Amy Adams
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1974-08-20
Place of Birth
Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
Amy Adams
Biography
Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress. Known for 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, and 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, which she pursued from 1994 to 1998, and 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 "mean girl" parts 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), where Adams played a cheerful princess-to-be, was her first success as a leading lady. She followed it by playing other naïve, optimistic women in films like the drama Doubt (2008). Subsequently, she played more assertive parts to 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 Public Theater's revival of Into the Woods in 2012 and the West End theatre revival of The Glass Menagerie in 2022. 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.
Also Known For
Doubt: Stage to Screen
Apr 07, 2009
Junebug
Aug 03, 2005
Catch Me If You Can
Dec 16, 2002
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Jul 23, 1999
Enchanted
Nov 20, 2007
Cruel Intentions 2
Nov 09, 2000
The Slaughter Rule
Jan 11, 2002
Charlie Wilson's War
Dec 19, 2007
Underdog
Aug 03, 2007
Dear Evan Hansen
Sep 24, 2021
The Wedding Date
Feb 04, 2005
Julie & Julia
Aug 06, 2009
Leap Year
Jan 08, 2010
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Mar 07, 2008
Serving Sara
Aug 23, 2002
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Aug 04, 2006
The Last Run
Jan 01, 2004
Sunshine Cleaning
Jan 18, 2008
Psycho Beach Party
Aug 06, 2000
Moonlight Serenade
Dec 08, 2009
Standing Still
Jan 02, 2005
Doubt
Dec 12, 2008
The Fighter
Dec 10, 2010
Man of Steel
Jun 12, 2013
Love and Distrust
Aug 16, 2010
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
May 20, 2009
The Master
Sep 14, 2012
On the Road
May 22, 2012
Big Eyes
Dec 24, 2014
Trouble with the Curve
Sep 21, 2012
Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party
May 30, 2006
Her
Dec 18, 2013
American Hustle
Dec 03, 2013
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Mar 23, 2016
Lullaby
Jun 13, 2014
The Holdout
Her: Love in the Modern Age
Jan 17, 2014
Justice League
Nov 15, 2017
The Muppets
Nov 22, 2011
Klara and the Sun
Arrival
Nov 10, 2016
Nocturnal Animals
Nov 04, 2016
At the Sea
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Nov 22, 2006
Pumpkin
Jun 28, 2002
The Chromium Hook
May 13, 2000
The Ex
Dec 01, 2006
Disenchanted
Nov 18, 2022
Vice
Dec 25, 2018
Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project
May 13, 2014
The Woman in the Window
May 13, 2021
Wide-Awake
Dec 07, 2012
Pennies
Oct 20, 2006
Hillbilly Elegy
Nov 09, 2020
The Making of Big Eyes
Apr 14, 2015
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
Feb 14, 2017
Nightbitch
Dec 06, 2024
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Sep 24, 2013
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Mar 18, 2021
Lazy Susans
Providence
Jan 08, 1999
King of the Hill
Jan 12, 1997
The Office
Mar 24, 2005
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
Charmed
Oct 07, 1998
Smallville
Oct 16, 2001
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Dr. Vegas
Sep 24, 2004
Manchester Prep
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Mar 10, 1997
Critics Choice Awards
Jan 22, 2001
The West Wing
Sep 22, 1999
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
King of the Hill
Jan 12, 1997
King of the Hill
Jan 12, 1997
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Talking with Chris Hardwick
Apr 09, 2017
American Idol
Jun 11, 2002
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Mar 23, 2015
Sharp Objects
Jul 08, 2018
Kings of America
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
Sesame Street
Nov 10, 1969
The View
Aug 11, 1997
The Frame
Apr 09, 2013
Entertainment Tonight
Sep 15, 1981
King of the Hill
Jan 12, 1997
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane
Jan 17, 1999
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Aug 02, 2015
DP/30: Conversations About Movies
Nov 01, 2007
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Mar 23, 2015
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
Jan 04, 2008
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
That '70s Show
Aug 23, 1998
Conan
Nov 08, 2010
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Cape Fear
