
Profile
Famous as :
ActressBirth Name :
Amy Lou AdamsBirth Date :
August 20, 1974Birth Place :
Vicenza, ItalyClaim to fame :
As Ashley Johnsten in "Junebug" (2005)
Biography
by AceShowbiz.com
feature entitled "Cruel Intentions 2" (2000) following a conflict between Fox Broadcasting and Columbia TriStar after just three episodes were shot.
Sticking it out when the goings get tough, Amy was next seen made guest appearances on a number of television series, including that of "That 70's Show" (1998), and "Charmed" (1998), before then played a bikini-clad seductress in the independent comedy, "Psycho Beach Party" (2000). More episodic television then followed, including appearances on "Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane" (2000), "Providence" (1998-2003) and "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer" (1996-2003).
In between those projects, Amy was seen in an episode of "Smallville" before then was billed to star as the girlfriend of a greedy cattleman, played by Bruce Campbell, trying to cheat his wife, Elizabeth Hurley, out of a divorce settlement in "Serving Sara" (2002). A tiny role in "Pumpkin" (2002) was followed by her eye-catching performance in Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can", featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. Rounded out the year with a guest spot on the perennial political drama, "The West Wing" (1999-2006), the starlet afterwards starred in the not-so-successful feature, "The Slaughter Rule," a bittersweet coming-of-age drama about a teenager, Ryan Gosling, cut from his high
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school football team, the only means of escape from his lonely rural existence.
However, it was not until the year of 2004 that Amy's career started to rebound. Kicked off the year with a recurring role on CBS' "Dr. Vegas", which didn't bring quite significant impact to her acting career, Amy next voiced several characters on a couple episodes of FOX's "King of the Hill" before then made a return to big screen feature, playing the self-involved half-sister of a woman, Debra Messing, on a desperate search for the right man in the 2005 "The Wedding Date", which unfortunately failed to attract much attention for the star instead of a merely solid performance.
Thanks to her next film feature of "Junebug" that Amy could taste the fruit of her hard work. A humorous drama about a British diplomat's daughter who travels from Chicago to the rural hill country of North Carolina to pursue a local, self-taught painter for her outsider art gallery, she takes this road-trip opportunity to meet her husband George's family, who happens to live only 30 minutes away. There's his flinty, judgmental mother Peg, his dour, taciturn father Eugene and his sullen, resentful, twenty something brother Johnny who,
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