Amy Adams
Acting
Born 1974-08-20
Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
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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.
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Smallville
The Office
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Late Show with David Letterman
The Kelly Clarkson Show
King of the Hill
The West Wing
Saturday Night Live
Conan
The Graham Norton Show
Charmed
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The View
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Golden Globe Awards
That '70s Show
American Idol
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Man of Steel
People's Choice Awards
Justice League
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Arrival
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
The Oscars
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Providence
Catch Me If You Can
Sharp Objects
Her
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Enchanted
American Hustle
The Fighter
Julie & Julia
The Muppets
Nocturnal Animals
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Disenchanted
The Master
Vice
Leap Year
Entertainment Tonight
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
The Frame
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
Trouble with the Curve
The Woman in the Window
Doubt
E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
Big Eyes
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