Amy Adams
Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy, and raised in Castle Rock, Colorado. She trained to be a ballerina, but at age 18, she found musical theater a better fit. Adams made her feature film debut with a supporting part in the 1999 satire Drop Dead Gorgeous. Her breakthrough came in the part of a loquacious pregnant woman in the independent comedy-drama film Junebug. Adams won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for playing a seductive con artist in the crime film American Hustle.
About Amy Adams in brief
Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy, and raised in Castle Rock, Colorado. She trained to be a ballerina, but at age 18, she found musical theater a better fit. Adams made her feature film debut with a supporting part in the 1999 satire Drop Dead Gorgeous. Her breakthrough came in the part of a loquacious pregnant woman in the independent comedy-drama film Junebug. Adams won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for playing a seductive con artist in the crime film American Hustle and the painter Margaret Keane in the biopic film Big Eyes. Her stage roles include the Public Theater’s revival of Into the Woods in 2012, in which she played the Baker’s Wife. In 2013, she began portraying Lois Lane in superhero films set in the DC Extended Universe. 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. She has appeared three times in annual rankings of the world’s highest-paid actresses. Her accolades include two Golden Globes and nominations for six Academy Awards and seven British Academy Film Awards. She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but has said that she valued her upbringing for teaching her love and compassion. Adams has compared her uninhibited early years with her siblings to Lord of the Flies. She did not go to college, which disappointed her parents and she later regretted not pursuing higher education. She used to wait tables on a basis to get up on stage before getting up to perform on stage.
She also worked as a greeter at a Gap store and as a waitress at Hooters, but left the job after she saved enough money to buy a car. Her mother became a semi-professional bodybuilder who took the children with her to the gym when she trained. Her father sang professionally in nightclubs and restaurants, and she has described going to her father’s shows and drinking Shirley Temples at the bar as among her fondest childhood memories. She was not academically inclined, but was interested in the creative arts and sang in the school choir. She competed in track and gymnastics, and trained as an apprentice at the local David Taylor Dance Company. After graduation, she and her mother moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she lived with her father and her sister. She later moved to Boulder, Colorado, and began her professional career as a dancer in a dinner theater production of A Chorus Line. Her first major role came in Steven Spielberg’s biopicFilm Catch Me If You Can, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, but she was unemployed for a year afterwards. She followed it by playing naïve, optimistic women in a series of films, such as the drama Doubt. Adams subsequently played stronger parts to positive reviews in the sports film The Fighter and the psychological drama film The Master. She has also appeared in the miniseries Sharp Objects, and Lynne Cheney in the satirical film Vice.
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