The Celebrity Face

Sophia Anna Bush (born July 8, 1982) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Brooke Davis in the CW series One Tree Hill and for portraying Grace Andrews in the horror remake The Hitcher.

Early life

Sophia Bush, an only child, was born and raised in Pasadena, California to Charles William Bush, an advertising and celebrity photographer, and Maureen, a photography studio manager. Bush has French-Canadian and Italian ancestry, and attended Westridge School for Girls (Pasadena), as well as the University of Southern California. She was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, where she served as Social Chair.

In 2000, she was the Tournament of Roses Parade Queen. Bush attended USC for three years before landing the role of Brooke Davis on One Tree Hill (2003).

Career

Bush made her first big screen appearance in the comedy Van Wilder as Sally (the freshman who seduces Van and doesn’t know who Air Supply is). Since then, she has made appearances in several television shows including Nip/Tuck, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and Punk’d. She was cast as Kate Brewster in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, but was replaced by Claire Danes because the director thought she was too young. In 2003, she won the role of Brooke Davis in the television series One Tree Hill.

In between seasons of One Tree Hill, Bush has been cast in several films, such as Supercross, Stay Alive, John Tucker Must Die, and the remake, The Hitcher.

Bush received a "Rising Star" award at the Vail Film Festival for her work in The Hitcher. She has also won three Teen Choice Awards for her work in John Tucker Must Die and The Hitcher.

On April 20, 2007, it was confirmed that Bush will star in Francois Velle’s The Narrows with Kevin Zegers, Eddie Cahill and Vincent D’Onofrio. It is reported that she will play the beautiful, intelligent and self-assured Kathy Popovich. Filming began in New York on April 24, 2007 and is due for a 2008 release date. Bush is also starring in the film Table for Three, which is set to have a late 2008 release. The story centers on a suddenly single young man, Scott Teller (Brandon Routh), who invites a "perfect couple," Mary and Ryan (Bush and Jesse Bradford), to share his large apartment. When Teller meets the girl of his dreams, Leslie (Jennifer Morrison), he believes that Ryan and Mary are intentionally sabotaging his chances with her because they desperately need him in their life to hold their dysfunctional relationship together.

Personal life

On April 16, 2005, Bush married actor Chad Michael Murray, her One Tree Hill co-star. They dated for almost two years before they were married in Santa Monica. But then they announced their separation on September 26, 2005 after five months of marriage when Bush filed court papers to have their marriage annulled. In December of 2006, Bush and Murray’s divorce was made final. Bush was in a relationship with Stay Alive co-star Jon Foster after her divorce until August 2007. Later, rumors surfaced that Bush and Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Tony Romo were dating. They were reportedly seen together in Texas.

In December 2007, it was reported by Rush & Molloy in the New York Daily News that Bush had "now hooked up with co-star James Lafferty"; the report also mentioned that a rep for the actress has denied there is any romance. Recently, photos surfaced of Lafferty and Bush at LAX and LAX Baggage Claim together, which fueled rumors of a possible romance.

In February 2008, Bush made several appearances in Texas in support of the Barack Obama campaign in the Texas Presidential primary election. She was joined in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Waco by fellow actor Adam Rodriguez. Touring mostly college campuses, they urged young voters to get involved politically.

Filmography

Sophia Bush Interview

You may know her from One Tree Hill, or you may know her from her recently released thriller The Hitcher. However, one thing you’ll never know Sophia Bush as is a drunk and ditsy tabloid spectacle. Through trials and tribulations, breakups and breakdowns, Bush finally figured out the best way to keep from becoming Hollywood’s whipping girl: stay away.

You began working when you were still young, basically a kid. Year by year, as technology continues to progress, it seems as though American society has become more and more obsessed with its stars, especially younger ones who may or may not be getting into trouble, trouble that is almost immediately pointed out and posted on a blog. Has it been hard to grow up when your personal life is half-way posted on IMDb at any given moment?

I’ve been bitten by it, and I’ve also been very fortunate because, unlike a lot of the kids in my age range in this business, I don’t work in Hollywood. I have spent every summer on location and I shoot my show on location, so I am home little enough that people don’t know my schedule and where I go and what I do. If I get photographed, 90 percent of the time, it’s at an event. The small piece of my personal life that did become part of the news media was odd because you can’t control how long or how much they’re going to talk about something; you can’t control their accuracy. If anything, I’m thankful that I have had so much time outside of that machine on location, because I have definitely learned that lesson.

Like it or not, the world constantly has its eyes on hot, young female stars—the Lindsay Lohans of the land. Is it difficult to be taken seriously as a young actress when certain scandalous ladies out there in a very similar line of work are making a lurid spectacle of themselves?

What I think makes it difficult to not be taken seriously is falling on your face drunk all the time or running around without your underwear on. It’s not that difficult to get dressed, and it’s not that difficult to keep yourself under a level of control. I have nothing against going out and having a great night with friends. Everyone wants to go out and have a couple of cocktails and dance and be silly and take some time off. But I think you have to choose what your priorities are. When you don’t show up to work or when you show up late, it’s not just your reputation that gets affected, it affects the 10 grips on your show. If you show up four hours late, they are four hours late to come home and they can’t put their kids to bed. That is the part I don’t think a lot of people take into consideration. A movie or TV set is a cohesive machine, every part works together, and if one person is selfish enough to throw that off, it affects every other person there.

It sounds like it’s satisfying to not be a part of that “young Hollywood” crowd that carouses about the town half-cocked and half-naked all the time.

I appreciate that when I am considered part of “young Hollywood,” it’s because of my work, not my ability to shotgun beers. That is how I want to be represented, not by my social habits. I love my job, I love acting, I love making movies, I love becoming someone else for 10 hours a day for the joy of finding someone else’s psychology. If I plan on doing this for the rest of my life, if I plan to still be working until I’m 60, I can’t blow it now. I’d rather do it slowly and properly than explode for being a party girl and not have a career in two years, it’s not worth it for me.

When you take a look at all the party pictures online and the split second shots of debauchery all over the tabloids, it really feels as though a lot of these people are searching for something and don’t have a clue where to find it.

It’s one thing to see somebody a little tipsy coming out of a club and having a good time every once in a while. But it’s a whole other thing to see somebody completely wasted every time, every night, at every Hollywood hot spot. I think it becomes a desire to be part of the in-crowd or something like that. I’m amused by it because the people who others might see or read about partying every night, I almost always see them when I go out occasionally. You can go when you want to go, you don’t have to go every night to guarantee you’re going to be let behind the velvet rope. I think you’re right, I think it’s about a need to be validated. I’d rather be validated by a director telling me that we nailed it during filming than by feeling that I have access to anywhere I want to go.

Does it change the vibe on the set when you’re working with a tabloid spectacle? Does it force you to take them less seriously? Do you sympathize with their confusion and their plight at all?

I don’t care what the press is about a person that I’m working with. I care about how they come to work every day. I don’t care who broke up with who or who is sleeping with who or who went out where. I don’t care what you do with your personal life. It’s when people take their personal lives into a space where it affects their performance at work, that’s when I would stop taking someone seriously.

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