| Amy Adams There is definitely something very special about Amy Adams. She’s a versatile talent and her approach to acting is natural and fresh. On screen she is absolutely irresistible – she simply sparkles! Perhaps co-star Meryl Streep says it best: “Amy has a little light on inside her that burns — sometimes a soft light, sometimes a hot little blue flame, but you are aware always of the light. It is her immediacy as an actress, that present quality that makes her special.” 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 and recruited to work in his dinner theater there. She landed her first film role in the satiric 1999 comedy Drop_Dead_Gorgeous, which was, appropriately enough, set in Minnesota. Adams decided on a professional acting career, and appeared in several films, including Catch Me If You Can and Cruel Intentions 2. She has also guest-starred in such television shows as The Office, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, The West Wing and Smallville She has also done small films, such as Psycho Beach Party. Adams has received critical acclaim for her role in the 2005 film Junebug. Among the awards she has won for the role are the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the National Society of Film Critics award for "Best Supporting Actress" and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. Additionally, she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture. In January 2006, Adams was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role. Amy has twice won the Delta's Choice Award - both times for Best Supporting Actress - the first in 2008 for Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and again in 2009 for Doubt. Additionally She has a 2010 Delta nomination for The Fighter - again in the Best Supporting Actress category Awards 2010 Delta 99 Most Desirable Women #9 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - BSFC Award Best Ensemble Cast for: The Fighter Central Ohio Film Critics Association - COFCA Award Best Ensemble for: The Fighter Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Sierra Award Best Supporting Actress for: The Fighter 2009 Delta 99 Most Desirable Women #10 Delta's Choice Awards - Best Supporting Actress for: Doubt Palm Springs International Film Festival - Spotlight Award for: Doubt 2008 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films - Saturn Award Best Actress for: Enchanted Delta's Choice Awards - Best Supporting Actress for: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Delta 99 Most Desirable Women #8 National Board of Review Awards - Best Ensemble Cast for Doubt Palm Springs International Film Festival - Spotlight Award for Doubt 2007 Saturn Awards - Best Actress for Enchanted Delta 99 Most Desirable Women Debuted at #37 2005 Gotham Awards - Breakthrough Actor for Junebug Independent Spirit Awards - Best Supporting Female Won for Junebug Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress for Junebug Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards - Breakthrough Film Artist for Junebug Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress for Junebug National Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Supporting Actress for Junebug San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress for Junebug Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress for Junebug Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actress for Junebug Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards - Best Supporting Actress for Junebug Sundance Film Festival - Special Jury Prize for Acting for Junebug |
#9 Amy Adams
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