David Shankbone · CC BY 3.0

Sobieski became a prominent teenage actress in the late 1990s, earning Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for playing the title role in the television miniseries Joan of Arc and appearing in Deep Impact, Never Been Kissed, and Eyes Wide Shut. In 2012 she stepped away from acting to raise her children and pursue painting and sculpture, building a second career as a visual artist on her own terms rather than continuing to trade on early fame.