Amanda Peet

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BIRTHDAY

January 11, 1972

New York, NY

RECENT CREDITS

2012 (FILM) Nov. 13, 2009

Battle for Terra (FILM) May. 1, 2009

What Doesn't Kill You (FILM) Dec. 12, 2008

The X-Files: I Want to Believe (FILM) Jul. 25, 2008

Martian Child (FILM) Nov. 2, 2007

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BIOGRAPHY

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A native New Yorker who studied with famed acting teacher Uta Hagen as a teen, Peet launched her career in a 1995 off-Broadway revival of Awake and Sing!. After a brief stint on One Life to Live she moved to Hollywood. With her strong, perfectly plucked eyebrows and sparkling blue eyes, Peet never lacked for work, appearing in a succession of romantic comedies before landing her breakthrough role as a relationship-challenged twentysomething on the dramedy Jack & Jill. During her tenure she racked up multiple big-screen credits (her turn in the 2000 comedy The Whole Nine Yards earned her a bevy of fans). But instead of settling for being eye candy, Peet began tackling challenging supporting roles that made the most of her intelligence, including a junkie in the indie Igby Goes Down, a hellish bride-to-be in Saving Silverman and a grieving mother in Syriana. In 2006 she took time out from her jam-packed schedule to make her Broadway debut in the 2006 revival of Barefoot in the Park. The production wasn't a success, commercially or critically, but she soon bounced back, landing a flashy part as a TV-network president in Aaron Sorkin's series set behind the scenes of a late-night sketch-comedy show, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

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