Jessica Biel has been a household name for many years now. Her breakout role was Mary Camden in the drama TV series, 7th Heaven. It was her first major TV role, in which she achieved recognition.
Since then, she has gone on to star in numerous other roles such as I'll Be Home For Christmas, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve, The Sinner and more. She has also become a producer for many shows and films such as The Sinner, Cruel Summer and The Book Of Love.
Aside from her professional career, Biel is married to actor, singer and songwriter, Justin Timberlake, which whom she had two kids, Silas and Phineas, with.
She has certainly changed in the 25+ years she has been in the industry. Scroll for the evolution of Jessica Biel since playing Mary Camden on 7th Heaven.
11 '7th Heaven' Days
When you get your big break as a child actress on a series that lasts over 10 seasons, you're set for life. That is exactly what happened with Jessica Biel. Playing Mary Camden, the oldest Camden girl, on 7th Heaven, skyrocketed her career. Mary Camden was the sporty tomboy of the family. Biel played her from 1996 to 2002 as a regular character, then a recurring character in seasons 7, 8, and 10. She was bumped to a reoccurring role as a result of her rebelling a bit from being on a squeaky clean show. She was also attending college at Tufts University, which caused her to be absent from the show.
10 'I'll Be Home For Christmas'
Jessica Biel had starred in a few movies before I'll Be Home For Christmas, but this film was her major movie, where she played Allie Henderson, Jake Wilkinson's girlfriend. It was in 1998 while she was filming 7th Heaven and being a big Hollywood star. She was 16 at the time. This was her only role, besides 7th Heaven until 2001. She had the typical 1990s haircut and was considered a role model for young girls.
9 First Major Role
In 2004, Texas Chainsaw Massacre was her first major role and leading role. By then, at the age of 22, she had completely shed her childhood roots, growing out her hair, and establishing herself as a serious actress. Around this time, she had also starred in Summer Catch and The Rules of Attraction, not yet branching out to TV besides 7th Heaven. By this time, she had graduated from college and was now completely focused on her acting career. Although Massacre was met with negative reviews, it scored the number one in its opening week and racked in $80 million.
8 Short Hair And Rocking It
In 2006, Biel rocked short hair and a beautiful blue dress on a red carpet event. Just a year before this picture, Esquire named her "Sexiest Woman Alive," at only 23-years-old. Esquire editor-in-chief David Granger thought she was the perfect candidate for the title that year.
"It seemed like it would be great -- having named Angelina Jolie sexiest woman of the year last year -- to try to come up with somebody who was on everyone's radar screen, but who was also fresh. It just seemed like Jessica Biel's moment." During this time, Biel was starring in Stealth, Elizabethtown, and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.
7 Blonde Hair, Don't Care
In 2008, Jessica Biel completely changed her look when she walked the BAFTAs red carpet, sporting bleach blonde hair and a gorgeous black dress. Now, most of the time actresses only dye their hair when they're doing it for a role because they have to change into a certain character and this was exactly the case.
For her role in Easy Virtue, Biel needed to be blonde, but luckily could wear a short, bruntette wig for Hole In The Paper Sky. Throughout her life, she has never gone back to fully blonde, only having blonde highlights occasionally, but she can rock any color.
6 Back In The 2010s-Justin Timberlake Relationship
Already an established actress, Jessica Biel really made a name for herself when she started dating Justin Timberlake. They first met in 2007 and had a very rocky start to their relationship. It was on-again, off-again as Timberlake has reportedly cheated. They tried to keep their relationship low-key, but eventually rumors started pulling in.
2011 was a crazy year for them. They broke up in March of that year, only to get back together in June. Then, to Jessica's surprise, the "Mirrors" singer popped the question over the Christmas holidays. She also starred in the romantic comedy, Valentine's Day.
5 Married Life
They didn't waste much time tying the knot. In October of 2012, Justin and Jessica became Mr. and Mrs. Timberlake in Italy. Jessica wore a beautiful, iconic custom pink Giambattista Valli Haute Couture gown. Her 7th Heaven co-star Beverly Mitchell was there, along with Jimmy Fallon and Andy Samberg on Timberlake's side. In 2012, along with getting married and planning a wedding, Biel starred in 4 movies that year, including Hitchcock. At just 30-years-old, Biel was on top of the world.
4 Jessica's Busy Schedule
Biel wasted no time after getting married. Her and Justin took a top-secret honeymoon and then went right back to work. In 2013, Biel voiced Brooke in Family Guy, which she did for two episodes, and then was on set for the thriller drama The Truth About Emanuel. Then in 2014, she appeared in an episode of New Girl. It was around this time that her acting career started to slow down. She went on tour with her husband and started turning towards producing.
3 Mom Life
In January 2015, Justin Timberlake announced they were expecting their first child on his birthday by posting a picture of him kissing Jessica Biel's pregnant belly. However, she did not slow down during that time. In fact, Biel starred in two movies- Accidental Love and Bleeding Heart all while bringing a child into this world. In April of that year, she welcomed her first child, a son Silas Randall. They couple introduced him on Instagram by supporting the Memphis Grizzlies, but have since then kept his face off of social media.
2 Biel In Bangs
Scaling back her acting career, Biel turned to producing in 2016. Her first major producing role was for The Book Of Love. And then again in 2017 with The Sinner, in which she starred in season one. Biel changed her hair for a role again and started sporting bangs. She has stated that she turned to producing because she "wanted to develop projects with challenging and interesting roles rather than wait for them to happen." After returning to the screen for Limetown in 2019, she became executive producer of Cruel Summer, Freeform's number one new hit show.
1 Jess In 2021
Now a mom of two, Jessica Biel has been living her best life. She will be turning 40 in 2022 and is embracing it. She welcomed her second child with Timberlake in July 2020, a son named Phineas, in which they kept secret for a long time. Biel has more producing and acting roles coming up, and it doesn't look like she is stopping or slowing down anytime soon. Being a wife, mom, actress and producer at the same time is what makes Jessica Biel a superwoman.