She starred along with her Beyond the Sea co-star Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor, as well as newcomer Brandon Routh as Superman. Late 2000s īosworth at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festivalīosworth was cast as reporter Lois Lane in Bryan Singer's superhero film Superman Returns (2006). For two years running, she has placed on the Maxim Hot 100 List – number 38 in 2005 and number 8 in 2006. She has appeared in several Revlon ads and ranked as number 60 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" list. The following year, Bosworth portrayed Chali, a Hare Krishna, in the film adaptation of Myla Goldberg's novel Bee Season (2005), about a dysfunctional Jewish family.
The movie received mixed reception, and was a box office disappointment, though Bosworth received critical acclaim for her performance. Also in 2004, Bosworth depicted actress Sandra Dee in Beyond the Sea. The film was critically and financially unsuccessful. In 2004, she played the lead role in romantic comedy Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, opposite Topher Grace. Bosworth played the teenage girlfriend of porn star John Holmes. Following the success of Blue Crush, Bosworth took on the lead role in low-budget Wonderland (2003) opposite Val Kilmer. In his review of the film, Rolling Stone's Peter Travers wrote: "Bosworth is a star in the making, but even she can't outshine the surfing footage, which is flat-out spectacular." The film received positive reviews and grossed $40 million at the United States box office.
The breakthrough role in Bosworth's career came in the 2002 surfing movie Blue Crush, which she prepared for by working out with two separate trainers seven hours a day for months in order to add fifteen pounds of muscle to her frame. In 2001, Bosworth moved to Los Angeles in hopes of obtaining easier access to auditions and better film parts. That same year, she had a small part in the film Remember the Titans.
In 2000, she starred in the television series drama Young Americans, in which she played Bella Banks. The film received positive reception from film critics. The film's producers needed someone who was already an experienced horse rider, leading to Bosworth's successful audition for the role. Career Early work īosworth's first film role came after an open casting call in New York for the supporting part of Judith in the 1998 film, The Horse Whisperer. She graduated from Cohasset High School, in Cohasset, Massachusetts, in 2001. īosworth developed an interest in equestrian sports, specifically stadium jumping, and by the age of 14, she was a champion equestrian. She was raised mainly on the East Coast, spending the rest of her youth in Massachusetts and Connecticut. When Bosworth was six years old, her family relocated from San Francisco to various parts of the country due to her father's job.
She was born with heterochromia iridum, and has a hazel right eye and a blue left eye. Bosworth was born in Los Angeles, California, and then raised in San Francisco, California, the only child of Patricia ( née Potter), a homemaker, and Harold Bosworth, a former executive for Talbots.