Amanda Peet Jacqueline "Jack" Barrett in Jack & Jill
Birth name: Amanda Peet Biography for Amanda PeetAmanda Peet grew up in New York with her older sister and their parents; Charles, a lawyer; and Penny, a social worker. She made an unconventional stage debut at the age of three, when she jumped onto the stage during a play. Yet, despite this early start, she later studied acting more as a hobby than anything else. She studied history at Columbia University, where a drama professor convinced her to audition for acting teacher Uta Hagen, with whom she later went on to study for a four-year period. During this time, she participated in the off-Broadway revival of Clifford Odets's "Awake and Sing." She supported herself during the audition phase of her career by working as a waitress and with the residual checks she received from a Skittles candy commercial. Perseverance and hard work paid off, and, in 1995, she was cast in a guest-starring role on the hit series "Law & Order" (1990).
Her feature film debut came in 1995 with the movie Animal Room (1995). For a while afterward, Amanda continued to find steady work but also found herself appearing in a depressingly large number of indie films that were never picked up for distribution. She did, however, meet her boyfriend Brian Van Holt on the set of indie movie Whipped (2000). Her turn as the ditzy hit-woman with the heart of gold in the hit comedy The Whole Nine Yards (2000), opposite Bruce Willis, took her from supporting role status to leading lady. That same year she was voted one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by "People" Magazine.
Daughter of a famous New York lawyer, she appears for the first time in the role of a lawyer in the credits of the series "New York District". A personality that corresponds to him very little since the beautiful will spend all the rest of her career to embody the bitches of service. Amanda Peet thus seeks to kill Matthew Perry, his boss, in the comedy "My neighbor the killer" before turning to ridicule Ashton Kutcher in the poster of "7 years of seduction". Her smile "Teeth forward" has her elected "Most beautiful woman of the year 2000" by People magazine and finally seduces Woody Allen then George Clooney who definitely imposes it on the big screen, in "Melinda & Melinda" as well as " Syriana ". On the small skylight, she finally finds her best friend "Chandler" by joining the cast of "Studio 60" at the start of the 2006 school year. A sitcom in which she likes to interpret ... her manager.
Amanda Peet is an American actress born January 11, 1972 in New York, New York. She began her career in the 1990s and has since played in many films, television series and plays. Among her best known roles, you can cite his performance in the film "Something's Gotta Give" by Nancy Meyers, in which she plays the role of sailor Klein, the girlfriend of the main character interpreted by Jack Nicholson. She also played in television series like "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and "The Good Wife". Apart from her acting career, Peet is also an activist for children's rights and actively supports various philanthropic causes. She is married to the writer and producer David Benioff, with whom she has three children. Filmography
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