Happiest Season drops on Huluon November 25, started making a name for herself in Hollywood, appearing in high school shows and movies like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Can’t Hardly Wait, The Faculty, and She’s All That, and the drama Girl, Interrupted alongside Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.
She usually played “alternative” or “goth” girls, the type of character beloved by LGBTQ+ fans. But it was her role as a teen lesbian at a conversion camp in 2000’s classic indie comedy But I’m a Cheerleader that established her as a queer icon.
This December, Lionsgate is releasing a special 20th Anniversary Director’s Cut of the film.DuVall could have rested on her lesbian laurels, but instead, she returned to queer roles when she played a bisexual.