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Anxious to get on with her acting career, precocious Juliette Lewis dropped out of high school at age 14, passed a proficiency course and became an emancipated minor a year later, unbound by child labor laws. Despite having no training, she had already landed daughter roles in the Showtime miniseries %22Home Fires%22 (1987) and the ABC series %22I Married Dora%22 (1987-88), and though she would return as a series regular in %22A Family For Joe%22 (NBC, 1990), starring Robert Mitchum, she found sitcoms constraining, resenting her directors' insistence that she do nothing with her hands while standing stiffly, geared for the punchline. The TV-movie %22Too Young to Die?%22 (NBC, 1990), which teamed her with longtime love interest Brad Pitt, provided a sample of the dramatic work to come, casting her as 15-year-old facing the death penalty for murder, but her feature debut as Chevy Chase's daughter in %22National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation%22 (1989) confined her to emotional territory very much in keeping with the sitcoms she loathed....
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