Career
Prior to making her debut in Little Witches, she worked in a coffee shop. DuVall's breakthrough role was in Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty in 1998, alongside Elijah Wood and Josh Hartnett, in which she played Stokely "Stokes" Mitchell. She then portrayed pathological liar Georgina Tuskin in the acclaimed Girl Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. Major roles in The Astronaut's Wife, But I'm a Cheerleader, Ghosts of Mars and Thirteen Conversations About One Thing followed. Along the way, she also had smaller parts in "She's All That" and "Can't Hardly Wait ".
After appearing in The Laramie Project, Identity and 21 Grams, DuVall starred in HBO's Emmy Award-winning Carnivàle, which ran from 2003–2005. During that time, she also starred in Helter Skelter (which earned her a Satellite Award nomination) and alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar in The Grudge. She had previously appeared alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the episode "Out of Mind, Out of Sight", Duvall played an unpopular Sunnydale High student who literally becomes invisible.
Other projects include Itty Bitty Titty Committee, David Fincher's Zodiac and a recurring role on NBC's hit series Heroes. In 2008 she starred with Anne Hathaway in Passengers.
More recent projects include roles in the 2012 Ben Affleck film Argo, in which she portrayed Cora Lijek, one of six American diplomats rescued from Iran in 1980, and the second season of the TV series American Horror Story.
DuVall has directed a short film called It's Not Easy Being Green, starring Leisha Hailey, Carnivàle co-star Carla Gallo and herself. She also took promotional pictures for Uh Huh Her.
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