Amy Adams

Known for ActingBorn 1974-08-20 (age 51)Vicenza, Veneto, Italy

Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress. Known for both her comedic and dramatic roles, she has been featured three times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actresses. She has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards. She has been nominated for six Academy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Adams began her career as a dancer in dinner theatre, a pursuit she followed from 1994 to 1998. They made her film debut with a supporting part in the dark comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999). She made guest appearances on television and took on roles as the "mean girl" in low-budget feature films. Her first major role was in Steven Spielberg's biopic Catch Me If You Can (2002), but she was unemployed for a year afterwards. Her breakthrough came when she portrayed a loquacious pregnant woman in the independent comedy-drama Junebug(2005), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. The musical fantasy film Enchanted (2007), in which Adams played a cheerful princess-to-be, marked her first success in a leading role. She followed it by playing other naïve, optimistic women in films like the drama Doubt (2008). Subsequently, she played more assertive parts, earning positive reviews, in the sports film The Fighter (2010) and the psychological drama The Master (2012). From 2013 to 2017, she portrayed Lois Lane in superhero films set in the DC Extended Universe. She won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for playing a seductive con artist in the crime film American Hustle (2013) and painter Margaret Keane in the biopic Big Eyes (2014). Further acclaim came for playing a linguist in the science fiction film Arrival (2016), a self-harming reporter in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018), and Lynne Cheney in the satire Vice (2018). Adams' stage roles include the 2012 revival of Into the Woods at the Public Theatre and the 2022 West End revival of The Glass Menagerie. In 2014, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time and featured in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Adams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Disney 100: Remember That

The Frame

People's Choice Awards

The Office

Zack Snyder's Justice League

The West Wing

Smallville

Charmed

Talking with Chris Hardwick

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Catch Me If You Can

Her

Sharp Objects

That '70s Show

Critics Choice Awards

Arrival

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

Nocturnal Animals

The Fighter

King of the Hill

Conan

Doubt

The Graham Norton Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Master

Vice

Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'

The Making of Big Eyes

Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project

Trouble with the Curve

Big Eyes

Leap Year

American Hustle

Enchanted

Disenchanted

Hillbilly Elegy

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

The Wedding Date

E.B. White's Charlotte's Web

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

Julie & Julia

Sesame Street

Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane

The Muppets

Man of Steel

Saturday Night Live

Sunshine Cleaning

Providence