It all started with an act of parental guidance gone awry. A then-14-year-old Juno Temple had just told her father, British film director Julien Temple, and her mother, producer Amanda Temple, that she wanted to be an actress. Her parents, hoping to spare her a life of endless auditioning, decided to teach her a lesson. “They handed me a paper and said, ‘Here’s an open audition. Go try out and see how many other girls want to act,’” the actress, now 23, recalls. “Then,” as she puts it, “the craziest shit happened.” The movie was called Notes on a Scandal, and she got the part of Cate Blanchett’s daughter. Soon afterward, she tried out for a part in Atonement, opposite Keira Knightley. She booked that, too.

And just like that, Temple was a professional actress, with parts in five films released last year, including The Dark Knight Rises and Killer Joe, a role she got after she, “out of the blue, sent an audition video to the casting director,” director William Friedkin recalls. “In it, she did the part from memory, with her 10-year-old brother playing Killer Joe. It was sensational. I had no idea who she was.” This year, she’ll appear in eight films, including her latest, The Brass Teapot, opening this week, about a couple who acquire a teapot that spits cash whenever they get hurt. The role required Temple to veer between emotional extremes—from punishing to pleasing, abusive to loving—within ­seconds. “I don’t know anybody who ­commits the way she does,” says Teapot director Ramaa Mosley. “Then she turns around, and she’s a fun, normal person again. It was almost scary.”

This article originally appeared in the April 8, 2013 issue of New York Magazine.

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Juno won the EE Rising Star Award at the EE British Academy Film Awards. The award was presented to Juno by Sarah Silverman and John C. Reilly. Congratulations to Juno for winning!

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With seven films coming out in 2013, BAFTA Rising Star nominee Juno Temple is unstoppable – and she’s also the cover girl for Wonderland’s Feb/March issue.

Given that our issue is all about celebrating and reinventing the ‘babe’ in popular culture, it’s not surprise that we’ve gone for a left-field stunner for our cover girl. Juno Temple isn’t your average screen siren. Instead, the English beauty specialises in brave, bold roles: from the deceitful Lola in Atonement to the naive Dottie in Killer Joe, who’s deflowered by Matthew McConaughey’s psycho killer.

Photographed by Michael Hauptman, Temple wears Dolce & Gabbana. The new issue hits stands on Thursday 7 February – stay tuned this week for exclusive pictures from our shoot.

This year, Temple’s appearing in no less than seven films, including the eagerly-anticipated Lovelace with Amanda Seyfried and Magic Magic with Michael Cera – and don’t forget the not-so-small matter of her BAFTA nom for Rising Star (voting closes on the 8th).

“The fucking joy of great acting is that you forget who you’re watching and just become engrossed in the character,” she tells us. “I hope that happens with me, sometimes.” Somehow, we don’t think that’s going to be a problem.

Juno will join the TimesTalks at Cinema Café Panel at Sundance Film Festival on January 23. For more information be sure to visit Sundance.org.

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Juno Temple (Afternoon Delight, Lovelace, Magic Magic) and Robin Weigert (Concussion, Deadwood) with Melena Ryzik (the New York Times).
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You can watch the live stream of the interview over here. So be sure to tune in 12:00pm EST!

We wrote about this last February but it seems like “Girls’ Night Out” is still happening. The Guardian wrote an article about it earlier this week.

The Queen’s late sister, Princess Margaret, has gone down in history as a fun-loving woman with a penchant for parties. But the royal family probably never expected to see her portrayed on screen by a young English actress who has made her name playing an American serial killer beauty queen, a 1970s prostitute, a lesbian werewolf and an abused teenager from a Texas trailer park.

The actress, Juno Temple, 23, also happens to be the daughter of renegade movie-maker Julien Temple, director of the Sex Pistols film, The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle. Her aunt, Nina Temple, was the last secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and she is the granddaughter of another notable British communist, Landon Temple.
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Disney moved the release date of “Maleficent” to July 2, 2014.

In a related move, Disney has decided to give Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent a high-profile summer release. The film — centering on the beloved villain from the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale — moves from March 14, 2014, to July 2 of that year.
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Magnolia Pictures announced the US release date for “The Brass Teapot“. The movie will get a limited release on April 5th.

Excited to announce: The Brass Teapot will be in theaters in New York and Los Angeles opening April 5th! (Source)

It has just been announced that Juno is a nominee for this year’s BAFTA/EE Rising Star Award! She is nominated alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Andrea Riseborough, Suraj Sharma and Alicia Vikander.

The EE Rising Star Award honours a young actor or actress who has demonstrated exceptional talent and ambition and has begun to capture the imagination of the British public. Previous winners have included Tom Hardy, Kristen Stewart, Noel Clarke, Eva Green and James McAvoy, with 2012’s nominees including Chris Hemsworth, Chris O’Dowd, Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston and winner Adam Deacon. The award is the only one at the ceremony voted for by members of the public, and is a hotly-contested accolade for up-and-coming film talent.

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In just a few years, Juno Temple has firmly established herself as one of the most versatile and talented young actresses in Hollywood. Her breakthrough arrived when she won the role of Cate Blanchett’s rebellious, brooding daughter in Notes on a Scandal. This led to her appearance in the BAFTA- and Oscar-winning Atonement, opposite Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Saoirse Ronan. Since then a variety of well received film roles have followed, most recently opposite Matthew McConaughey and Emile Hirsch in the darkly comic Killer Joe.

Juno commented: “I’m extremely honoured to be nominated by BAFTA for this award and the fact the winner is voted for by the public makes it all the more exciting.”

You can register your vote at http://ee.co.uk/bafta. The award will be presented at the BAFTAs on Sunday, February 10. Good luck to Juno!