
Amy Adams
Amy 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, in addition to nominations for six Academy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Adams began her career as a dancer in dinner theater, 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 in television and took on "mean girl" parts in low-budget feature films. Her first major role came in Steven Spielberg's biopic Catch Me If You Can (2002), but she was unemployed for a year afterward. 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, was her first success as a leading lady. She followed this by playing other naïve, optimistic women in films like the drama Doubt (2008), and subsequently 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 the 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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 22.562 |
Birthday | 1974-08-20 |
Place of Birth | Vicenza, Veneto, Italy |
Also Known As | エイミー・ルー・アダムス, Amy Lou Adams, ایمی آدامز, |

2009

Doubt: Stage to Screen
7/1
A look at how the cast and crew brought "Doubt" from the stage to the screen.
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2005

Junebug
6.58/225
On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop t...
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2002

Catch Me If You Can
7.979/15858
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor...
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1999

Drop Dead Gorgeous
6.4/382
In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follow...
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2007

Enchanted
6.8/5437
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the str...
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2000

Cruel Intentions 2
5.1/392
After his precocious behavior has gotten him bounced out of one more in a string of exclusive private schools, 16-year old Sebastian Valmont has arriv...
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2002

The Slaughter Rule
5.9/36
A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.
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The Slaughter Rule

2007

Charlie Wilson's War
6.5/1505
In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afgh...
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2007

Underdog
5.5/716
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2021

Dear Evan Hansen
6.285/332
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2005

The Wedding Date
6.8/1192
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While...
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2009

Julie & Julia
6.704/2096
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose...
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2010

Leap Year
6.885/2028
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allo...
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2008

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
6.8/397
London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile...
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2002

Serving Sara
5.4/320
When Sara is served divorce papers while she is in New York, she is stunned. Not about to lose the fortune she amassed with her self-serving Texan hus...
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2006

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
6.4/1703
The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everyth...
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2004

The Last Run
4.2/10
When a young accountant is devastated after discovering his inspiringly beautiful girlfriend is cheating on him, his best friend, who's engaged to a g...
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2008

Sunshine Cleaning
6.6/768
A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuiti...
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Sunshine Cleaning

2000

Psycho Beach Party
5.694/90
Chicklet is a sixteen-year old tomboy who's desperate to be part of the in-crowd of Malibu beach surfers. She's the typical American girl - except for...
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2009

Moonlight Serenade
5.3/17
A jazz musician performs alongside a coat check girl with a beautiful voice in this musical drama from director Giancarlo Tallarico. By day Nate earns...
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Moonlight Serenade

2005

Standing Still
5.6/40
A chain reaction of confrontations and romantic encounters occurs when college friends reunite for one's wedding.
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2008

Doubt
7.2/1722
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
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2010

The Fighter
7.387/4390
Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turn...
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2013

Man of Steel
6.6/15256
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he w...
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Man of Steel

2010

Love and Distrust
3.7/27
This collection of five short films artfully portrays desire's ability to both empower and destroy those who encounter it.
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2009

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
6.1/6910
Hapless museum night watchman Larry Daley must help his living, breathing exhibit friends out of a pickle now that they've been transferred to the arc...
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2012

The Master
7.1/2978
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto th...
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The Invite
0/0
A middle-aged couple who are feeling stagnant in their relationship invite the younger and livelier couple from the apartment upstairs for a get-toget...
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2012

On the Road
5.6/844
Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows...
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2014

Big Eyes
6.983/3485
In the late 1950s and early '60s, artist Walter Keane achieves unbelievable fame and success with portraits of saucer-eyed waifs. However, no one real...
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2012

Trouble with the Curve
6.993/1602
Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. A...
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Trouble with the Curve

2006

Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party
6.1/9
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2013

Her
7.852/14388
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theod...
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2013

American Hustle
6.9/7309
A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
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2016

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
6/18108
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, mode...
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2014

Lullaby
6.2/55
Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During thi...
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The Holdout
0/0
A "propulsive thriller" from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Graham Moore.
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2014

Her: Love in the Modern Age
5.4/6
Her: Love In The Modern Age chronicles reactions to Spike Jonze's Oscar-nominated film, "Her." The documentary, directed by Lance Bangs, features stor...
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2017

Justice League
6.1/13053
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisti...
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2011

The Muppets
6.7/1582
When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his puppet brother, Wal...
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Klara and the Sun
0/0
Klara, an Artificial Friend designed to prevent loneliness, is purchased by a mother and her bright teen daughter, Josie. Josie, who suffers from a my...
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2016

Arrival
7.6/17985
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are...
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2016

Nocturnal Animals
7.421/7858
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, s...
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At the Sea
0/0
After a long rehabilitation, Laura returns to her family at their beach holiday home where she has to readjust to the complicated life she left behind...
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2006

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
6.8/1618
In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest...
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2002

Pumpkin
5.9/103
Carolyn's sorority sisters set their sights on the Sorority of the Year award and coaching challenged athletes is their ticket to the trophy. But when...
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Pumpkin

2000

The Chromium Hook
4.3/3
Remember those scary stories about "The hook-armed-man" you heard around the campfire when you were in Scouts? This hilarious and detailed "mocudramed...
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2006

The Ex
5.2/235
When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to ad...
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2022

Disenchanted
6.7/1096
Disillusioned with life in the city, feeling out of place in suburbia, and frustrated that her happily ever after hasn’t been so easy to find, Giselle...
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Disenchanted

2009

Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia
6.3/6
Behind the scenes of 'Julie & Julia'.
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2018

Vice
7/3367
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to poli...
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2014

Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project
7/3
The making of Spike Jonze's "Her."
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2021

The Woman in the Window
6/1974
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
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The Woman in the Window

2012

Wide-Awake
5.8/8
Ingénues, icons, action heroes, divas and the world's next great comedy star: 13 actresses who gave the dreamiest performances of 2012.
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Wide-Awake

2006

Pennies
7/13
The story of Charlotte Brown,a waitress and young single mother who will do anything for her daughter Jenny, and when push comes to shove, she does. W...
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Pennies

2020

Hillbilly Elegy
6.717/932
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
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Hillbilly Elegy

2015

The Making of Big Eyes
7/16
Behind the scenes of Big Eyes (2014)
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The Making of Big Eyes

2017

Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
7/2
A look at the source story, core human themes, the challenges and process of bringing the story to the screen, casting, creating realistic characters...
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Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'

2024

Nightbitch
5.8/206
A woman, thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she...
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Nightbitch

2013

The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
6.7/25
This feature-length documentary delves into the trilogy, opening with the inspiration and vision for the new Batman films and inching its way toward t...
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The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy

2021

Zack Snyder's Justice League
8.1/10123
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahu...
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Finding the Mother Tree
0/0
Ecologist Suzanne Simard discovers how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi.
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Lazy Susans
0/0
A group of moms forms a rock band.
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Gaming the System: The Making of 'Vice'
0/0
The cast and crew of Vice (2018) discuss the making of the film.
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