1 biggest "sports blooper" in all of televised sports reporting history.

Collins, among other internet stars, is set to star in the upcoming film The Chronicles of Rick Roll.^[6]

Popular culture[link]

The line Collins made famous has appeared in popular television programs.

• It is a catchphrase of animated character, Cleveland Brown, during or immediately following coitus.
  • Cleveland first used in the Family Guy seventh season premiere episode, "Love Blactually."^[7]
  • The phrase followed Cleveland to his spin-off, The Cleveland Show. During the January 23, 2011 episode, "Like a Boss", Cleveland uses the phrase during spontaneous, off-camera sex in the living room with his wife
  • He and Donna utter it twice and once, respectively, in the December 4, 2011 episode, "Sex and the Biddy".
• In "The Boy Can't Help It" episode of King of the Hill, one of Bobby Hill's "girlfriends" uses the phrase while they are playing video games at the Hill's house.^[8]
• In Pride FC "Best of Knockouts, Vol. 2," Mauro Ranallo used the line to describe the "Fastest Knockout" segment of the program.
• In the episode of How I Met Your Mother titled "I Heart NJ", Stella introduces her basement as "the coolest bar in the state, which is so close it will blow your mind," using the line.^[9]
• In the Veronica Mars episode "Welcome Wagon," Veronica uses the line when the police open a garage full of stolen goods.
• On the October 15, 2008 episode of The Colbert Report, Colbert uses the line while providing commentary on an unexciting chess match during his "Sport Report" segment.
• Will Smith used the line after a mispronunciation during the 81st Academy Awards.^[10]
• A character in Wanted uses "Boom goes the dynamite." ^[11]
• On the March 12, 2009 episode of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, host Jon Stewart exclaimed "Boom goes the dynamite!" after insulting Jim Cramer.
• In the Disney series Jonas, Kevin Jonas uses the line when his father says that Kevin's mother was the 23rd love of his life.
• Big D and the Kids Table's song "Doped Up Dollies On a One-Way Ticket to Blood" from their 2009 album, Fluent in Stroll, opens with the lyric "Boom goes the dynamite, dynamite, dynamite, boom goes the dynamite, dynamite, boom!"
• Borderlands for Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 3 has an achievement titled "Boom Goes the Dynamite!" for killing 50 enemies with explosive-based attacks.
• Keith Olbermann has used the phrase during highlights on Football Night in America and on occasion on his self-titled Countdown program.
• In 2010, Woody and Rizzuto Show sports reporter Tony Patrico started using the phrase, "Boom Goes The Dynamite" on KPNT after he botched up the sports reports numerous times. He closes every sports segment with Brian's famous line.
• In the Travel Channel show Man vs. Food, during a live eating challenge at Shula's Steakhouse before Super Bowl 44, after an awkward comment from one of the color commentators for the challenge, host Adam Richman used the phrase.
• In the season 2 premier of Warehouse 13, Claudia uses the line when Artie exposes a chameleon mine. Also said by Claudia in the season 3 episode Don't Hate the Player, when retrieving game-Leena's feather from her inventory.
• In the popular online video series, Marvel vs. DC by ItsJustSomeRandomGuy, Deadpool uses this line after shooting Watchmen star The Comedian.
• The line is spoken by the title character in the satirical Broadway musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.
• In Episode 3 of "Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse", a game by TellTale Games, "...and boom goes the dynamite" is one of several lines that can be heard from the radio sports announcer when the player is waiting to hear the finishing move that "Skunkape" uses on his opponent.
• In the November 22, 2010 episode of House M.D. entitled "Small Sacrifices" (Season 7, Episode 8), Dr. Gregory House, portrayed by Hugh Laurie, exclaimed, "Boom goes the dynamite, scores are tied, and we are even-steven!" after purportedly catching Dr. Lisa Cuddy, portrayed by Lisa Edelstein, in a lie.
• During the January 24, 2011 episode of Gossip Girl, 12th episode of Season 4 "The Kids Are Not Alright" Nate Archibald's recently paroled father wins a Wii Tennis Game against two women in maids outfits and exclaims, "Boom Goes the Dynamite".
• While giving the Fox 4 (Kansas City) morning weather report on February 1, 2011, Don Harman utters a "Boom goes the dynamite" at the 2:00 mark in regards to a sudden precipitation expansion on the radar replay.
• NBA Jam (2010 video game) includes "Boom goes the dynamite" as one of the many one-liners used when players score a basket.^[12]
• In the pilot episode of Breaking In, Cash uses the phrase as he continually pranks the new team member.
• Brian was featured in the "Web Redemption" segment of the May 24, 2011 episode of Tosh.0 ^[13]
• In the episode of Dan for Mayor on July 17, 2011 entitled The Art of Gambling, Deputy Mayor Alan is heard saying "...boom goes the dynamite" in a conversation with a new artist.
• In a Kiowa Casino commercial near Lawton, Oklahoma, after an old woman wins a poker hand, she slams the cards down on the table and says "And boom goes the dynamite!"
• In the video game Saints Row: The Third, the achievement/trophy for completing all instances of the "Heli Assault" activity is called "And Boom Goes the Dynamite."^[14]
• In the video game APB:Reloaded, the Steam achievement for killing all the enemy players at a time by making a vehicle explode is called "Boom goes the Dynamite"
• On the NBC Sports Report during the 2012 Bay Hill Invitational, host Jimmy Roberts uses the phrase, "and as a sportscaster once famously said, 'Boom goes the dynamite.'", while reporting on the implosion of the Amway Arena in Orlando, Florida.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Boom Goes the Dynamite on YouTube
• Article from Ball State Daily News

Julia Stiles
Stiles at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York, April 25, 2007
Born	Julia O'Hara Stiles (1981-03-28) March 28, 1981 (age 31) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	actress
Years active	1993–present
Website
juliastilesblog.com

Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 28, 1981) is an American actress.

After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet. Her film career has included both commercial and critical successes, ranging from teen romantic comedies such as 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) to dark art house pictures such as The Business of Strangers (2001). She is also known for playing the supporting character Nicky Parsons in the Bourne film series and the leading role in Save the Last Dance, and for her role in Mona Lisa Smile. She guest starred as Lumen Pierce in the fifth season of the Showtime series Dexter, a role that earned her Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations.^[1][2]

Early life[link]

Stiles was born in New York City, the eldest of three children. Her mother, Judith Newcomb Stiles, is a potter, and her father, John O'Hara, is a businessman.^[3] Stiles has English, Irish, and Italian ancestry.^[4] She started acting at age eleven, performing with New York's La MaMa Theatre Company.^[5]

Career[link]

Film career[link]

Stiles' first film was a non-speaking part in I Love You, I Love You Not (1996), with Claire Danes and Jude Law. She also had small roles as Harrison Ford's daughter in Alan J. Pakula's The Devil's Own (1997) and in M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake (1998). Her first lead was in Wicked (1998), playing a teenage girl who might have murdered her mother so she could have her father all to herself. Critic Joe Balthai wrote she was "the darling of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival"^[6] and Internet movie writer Harry Knowles said she was the "discovery of the fest", but the film was not commercially released in the U.S. and went direct-to-video.

In 1999, she portrayed Kat Stratford, opposite Heath Ledger, in Gil Junger's 10 Things I Hate About You, an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew set in a high school in Tacoma, Washington. She won an MTV Movie Award for "Breakthrough Female Performance" for the role, and the Chicago Film Critics voted her the most promising new actress of the year. Foreign critics applauded her work as well, including Adina Hoffman, who praised her as "a young, serious looking Diane Lane"^[7] and Martin Hoyle, who commented that Stiles played Kat "with bloody-minded independent charm from the beginning with hints of wistfulness beneath the determination."^[8]

Her next starring role was in Down to You (2000), which was panned by critics, but earned her and her co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr. a Teen Choice Award nomination for their on-screen chemistry. She subsequently appeared in two more Shakespearean adaptations. The first was as Ophelia in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000), with Ethan Hawke in the lead. The second was in the Desdemona role, opposite Mekhi Phifer, in Tim Blake Nelson's O (2001), a version of Othello set in a private boarding school. Neither film was a great success; O was subject to many delays and a change of distributors, and Hamlet was an art house film shot on a minimal budget.

Stiles' next commercial success was in Save the Last Dance (2001), as an aspiring ballerina forced to leave her small town in downstate Illinois to live with her struggling musician father in Chicago after her mother dies in a car accident. At her new, nearly all-black school, she falls in love with the character played by Sean Patrick Thomas, who teaches her hip-hop dance steps that get her into The Juilliard School. The role won her two more MTV awards for "Best Kiss" and "Best Female Performance", and a Teen Choice Award for best fight scene for her battle with Bianca Lawson. Rolling Stone pronounced her "the coolest co-ed," putting her on the cover of its April 12, 2001 issue. She told Rolling Stone that she performed all her own dancing in the film, though the way the film was shot and edited might have made it appear otherwise.^[9]

In David Mamet's State and Main (2000), about a film shooting on location in a small town in Vermont, she played a teenage girl who seduces a film actor (Alec Baldwin) with a weakness for young girls. Stiles also appeared opposite Stockard Channing in the dark art-house film The Business of Strangers (2001) as a conniving, amoral secretary who exacts revenge on her boss. Channing was impressed by her co-star: "In addition to her talent, she has a quality that is almost feral, something that can make people uneasy. She has an effect on people."^[10] Stiles also had a small but crucial role as Treadstone operative Nicolette "Nicky" Parsons in The Bourne Identity (2002), a role that was enlarged in The Bourne Supremacy (2004), then greatly expanded in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).

Between the Bourne films, she appeared in Mona Lisa Smile (2003) as Joan, a student at Wellesley College in 1953, whose art professor (Julia Roberts) encourages her to pursue a career in law rather than become a wife and mother. Critic Stephen Holden referred to her as one of cinema's "brightest young stars,"^[11] but the film met with generally unfavorable reviews.

Stiles played a Wisconsin college student who is swept off her feet by a Danish prince in The Prince and Me (2004), directed by Martha Coolidge. Stiles told an interviewer that she was very similar to the character, Paige Morgan. Critic Scott Foundas said while she was, as always, "irrepressibly engaging," the film was a "strange career choice for Stiles."^[12] This echoed criticism in reviews of A Guy Thing (2003), a romantic comedy with Jason Lee and Selma Blair. Critic Dennis Harvey wrote that Stiles was "wasted,"^[13] and Stephen Holden called her "a serious actress from whom comedy does not seem to flow naturally".^[14]

In 2005, Stiles was cast opposite her Hamlet co-star Liev Schreiber in The Omen, a remake of the 1976 horror film. The film was released on June 6, 2006.^[15]

She returned to the Bourne series with a much larger role in The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007, and to this day it is her highest grossing film. Producer Lynda Obst said that Stiles was "turning into the next Meryl Streep."^[16] Stiles also appears in the 2008 film Gospel Hill. She portrayed a woman who falls in love with her stalker in the 2009 thriller The Cry of the Owl, based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith.^[17]

Julia Stiles began filming on her latest project, Between Us, in May 2011 with co-stars Taye Diggs, David Harbour and Melissa George. Between Us is the screen adaptation of the Off-Broadway play by the same name written by playwright Joe Hortua.^[18]

Stage career[link]

Stiles' first theatrical roles were in works by author/composer John Moran with the group Ridge Theater, in Manhattan's Lower East Side from 1993–1998. She later performed on stage in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, in the summer of 2002 and appeared as Viola, the lead role in Shakespeare in the Park's production of Twelfth Night with Jimmy Smits. Reviewing the production, Ben Brantley of The New York Times saluted Stiles as "the thinking teenager's movie goddess" who put him in mind of a "young Jane Fonda."^[19]

In the spring of 2004, she made her London stage debut opposite Aaron Eckhart in a revival of David Mamet's play Oleanna at the Garrick Theatre.^[20]

She reprised the role of Carol in a 2009 production,^[21] directed by Doug Hughes and co-starring Bill Pullman at the Mark Taper Forum. On June 30, 2009, it was announced that this production would be transferring to Broadway's John Golden Theatre, with previews beginning Sept. 29 before an October 11 opening night.^[22]

Stiles will play Jeannie in a production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig directed by the playwright beginning in April 2011.^[23]

Other work[link]

Stiles appeared in the video for Cyndi Lauper's single, "Sally's Pigeons" in 1993. On March 17, 2001, Stiles hosted Saturday Night Live and, eight days later, she was a presenter at the 73rd Academy Awards.^[24] She returned to Saturday Night Live on May 5 appearing as then-President George W. Bush's daughter Jenna Bush in a skit that poked fun at the two first daughters being arrested for underage drinking.^[3] MTV profiled her in its Diary series in 2003,^[25] and she was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher at a Washington DC museum in the spring of 2004.^[26]

Stiles made her writing and directorial debut with Elle magazine's short Raving starring Zooey Deschanel.^[27] It premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.^[28]

In May 2010 Stiles was cast in a major role in the Showtime series Dexter^[29] and signed for 10 episodes.^[30] For this role Stiles received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.^[31] as well as a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

Personal life[link]

Stiles is a graduate of Columbia University and holds a degree in English literature. She received a John Jay Award in 2010, the annual honorary award given to five alumni by the Columbia College Alumni Association for professional achievements.^[32]

Stiles has also worked for Habitat for Humanity, building housing in Costa Rica,^[33] and has worked with Amnesty International to raise awareness of the harsh conditions of immigration detention of unaccompanied juveniles; Marie Claire, in January 2004, featured Stiles' trip to see conditions at the Berks County Youth Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania.^[34][35]

She is an ex-vegan, occasionally eating red meat.^[36] She says she gave up veganism after she developed anemia and found it difficult to get proper nutrition while traveling. Stiles has described herself as a feminist and wrote on the subject in The Guardian.^[20]

An avid baseball fan, she supports the New York Mets.^[37] She threw the ceremonial first pitch before their May 29, 2006 game.^[38] She is also an avid soccer fan and supports the New York Red Bulls. ^[39]

She's currently in a relationship with actor David Harbour.^[40]

Filmography[link]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

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