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Amy Adams

First Name: Amy
Last Name: Adams
Ethnicity: Italy
Nationality: American
Full Name: Amy Lou Adams
Date of Birth: 20 August 1974
Birthplace: Vicenza, Italy
Height: 5'3¾" (162cm)
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Red
Star Sign: Leo

Biography:
An actress with a knack for light comedy, Amy Adams was born in Italy and raised in Castle Rock, Colorado.
After high school, she studied dance and worked in regional dinner theater until age 20, when she moved to
Minnesota with her family after being spotted by a visiting Minneapolis producer and recruited to work in his
dinner theater there. She landed her first film role in the satiric 1999 comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous, which was,
appropriately enough, set in Minnesota. After appearing in the independent comedy Psycho Beach Party, Adams
made guest appearances on a number of television series, including That 70s Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
and The West Wing; she was also cast as a regular in Manchester Prep, a TV spin-off of the hit film Cruel
Intentions. Manchester Prep, however, was never aired when its network decided that the show's sexual content
was too strong for television, although several episodes were eventually re-edited into a direct-to-video
feature entitled Cruel Intentions 2. 2002 proved to be a very busy year for Adams, who appeared in no fewer
than four features, including the eagerly anticipated Catch Me if You Can, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom
Hanks.

Adams took a 2 year break following Catch Me If You Can, reemerging in 2004 to appear with Fred Savage in the
low-key comedy/drama The Last Run. The next year she took a substantial role in the romantic comedy The
Wedding Date, but the part that proved to be a career-shaping one was the very innocent, very pregnant Ashley
in Phil Morrison's independent film Junebug. Adams was adored by audiences and praised by critics for her
quirky, sensitive performance, and she netted a Best Supporting Actress nomination in the process.
The young actress rounded out 2005 with a brief series of regular appearances on the wildly popular TV comedy
The Office. In 2006 Amy co-starred in the NASCAR comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, alongside
Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen. 2007 provided a big boost to her lead-actress stock in the form of
Disney's Enchanted, a Splash-like confection in which Adams played a fairytale princess inadvertently plopped
into the alternate universe of modern-day New York City. The family-friendly Thanksgiving release racked up
considerable praise and millions of box-office dollars. Adams picked up her second Academy Award nomination in
2008 for her work in John Patrick Shanley's adaptation of his award winning play Doubt. In addition to that
honor, she scored nods from the Screen Actors Guild, and the Hollywood Foreign Press. The following year,
Adams teamed with Doubt star Meryl Streep again, to play a young amateur chef who attempts to cook every
recipe in a massive cookbook by Julia Child (Streep) in the Nora Ephron-directed Julie and Julia.

Filmography:

2012 Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can
2011 On the Road
2011 The Muppets
2010 The Fighter
2010 Love & Distrust
2010/I Verlobung auf Umwegen
2009 Moonlight Serenade
2009 Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia
2009 Julie & Julia
2009 Nachts im Museum 2
2008/I Glaubensfrage
2008 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
2008 Sunshine Cleaning
2007 Der Krieg des Charlie Wilson
2007 Verwünscht
2007 Underdog - Unbesiegt weil er fliegt
2006 Fast Track
2006 Kings of Rock - Tenacious D
2006 Pennies
2006 Ricky Bobby - König der Rennfahrer
2005-2006 Das Büro
2005/II Standing still - Blick zurück nach vorn Elise
2005 Junikäfer
2005 Wedding Date
2004 Dr. Vegas
2004 King of the Hill
2004 The Last Run
2002 Catch me if you can - Mein Leben auf der Flucht
2002 The West Wing - Im Zentrum der Macht
2002 Mann umständehalber abzugeben! oder: Scheiden ist süß
2002 Pumpkin
2002 The Slaughter Rule
2001 Smallville
2000 Eiskalte Engel 2
2000 Buffy - Im Bann der Dämonen
2000 Providence
2000 Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane
2000 The Chromium Hook
2000 Charmed
2000 Die Wilden 70er
2000 Psycho Beach Party
2000 The Peter Principle
1999 Gnadenlos schön

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