Editing Neve Campbell (section)

== Early life ==
Campbell was born in [[Guelph]], Ontario, Canada, on October 3, 1973. Campbell's Dutch mother, Marnie (''née'' Neve), is a yoga instructor and psychologist from Amsterdam.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Neve Campbell Family |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/27830%7C0/Neve-Campbell/#family-companions |access-date=March 11, 2023 |website=[[Turner Classic Movies|TCM]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823163711/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/27830%7C0/Neve-Campbell/ |archive-date=August 23, 2018 |url-status=live |quote=Marnie Campbell. Yoga instructor. Divorced from Campbell's father; remarried; Dutch.}}</ref> She descends from [[Sephardic Jews]] who immigrated to the Netherlands and [[Conversion to Catholicism|converted to Catholicism]].<ref name="ynw">{{Cite news |last=Kahn |first=Robert |date=December 29, 2003 |title=Love Matches Up 2 Tennis Couples |work=Newsday |url=http://www.joonbug.com/Images/press/articles/newsday-12-29-03.htm |access-date=October 18, 2010 |quote='I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.' That's Neve Campbell at Elaine's after the premiere of 'The Company,' explaining to Webster Hall's Baird Jones that 'Neve' was a family name that was first used by her ancestors, Sephardic Jews who later emigrated to the Netherlands and converted to Catholicism. |archive-date=March 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311071417/http://www.joonbug.com/Images/press/articles/newsday-12-29-03.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> Her Scottish father, Gerry Campbell, immigrated to Canada from his native Glasgow,<ref name="highbeamref1">{{Cite news |last1=Findlay |first1=Jane |last2=Lorna Hughes |date=February 20, 2000 |title=Screen Star's Scots Dream; Neve Campbell Just Can't Wait to Visit the Land of Her Father |work=The Sunday Mail |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/SCREEN+STAR%27S+SCOTS+DREAM%3B+NEVE+CAMPBELL+JUST+CAN%27T+WAIT+TO+VISIT+THE...-a060595010 |access-date=December 10, 2007 |archive-date=October 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241029023232/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/SCREEN+STAR'S+SCOTS+DREAM;+NEVE+CAMPBELL+JUST+CAN'T+WAIT+TO+VISIT+THE...-a060595010 |url-status=live}}</ref> and taught high school drama classes at Lorne Park Secondary School in [[Mississauga]], Ontario. Campbell's maternal grandparents ran a theatre company in the Netherlands, and her paternal grandparents were also performers. Campbell has an older brother, [[Christian Campbell]], and two younger half-brothers, Alex Campbell and Damian McDonald. Her parents divorced when she was two.

At age six, she saw a performance of ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' and decided she wanted to take [[ballet]] classes, enrolling at the Erinvale<!-- https://www.mississauga.com/opinion/contributors/erinvale-school-of-dance-celebrates-40-years/article_4d4aba92-2132-5cb4-98a5-17e5dc82d251.html --> School of Dance. She later moved into residence at the [[National Ballet School of Canada]], training there and appearing in performances of ''The Nutcracker'' and ''[[Sleeping Beauty (ballet)|Sleeping Beauty]]''.<ref name="highbeamref1"/> After accumulating numerous dance-related injuries,<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 26, 2024 |title=For Neve Campbell, A Painful Stretch |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/2004/01/11/for-neve-campbell-a-painful-stretch/853a9050-8bb6-49b9-8a54-9037b8f36ff7/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> she retired from ballet and took up acting at age 15, performing in ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)|The Phantom of the Opera]]'' at the [[Canon Theatre]] in Toronto while attending [[John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute]] in Guelph,<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Ticat fan's guide to Guelph |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/a-ticat-fan-s-guide-to-guelph-1.1305720 |access-date=July 16, 2018 |publisher=CBC News |archive-date=June 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629140442/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/a-ticat-fan-s-guide-to-guelph-1.1305720 |url-status=live}}</ref> where she trained in acting and worked in theatre. One of her classmates was actress [[Tara Strong]].<ref>{{Cite web |author1=Tara Strong (@tarastrong) |author1-link=Tara Strong |date=January 22, 2022 |url=https://twitter.com/tarastrong/status/1484984885156536321 |title=#malibudreamin with this beauty #NeveCampbell friends since high school #Torontokids 🇨🇦 |access-date=October 1, 2022 |via=Twitter |archive-date=December 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221217204558/https://twitter.com/tarastrong/status/1484984885156536321 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Campbell's early work included a 1980s [[Eaton's]] department store Christmas commercial and a 1991 [[Coca-Cola]] commercial; she promoted the latter's sponsorship on [[Bryan Adams]]' Waking Up the Nation Tour (1991–1992).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Before They Were Stars: Neve Campbell in a Coca-Cola Commercial (with Bryan Adams!) |url=https://www.the-back-row.com/blog/2012/09/29/before-they-were-stars-neve-campbell-in-a-coca-cola-commercial-with-bryan-adams/ |access-date=August 24, 2021 |website=The Back Row |archive-date=August 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824151941/https://www.the-back-row.com/blog/2012/09/29/before-they-were-stars-neve-campbell-in-a-coca-cola-commercial-with-bryan-adams/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Neve Campbell talks 'House of Cards' (and the Coke ad she made at 17) |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/neve-campbell-talks-house-cards-coke-ad-she-made-17-t112224 |access-date=August 24, 2021 |website=TODAY.com |date=June 2017 |archive-date=August 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824151940/https://www.today.com/popculture/neve-campbell-talks-house-cards-coke-ad-she-made-17-t112224 |url-status=live}}</ref>