From TV Darling to Big-Screen Goddess, Jessica Biel Celebrates Her 33rd Birthday!

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Jessica as the Lead in the Musical Short It’s a Digital World (1994)

One of Jessica’s first on-camera gigs was playing Regretal, the blue-faced and sad-hearted orphan girl in director Paul Greenberg’s digital short It’s a Digital World. The short never turned into a motion picture as hoped, but by the looks of this picture, that’s probably a good thing for Jessica.

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Jessica Biel in New Girl (2014)

Jessica Biel looked amazing and was hilarious playing Kat in the season premiere of season four of New Girl.

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Jessica Biel, Junior Year, Le Lycee Francais, Los Angeles (1999)

Gymnast, soccer player, theater geek and a trained singer, Jessica Biel pursued all her loves as a kid growing up in Boulder, Colorado. But at age 12, she was discovered by a modeling scout in Los Angeles and jumped into the world of print modeling. As she then went out for some television pilots, Biel attended Le Lycee Francais in L.A.

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Jessica Biel as Mary Camden in 7th Heaven

At 14, Biel landed her first television role as Mary, the second eldest Camden child, in the family-friendly hit drama 7th Heaven. She remained on the show for its 10-year run.

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Jessica Biel in The Rules of Attraction (2002)

Itching to break out of her squeaky-clean image, Biel took advantage of her TV hiatuses to take film roles that broadened her audience, like playing a promiscuous coed in The Rules of Attraction.

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Jessica Biel in Frightening Remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

Jessica starred in her first horror movie playing one of Leatherface’s victims in the well-received remake of the slasher classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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Jessica Biel as a Vampire Hunter in Blade: Trinity (2004)

Flush off the success of Texas Chainsaw, Biel remodeled her body to play a buff, no-nonsense vampire hunter alongside Ryan Reynolds and Wesley Snipes in Blade: Trinity. Her arm muscles alone were scary enough to run off the undead.

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Jessica Biel in Elizabethtown (2005)

Biel added some indie cred to her film resume by taking a small part in Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown. The film was a flop, but luckily she was barely in it.

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Jessica Rocks a Bikini in Puerto Rico (2006)

Jessica kept up her strong body post-Blade: Trinity and wasn’t afraid to show it off at various vacation locales where the paparazzi quickly made her one of their new favorite subjects. We get it.

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Jessica Biel in The Illusionist (2006)

Jessica got her crinolines on playing Duchess von Teschen in The Illusionist, a period drama about a master illusionist conjuring spirits in turn-of-the-century Vienna.

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Jessica Biel is the Love Interest in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)

Biel pranced around in her panties in the two-bros-pretending-to-be-gay Adam Sandler comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. She plays Sandler’s lawyer and eventual love interest.

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Jessica Gets Cozy with Bradley Cooper in The A-Team (2010)

Venturing back into the action genre, Biel got very tough as Capt. Charissa Sosa, who tries to bring Face and his A-Team buddies in from the fringes.

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Jessica Biel and Longtime Boyfriend Justin Timberlake (2010)

A serial monogamist, Jessica dated her former costar Adam LaVorgna for three years and then actor Chris Evans for five years. In 2007, she started seeing Justin Timberlake and that turned into a four-year relationship. They broke up for a brief time in 2011 and got engaged and then married soon after they reconciled. Check out our awesome Looking Back gallery on Justin Timberlake's swift rise to fame!

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Jessica Biel in New Year's Eve (2011)

Maybe dialing into her own newfound marital status, Biel played a first-time mother ready to pop in the holiday rom-com New Year's Eve. Is a little Biel/Timberlake in the cards in real life for the actress someday soon? Not yet, but we’ll keep our fingers crossed!

Jessica Biel in The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

Biel starred in the Sundance indie The Truth About Emanuel as Linda, the mysterious new neighbor of Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario) who looks eerily like her dead mother.