
Amy Adams
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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.
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Known For

Saturday Night Live

The Graham Norton Show

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Entertainment Tonight

King of the Hill

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The West Wing

That '70s Show

American Idol

SNL Digital Shorts

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The Oscars

Sesame Street

Charmed

Smallville

Providence

The Office

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Talking with Chris Hardwick

Critics Choice Awards

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

Her

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Underdog

Dr. Vegas

Catch Me If You Can

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Charlie Wilson's War

Cruel Intentions 2

The Master

American Hustle

The Fighter

The Wedding Date

Justice League

Julie & Julia

Trouble with the Curve

Standing Still

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Cape Fear

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

The Muppets

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Man of Steel

Vice

Nightbitch

Arrival

Enchanted

Hillbilly Elegy

Kings of America

Leap Year

Sharp Objects

Nocturnal Animals

The Woman in the Window

Disenchanted
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