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Amy Adams

Milestones

  • Birthplace: Vicenza, Italy
  • Birthday: August 20, 1975
  • 2009

    Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (“Doubt”)

  • 2009

    Played a single mother who starts her own crime scene clean-up business in the independent film, "Sunshine Cleaning"

  • 2009

    Portrayed Amelia Earhart in the comedy, "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian"

  • 2009

    Portrayed author Julie Powell in Nora Ephron's "Julie & Julia"; screenplay is adapted from Powell's Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen and Julia Child's My Life in France

  • 2008

    Cast as Sister James in the feature adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's play "Doubt"

  • 2008

    Co-starred in the romantic comedy "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day"

  • 2008

    Nominated for the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (“Doubt”)

  • 2008

    Nominated for the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (“Doubt”)

  • 2007

    Cast as a Princess in Disney's modern-day animation and live-action fairy tale, "Enchanted"; earned a Golden Globe nomination for Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

  • 2007

    Cast in "Charlie Wilson's War" as the title character's chief of staff

  • 2006

    Co-starred in the indie comedy "Standing Still"

  • 2005

    Starred in the romantic comedy "The Wedding Date," opposite Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney

  • 2005

    Starred in the southern drama "Junebug"; earned Oscar and SAG nominations for Best Supporting Actress

  • 2004

    Cast in the short-lived medical drama "Dr. Vegas" (CBS)

  • 2002

    Cast opposite Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley in the romantic comedy "Serving Sara"

  • 2002

    Played Leonardo DiCaprio’s dimwitted fiancée, Brenda in "Catch Me if You Can"

  • 2000

    Appeared in the independent comedy "Psycho Beach Party," a spoof of 1960's Beach Party/Gidget surfing movies

  • 2000

    Made guest appearances on "That 70s Show" (FOX) and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (UPN)

  • 2000

    Starred in the direct-to-video feature "Cruel Intentions 2"; originally filmed as a TV spin-off of the hit film "Cruel Intentions," titled "Manchester Prep" that was never aired

  • 1999

    Made feature debut in the satiric comedy "Drop Dead Gorgeous," opposite Denise Richards and Kirsten Dunst

  • Discovered by a movie producer, while working at a dinner theater in Chanhassen, Minnesota

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