Amy Adams Filmography

Born:: August 20, 1975 in Italy
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: An actress with a knack for light comedy, Amy Adams was born in Italy and raised in Castle Rock, Colorado. After high school, she studied dance and worked in regional dinner theater until age 20, when she moved to Minnesota with her family after being spotted by a visiting Minneapolis producer...Read More

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Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian

Actors: Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Hank Azaria

Synopsis: Ben Stiller returns as Larry Daley, the unfortunate night watchman who continues to encounter living and breathing museum exhibits in Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian, 20th Century Fox's tent-pole sequel from director Shawn Levy. Scott Frank, Robert Ben Garant, and Thomas Lennon Read More

5/22/09
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Actors: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace, Ciarán Hinds, Shirley Henderson

Synopsis: A late-'30s-era London governess hired to work in the home of a high-profile nightclub chanteuse gets a taste of the good life when she is assigned the task of sorting out the singer's many unseemly affairs in a period comedy starring Frances McDormand and adapted from the novel by Winifred Read More

3/7/08
Sunshine Cleaning

Actors: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Jason Spevack, Steve Zahn

Synopsis: A thirty-year-old woman whose boundless potential was squandered through a series of failed relationships and a misguided effort to help her younger sister succeed in life finds the fruits of her labors finally coming together in director Christine Jeffs' dark family comedy. Her once bright future Read More

1/1/08
Doubt

Actors: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis

Synopsis: When the principal (Meryl Streep) of a Bronx Catholic High School accuses a popular priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of pedophilia, a young nun caught in between the feuding pair become hopelessly swept up in the ensuing controversy. John Patrick Shanley adapts his own play for the screen under the Read More

1/1/08
Saturday Night Live: Amy Adams

Actors: Amy Adams, Vampire Weekend

Synopsis: This 2008 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Amy Adams and features musical guest Vampire Weekend. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
Julie and Julia

Actors: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci

Synopsis: Norah Ephron adapts Julie Powell's autobiographical book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen with this Columbia Pictures production starring Amy Adams as an amateur chef who decides to cook every recipe in a cookbook from acclaimed celebrity chef Julia Child (played by Read More

1/1/08
Charlie Wilson's War

Actors: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: Produced by Tom Hanks, written by Aaron Sorkin, and directed by Mike Nichols, this adaptation of George Crile III's incendiary bestseller tells the remarkable story of the Texas congressman whose efforts to prevent the Red Army from overtaking Afghanistan eventually led to the collapse of the Read More

12/21/07
Enchanted

Actors: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall

Synopsis: Classic Disney animation meets contemporary urban chaos when a frightened princess is banished from her magical animated homeland to modern-day New York City in a romantic comedy penned by Bill Kelly (Blast from the Past), directed by Kevin Lima (Tarzan), and featuring music by composer Alan Menken Read More

11/21/07
Underdog

Actors: James Belushi, Peter Dinklage, Patrick Warburton, Alex Neuberger, Taylor Momsen

Synopsis: Bestowed with superpowers when a lab experiment goes unexpectedly awry, an average beagle becomes the savior of Capitol City as everyone's favorite canine do-gooder embarks on his first-ever live-action adventure. The maniacal Dr. Simon Barsinister (Peter Dinklage) was on the verge of a Read More

8/3/07
The Ex

Actors: Zach Braff, Amanda Peet, Jason Bateman, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: Acclaimed music-video director Jesse Peretz made his third feature with this comedy starring Zach Braff and Jason Bateman. Tom (Braff) is an aspiring chef whose wife Sofia (Amanda Peet) has just quit her high-paying job to stay home with their new baby. When it becomes abundantly clear that they Read More

12/29/06
Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

Actors: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, JR Reed, Troy Gentile, Ronnie James Dio

Synopsis: In this musical comedy-adventure starring self-proclaimed greatest band in the world Tenacious D, a pair of aspiring rock superstars attempt to convince the world of their true talents as they embark on a daring quest to acquire the supernaturally powered guitar pick that will finally allow them Read More

11/22/06
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Actors: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole, Michael Clarke Duncan

Synopsis: When America's number one NASCAR speed-demon is issued a direct challenge from a gay, French Formula One racer with a hunger for the top spot and a mean talent for tight-cornering, the race is on to become the number one man in all of NASCAR in a full throttle comedy starring Will Ferrell and Read More

8/4/06
Standing Still

Actors: Amy Adams, Adam Garcia

Synopsis: When a diverse group of lifelong friends comes together to celebrate the marriage of devoted couple Elise (Amy Adams) and Michael (Adam Garcia), the mixed-up relationships of the past pave the road to a weekend no one is likely to soon forget in the feature debut from filmmaker Matthew Cole Weiss. Read More

4/21/06
Junebug

Actors: Amy Adams, Embeth Davidtz, Benjamin McKenzie, Alessandro Nivola, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Celia Weston, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: Phil Morrison, who collaborated with screenwriter Angus MacLachlan for his acclaimed 1990 short, Tater Tomater, joins forces with MacLachlan again for his feature-film debut, Junebug. Junebug takes place in rural North Carolina. Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a sophisticated Chicagoan who owns a Read More

8/3/05
The Wedding Date

Actors: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: A gal who needs a date for a family function gets the best man money can buy in this romantic comedy. Kat Ellis (Debra Messing) is a woman in her mid-thirties living in New York City and has had more than her share of romantic problems -- enough so that she's gotten word that her younger Read More

2/4/05
The Last Run

Actors: Fred Savage, Amy Adams, Steven Pasquale, Andrea Bogart

Synopsis: Fred Savage (TV's The Wonder Years) stars in director Jonathan Segal's wild sex comedy The Last Run (2004). When genial and sweet-natured Steven Goodson (Savage) gets derisively dumped by his stellar girlfriend, his good buddy (Steven Pasquale) -- who is unhappily engaged to a blue-blooded girl (Amy Adams Read More

2004
Dr. Vegas [TV Series]

Actors: Rob Lowe, Joe Pantoliano, Tom Sizemore, Sarah Lancaster, Amy Adams

2004
Catch Me If You Can

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: A gifted forger and confidence man attempts to stay one step ahead of the lawman determined to bring him to justice in this comedy-drama from Steven Spielberg, based on a true story. Frank W. Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a 16-year-old high school student who finds himself emotionally cut Read More

12/25/02
Serving Sara

Actors: Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Bruce Campbell, Amy Adams, Vincent Pastore

Synopsis: A process server makes an unusual alliance with a beautiful but devious woman in this comedy. Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) is a former attorney whose career went bust when he picked up some clients who turned out to be associated with the Mafia. These days, Joe makes his living as a process server Read More

8/23/02
Pumpkin

Actors: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain, Marisa Coughlan

Synopsis: Adam Larson and Tony R. Abrams' directorial debut Pumpkin is an unconventional love story. College senior Carolyn McDuffy (Christina Ricci) agrees to coach handicapped athletes from a local town in order to help her sorority win an award. She and her sorority sister Jeanine (Dominique Swain) are Read More

6/28/02
The Slaughter Rule

Actors: Ryan Gosling, David Morse, Clea Duvall, David Cale, Eddie Spears

Synopsis: A teenager at a personal crossroads finds himself questioning the things that have given his life meaning in this independent coming-of-age drama. Roy Chutney (Ryan Gosling) is a high school senior in a small Montana town. Roy doesn't have an especially close relationship with his mother Read More

2002
Smallville: Craving

Synopsis: High school honor student Jodi Melville (Amy Adams) is convinced that her classmates dislike her because she is overweight. In her efforts to reduce, Jodi vows to subsist on a diet consisting only of the vegetables growing in her parents' greenhouse. Alas, those vegetables have been infected with Read More

2001
Psycho Beach Party

Actors: Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, Kimberley Davies, Matt Keeslar

Synopsis: Robert Lee King directs this wacky, campy fusion of teenaged surfer flicks and slasher sagas. Impossibly perky Florence (Lauren Ambrose) doesn't quite fit in at her thoroughly square high school in her seaside Southern California town -- that is, until she happens upon a band of ultra-hip surfer Read More

8/4/00
Cruel Intentions 2

Actors: Mimi Rogers, Keri Lynn Pratt, Amy Adams, Sarah Thompson, Robin Dunne

Synopsis: In this direct-to-video prequel to the 1999 feature Cruel Intentions, Kathryn Merte (Amy Adams) is the manipulative, cold-hearted daughter of social climber Tiffany Merte-Valmont (Mimi Rogers). Tiffany has just married again, and Kathryn is not getting along well with her new stepbrother Sebastian Read More

2000
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Family

Actors: Emma Caulfield

Synopsis: As Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) strengthens her resolve to protect supernaturally incarnated sister Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) from malevolent über-demon Glory (Clare Kramer), Tara (Amber Benson) fears that her friends will discover her own otherworldly origin. The crisis begins when Tara's Read More

2000
Drop Dead Gorgeous

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney, Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley, Brittany Murphy

Synopsis: So how far would you go to win a beauty pageant? That's the burning question of Drop Dead Gorgeous, in which the citizens of Mount Rose, Minnesota gear up for the year's biggest event, the Sarah Rose Miss Teen Princess America Pageant, in which Becky Leeman (Denise Richards) and Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst Read More

7/23/99