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Margo Stilley (born November 20, 1982) is an American actress and former model, best known for her starring role in the sexually explicit British film 9 Songs.
Net Worth
$1 Million
Date Of Birth
November 20, 1982
Place Of Birth
Bear Creek, North Carolina, USA
Height
5' 9" (1.75 m)
Occupation
Actress
Profession
Actress
Nicknames
Margo Stilley, Stilley, Margo
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Quote
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[on fox hunting] Hunting with guns back home seemed wrong to me, but seeing a pack of hounds follow their natural urge is so majestic. Why would anyone ban such a thing? It's ridiculous.
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At 20, I auditioned with the director Michael Winterbottom for the lead in his controversial and sexually explicit film 9 Songs (2004). I wanted people to question their own moral identities as I had. I wanted the audience to ask themselves, "Why don't I like this?" "Why does this bother me?" I sacrificed myself, so that the audience could find out a little more about themselves.
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When you have been brought up as a religious person, when it has been part of your everyday life, you feel lost without it. It's as though I couldn't continue without religion in my life.
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People were really angry with me. When I did press conferences people would shout abuse at me. You'd think I invented sex! I got told I was a whore and a slut and how could I do it. And what kind of role model did I think I was giving young women?
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I had to go to church at least twice a week. We were told sex was bad and sex was wrong, and if you had sex outside marriage you'd die and stuff. I found it all very depressing.
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People ask me if I felt that Michael Winterbottom took advantage of me because I hadn't acted before, but they forget that I developed the character. I am not at all like Lisa, and I was genuinely shocked by the reaction to the film and, particularly, to my role in it.
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[on why she made '9 Songs'] I wanted to make a film about something I really believe in, which is to show sex in a very positive light, as a very important piece of everyday life and a very important piece of a relationship, whether it's successful or unsuccessful. What I find in films I see is that sex is always a turning point in action, someone's cheating on someone, or someone dies. It's always the kids having sex in horror films that die. And I didn't like that. And in the sexually explicit films I've seen like Ai No Corrida [the Japanese classic in which the heroine cuts off her partner's penis], they're crazy, people don't do that, it's not normal!
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Fact
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She was planning to convert to Judaism in 2006, and wrote an article about it for the Times (UK): "It's a strange time to become a Jew...", published August 13th 2006.
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Former model.
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She wanted director Winterbottom to refer to her simply by her character's name Lisa in interviews about the movie 'Nine Songs'.
