Paz de la Huerta

Paz de la Huerta
Paz de la Huerta at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	María de la Paz Elizabeth Sofía Adriana de la Huerta (1984-09-03) September 3, 1984 New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1998–present

María de la Paz Elizabeth Sofía Adriana de la Huerta (born September 3, 1984), known by her stage name Paz de la Huerta, is an American actress and model. De la Huerta is notable for her roles in the films The Cider House Rules (1999), A Walk to Remember (2002), Choke (2008), Enter the Void (2009), and Nurse 3D (2013), and for her role as Lucy Danziger in the HBO drama series Boardwalk Empire.

Early life

De la Huerta was raised by her mother, along with her older sister, Rafaela de la Paz (born November 5, 1981), in the New York City neighborhood of SoHo, located in the Lower Manhattan area. Her parents are Íñigo de la Huerta y Ozores, the Spanish XVII Duke of Mandas and Villanueva, (born November 17, 1944, in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) and Judith Bruce (born October 23, 1946, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States). De la Huerta was born with recurrent cystic hygroma under her arm, which she has had treated with multiple surgeries. Her mother worked as an authority on birth control and women's issues in Third World countries. She attended private Saint Ann's School in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, with fellow student and future fashion designer, Zac Posen, for whom she has since modeled. She also attended the performing arts camp Buck's Rock. De la Huerta spent summers with her father in Spain while attending high school.

Career

De la Huerta began modeling in her adolescence and became a runway model before transitioning into film. She made her film debut with a small role in the 1998 romantic comedy The Object of My Affection, and then starred opposite Michael Caine and Charlize Theron in The Cider House Rules (1999).

In 2002, she starred opposite Shane West and Mandy Moore in A Walk to Remember (2002), based on Nicholas Sparks' novel. De la Huerta starred in several independent films throughout the 2000s, and landed a role in Choke (2008), based on Chuck Palahniuk's popular novel. In 2010, De la Huerta landed a regular role on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, produced by Martin Scorsese, opposite Steve Buscemi and Michael Pitt. She posed nude for the January/February 2013 issue of Playboy, and appeared on the front cover.

In 2014, filming in Las Vegas completed for the movie Death in the Desert, co-starring de la Huerta as Margo, with singer Roxy Saint as Corey, and directed by Josh Evans. Shayla Beesley played casino mogul Ted Binion's live-in girlfriend (named Kim in the film), alongside co-star Michael Madsen, who played Binion (renamed Ray for the film). The movie was inspired by the book Death in the Desert by Cathy Scott with the screenplay by John Steppling.

Personal life

De la Huerta lived with her mother and sister in New York City until her mid-twenties, when she moved into an apartment in the Tribeca neighborhood, later moving to a lower Manhattan apartment adjacent to her mother's. Her first boyfriend was Donald Cumming, frontman of The Virgins, whom she dated when she was 17. She has also dated Jack Nicholson, Scott Weiland and Orlando Bloom.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	The Object of My Affection	13-year-old Sally
1998	Luminous Motion	Beatrice
1999	The Cider House Rules	Mary Agnes
2000	Looking for an Echo	Nicole Delgado
2001	Bailey's Mistake	Becca Donovan	Television film
2001	Chelsea Walls	Girl
2001	Riding in Cars with Boys	Phone call flirt
2002	A Walk to Remember	Tracie
2002	A Girl's Guide to the Galaxy	Maxie	Short film
2003	Bringing Rain	Dakota Cunningham
2003	Rick	Vicki
2004	Homework	Sara
2005	Steal Me	Lily Rose
2005	Fierce People	Jilly
2006	Hollywood Dreams	Guest at wedding
2006	5up 2down	Allie
2006	Nail Polish	Becky Burns
2006	The Tripper	Jade
2007	Anamorph	Young woman
2007	Light and the Sufferer	Annette
2007	Neal Cassady	Tonya Novak
2008	The Guitar	Constance "Cookie" Clemente
2008	Choke	Nico
2008	Deception	List member #1
2009	The Limits of Control	Nude
2009	Enter the Void	Linda
2009	Nothing Personal	Tess	Short film
2009	42 One Dream Rush	N/A
2011	4:44 Last Day on Earth	Woman on street
2012	Getting high	Ally
2012	The Girl Is in Trouble	Maria
2012	30 Beats	Laura
2013	Nurse 3D	Abby Russell
2013	In the Woods	N/A	Part of The Being Experience trilogy by Jennifer Elster
2015	Bare	Pepper
2015	Concrete Underground		Post-production
2015	Death in the Desert	Margo	Post-production
2015	Aimy in a Cage	Caroline	Completed
2016	Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins	Margo	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Law & Order	Chloe	Episode: "Loco Parentis"
2000	The Practice	Jenny Holbrook	Episode: "Black Widows"
2000	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Karen Raye	Episode: "Chat Room"
2008	X Femmes	Miss Lingerie	Episode: "Le bijou indiscret"
2010–2011	Boardwalk Empire	Lucy Danziger	Main cast (seasons 1–2); 13 episodes
2013	Eagleheart	Tess	2 episodes

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Notes
2007	"By the Time I Get Home There Won't Be Much of a Place for Me"	Grand National
2011	"Video Games"	Lana Del Rey	Paparazzi footage

External links

• Paz de la Huerta at the Internet Movie Database
• Paz de la Huerta: Behind the Nude, article at Focus Features' website
• Are You Ready for Paz?, article at New York magazine's website
• Interview with Paz de la Huerta by Imagine Fashion
• Paz de la Huerta Image Gallery