Amy Adams

Amy Lou Adams ( born August 20, 1974 in Vicenza, Italy ) is an American actress. She performed since the late 1990s in over 30 film and television roles in appearance, mostly in comedies. Notoriety she achieved mainly with the representation innocently naive characters in movies like Junebug (2005), Enchanted ( 2007), Doubt (2008). Adams is one of the best-paid actresses in Hollywood and has been nominated five times for an Oscar. 2014 she won for her starring role in the feature film American Hustle a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award.

Biography

Childhood and education

Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, where her father was stationed as a U.S. soldier. She grew up as a middle child of seven children in a Mormon family in rural Castle Rock in the U.S. state of Colorado. Her father, himself an actor, wrote in his spare time plays that were performed in the family circle. So Adams was already a young age with acting in touch. She attended high school in Douglas County. Although Amy Adams was not one of the cheerleading team or the theater course at their school, but regularly took after high school ballet classes and stood on the stage. After leaving school she worked in a so-called Dinner Theater (one amusement, restaurant meals with theater productions connects ) in Denver, Colorado, and briefly as a hostess and waitress at the well-known U.S. restaurant chain Hooters system. After Adams replaced a colleague in Minnesota and worked in the Chanhassen Dinner Theater, where she performed among others in a performance of the Broadway musical Good News.

When Adams was preparing for a production of Brigadoon, a well-known musical from 1947, she received her first film role in 1999. In the satire Drop Dead Gorgeous by director Michael Patrick Jann is on the side of Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards and Kirstie Alley seen in a supporting role as simple-minded cheerleader Leslie, participating in a local beauty contest. Inspired by fellow actress Kirstie Alley pulled the 1.65 m tall young actress to Los Angeles. Two months after her move Adams received a supporting role in the television series Manchester Prep, a prequel of the film Cruel Intentions from the year 1999, in which she portrayed the character of Sarah Michelle Gellar. Because of disputes between the production company Fox Broadcasting and Columbia TriStar, the series was canceled after only three episodes wacky, revised in the editing room and marketed as Cruel Intentions 2 in the United States directly to video.

Success with Spielberg, Junebug and Doubt

After the failure of Manchester Prep Adams received supporting roles in Robert Lee King's horror-comedy Psycho Beach Party and the 36 - minute short film The Chromium Hook, in which director James Stanger is approaching in a small town the truth about the popular Urban Legends. There were other minor roles in the sports drama The Slaughter Rule, Pumpkin with Christina Ricci and in the torn from the criticism romantic comedy to give man the circumstances or divorce is sweet with Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley in the leading roles, before 2002, the casting director Deborah Zane the charismatic actress was attentive. Zane hit Steven Spielberg right to occupy Amy Adams in his film project Catch Me If You Can. Here it acts as nurse Brenda, the @ venues at the same time as the object of desire of Leonardo DiCaprio. The collaboration with Steven Spielberg helped Adams to break through in the film business and let it be known to a worldwide cinema audience.

It was followed by the main female roles in Jonathan Sagalls dramedy The Last Run and the drama Standing Still - look back ahead, before she landed the recurring role of Alice Doherty in the CBS television series Dr. Vegas. The series about a hospital doctor (played by Rob Lowe ), who leaves his job to the nail in order to medically well-heeled guests to take care of in a casino in Las Vegas was little success and Dr. Vegas was discontinued after one year. After a role in the comedy The Wedding Date Debra Messing as a half-sister of the previous highlight followed in their career. In the resulting 2005 independent film Junebug by Phil Morrison Amy Adams plays the heavily pregnant, childlike Ashley from rural North Carolina, the visit from her brother- cosmopolitan gets together with his wife and dreams to give her baby the unusual name Junebug. Amy Adams has won numerous film awards for her performance, including an Academy Award nomination in 2006, the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival 2005 and the awards of the Film Critics Association of San Francisco, the Southeastern Film Critics Association, the National Society of Film Critics and the Independent Spirit Award, each as best Supporting Actress.

In the Will Ferrell a rebellious Nascar king of racers - From the press and critics as " Queen of Independent Films " ( " Indie Queen" ) is celebrated, the actress is working with the bright red hair and 2008 at eight film projects, including Adam McKay's comedy Ricky Bobby driver mimes, and Kevin Lima's Enchanted, in which she plays the female lead role opposite Patrick Dempsey. In the romantic comedy fantasy Adams took over again with success the part of the innocent - naive and acts as a princess who is conjured by an evil witch from a cartoon in the New York of today. For their " perfectly - treuäugige " presentation, which included also singing and dancing, she received the 2008 Saturn Award and a nomination for the Golden Globe. For television work of Adams, who says, inter alia, for Heidi Klum and film director Alexander Payne, include guest appearances in the television series Buffy - The Vampire Slayer (2000 ) Smallville (2001), The West Wing - The West Wing ( 2002) or The Office ( 2005 and 2006).

Currently, Adams was named one of the U.S. Forbes magazine's best-paid actresses in Hollywood. Between June 2007 and June 2008, she received fees amounting to 14.5 million U.S. dollars, ranking behind Cameron Diaz, Keira Knightley, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jodie Foster, Sarah Jessica Parker and Meryl Streep in ninth place. A year later, she starred in John Patrick Shanley's drama filming Doubt (2008) opposite Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman the role of a young nun and a history teacher at a Catholic school, which is confronted with abuse allegations against the clergy. The part of James 's sister brought her again nominations for the most important film awards, including the Golden Globe and Oscar, a. In 2009, she starred in the comedy Night at the Museum 2, in which they, the aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart embodied alongside Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. Also in 2009 she starred in the film Julie & Julia in the role of Julie Powell. 2010 was followed by a supporting role in David O. Russell's Boxer drama The Fighter opposite Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Melissa Leo. The supporting role of Charlene Fleming brought her again in 2011, a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination. In May 2012, she got the lead role as Libby Day in Gilles Paquet - Brenner's thriller film adaptation of Gillian Flynn New York Times bestseller Dark Places.

Personal

Adams is in a relationship with one years older castmates Darren Le Gallo since 2002. Since 15 May 2010, the couple has a daughter.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Oscar:

2006: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles
2009: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Doubt
2011: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Fighter
2013: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Master
2014: nominated for Best Actress for American Hustle

Golden Globe:

2008: nominated for Best Actress - Comedy / Musical for Enchanted
2009: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Doubt
2011: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Fighter
2013: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Master
2014: Best Actress - Comedy / Musical for American Hustle

British Academy Film Awards:

2009: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Doubt
2011: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Fighter
2014: nominated for Best Actress for American Hustle

Chicago Film Critics Association Award:

2006: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles
2008: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Doubt

Critics' Choice Movie Awards:

2006: Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles
2008: nominated in the categories of Best Actress and Best Original Song ( " That's How You Know" ) for Enchanted
2009: nominated in the category Best Acting Ensemble for Doubt
2014: Best Actress in a comedy for American Hustle

Florida Film Critics Circle Award:

2005: Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles

Gotham Awards:

2005: Breakthrough Award for June Beetles

Independent Spirit Awards:

2006: Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles

National Society of Film Critics Awards:

2006: Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles
2013: Best Supporting Actress for The Master

Online Film Critics Society Awards:

2006: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles

San Francisco Film Critics Circle:

2005: Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles

Southeastern Film Critics Association Award:

2005: Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles

Satellite Awards:

2005: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles
2007: nominated for Best Actress - Comedy / Musical for Enchanted

Saturn Award:

2008: Best Actress for Enchanted

Screen Actors Guild Awards:

2006: nominated for Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles
2009: nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best in category Acting Ensemble for Doubt

Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards:

2005: Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles

Sundance Film Festival:

2005: Special Jury Prize for June Beetles

Vancouver Film Critics Circle:

2006: Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award:

2005: Best Supporting Actress for June Beetles

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