Thanks to Jenny for sending this in!<\/p>\n
Aunt’s hunch helps launch ‘Roswell’ star’s career<\/strong><\/p>\n
By Eirik Knutzen
\nCopley News Service
\nMay 17, 2000<\/p>\nA kindly aunt with tenuous connections to New York fashion model agencies
\nthought her blond niece was so cute that she took pictures of her in various
\nposes during a visit in New Canaan, Conn.<\/p>\nJust for fun, she asked permission from Katherine Heigl’s mother to
\ndistribute some of the shots among a handful of agents. There were no
\nobjections. A few weeks later, Katherine signed up with Wilhemina, the
\npretigious international agency.<\/p>\nIt took about a nanosecond for Heigl to make her professional debut in a
\nmagazine print ad, followed by a national TV commercial for Cheerios
\nbreakfast cereal. With another half-dozen commercials under her belt, she
\nmade her legitimate acting debut at the age od 11 in the feature film “That
\nNight” (1992) opposite Juliette Lewis and C. Thomas Howell.<\/p>\nOn a roll, she spent vacations, holidays and weekends cranking out such
\nfare as “King of the Hill” (1993), “My Father, the Hero” (1994), “Under Siege
\n2” (1995) and “Wish Upon A Star” (1996) before graduating from New Canaan
\nHigh School.<\/p>\nHeigl was suddenly left with the horrendous dilemma of going on to an
\nEastern college or trying her luck in Hollywood. Ultimately, there was no
\nreason to take a tremendous pa cut in favor of a university degree that had
\nno bearing on getting another acting job. Heigl and her divorced mother
\nmoved on to sunny Southern California in time to shoot a dog titled “Prince
\nValiant” (1997), “Stand-Ins” (1997) and “Bug Buster” (1998) didn’t do much
\nfor her career, either, but comedic horror flick “Bride of Chucky” (1998)
\ngarnered a fair amount of attention.<\/p>\nShe was highly visible when cast as a regular in the pseudo-sci-fi series
\n“Roswell” (Mondays, 8 p.m., WB). Heigl, now really cute 21 and looking sweet
\n16, portrays Isabel Evans, an illegal alien from a galaxy far away. A cross
\nbetween “The X-Files” and “Dawson’s Creek”, “Roswell” follows the adventures
\nof Isabel. her brother Max (Jason Behr) and their friend Michael (Brendan
\nFehr) during their tumultuous high school years in Roswell, N.M.<\/p>\nThe three youngsters were adopted under mysterious circumstances by
\nhumans shortly after emerging from their incubation pods at the age of 7.
\nThey appear to be the descendants of the strange critters on a crashed alien
\nspaceship who were incinerated on impact in 1947. These weird youngsters
\nwith special powers have to elude capture by the nasty local sheriff and
\nvarious nefarious federal agents.<\/p>\n“I love playing Isabel because she\u2019s very strong and positive — and
\nshe\u2019s sort of fashion-conscious,” says Heigl, laughing. “She also takes
\neverything very seriously, knowing that her life could be at stake anytime.
\nIsabel doesn\u2019t like feeling vulnerable and having to depend on a handful of
\nhigh school friends\u2026 . The fun part is watching my character emerge. I
\nlearn something new about her on every page of the script.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to Jenny for sending this in! Aunt’s hunch helps launch ‘Roswell’ star’s career By Eirik Knutzen Copley News Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2379,3],"tags":[6],"coauthors":[2266],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katherine-heigl","category-leading","tag-katherine-heigl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28083,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/28083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}