Amanda Michelle Seyfried is an American actress, singer, and model. She gained prominence following her feature film debut in the teen comedy Mean Girls. She also had a recurring role as Lilly Kane on the UPN television series Veronica Mars. In 2011, she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in Les Misérables.
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Amanda Michelle Seyfried is an American actress, singer, and model. She gained prominence following her feature film debut in the teen comedy Mean Girls. She also had a recurring role as Lilly Kane on the UPN television series Veronica Mars. She went on to have supporting roles in independent films such as Nine Lives and Alpha Dog. She has also had leading roles in a number of successful films, starring in the musical feature film Mamma Mia! and the horror film Solstice. She is of mostly German descent, with smaller amounts of English, Scots-Irish, and Welsh ancestry. She was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and graduated from William Allen High School in 2003. Her older sister, Jennifer, is a musician in the Philadelphia organ-driven rock band Love City. She had a role in the short film Gypsies & Thieves, written and directed by Rodrigo García, and had a lead role as Chrissy in the film Wildfire. In 2005, she appeared in 10 episodes of the television series Samantha, a lead character written specifically for her in one of the nine parts of the film. For the same year, she played the lead character in the independent film Tramps & Thieves. She won an award from the Locarno International Film Festival, Best Actress, for Best Actress in a Short Film by a Female Actor or Actress. In 2011, she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for her role in Les Misérables.
She played Joni Stafford on the ABC soap All My Children from 2002 to 2003. In 2003, she auditioned to play the role of Regina George in Mean Girls; the role eventually went to Rachel McAdams. She appeared in the mystery thriller Gone, the biographical drama Lovelace, the romantic comedy The Big Wedding, the Seth MacFarlane comedies A Million Ways to Die in the West and Ted 2, the fantasy film Pan, the dramas Fathers and Daughters and First Reformed, the comedy The Clapper, the science fiction film Anon, the crime comedy Gringo, the musical Mammamia Mia! Here We Go Again, and the comedy drama The Art of Racing in the Rain. She has occasionally done voice-over work in animation such as Epic and Scoob!. She stopped modeling when she was 17, and worked as a waitress in a retirement community. She enrolled at Fordham University in the fall of 2003, but did not attend after being offered her role as Karen Smith, Regina’s dim-witted friend and sidekick, in the movie Mean Girls, which was a box office success, earning over US$129 million in its theatrical run. In 2006, she had a supporting role in Wildfire, a short film written by writer Rebecca Tramps.
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