Amy Adams
Amy Adams
Biography
Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress. Known for both her comedic and dramatic roles, she has been featured three times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actresses. She has received various accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for six Academy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Adams began her career as a dancer in dinner theater, which she pursued from 1994 to 1998, and made her film debut with a supporting part in the dark comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999). She made guest appearances in television and took on "mean girl" parts in low-budget feature films. Her first major role came in Steven Spielberg's biopic Catch Me If You Can (2002), but she was unemployed for a year afterward. Her breakthrough came when she portrayed a loquacious pregnant woman in the independent comedy-drama Junebug (2005), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. The musical fantasy film Enchanted (2007), in which Adams played a cheerful princess-to-be, was her first success as a leading lady. She followed this by playing other naïve, optimistic women in films like the drama Doubt (2008), and subsequently played more assertive parts to positive reviews in the sports film The Fighter (2010) and the psychological drama The Master (2012). From 2013 to 2017, she portrayed Lois Lane in superhero films set in the DC Extended Universe. She won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for playing a seductive con artist in the crime film American Hustle (2013) and the painter Margaret Keane in the biopic Big Eyes (2014). Further acclaim came for playing a linguist in the science fiction film Arrival (2016), a self-harming reporter in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018), and Lynne Cheney in the satire Vice (2018). Adams' stage roles include the Public Theater's revival of Into the Woods in 2012 and the West End theatre revival of The Glass Menagerie in 2022. 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.
Known For
Actor
as The Mother
as Laura
as Suzanne Simard
as Mother
as Giselle
as Cynthia Murphy
as Anna Fox
as Lois Lane
as Beverly "Bev" Vance
as Self
as Lynne Cheney
as Camille Preaker
as Lois Lane
as Self
as Louise Banks
as Susan Morrow
as Herself
as Self - Guest
as Margaret Keane
as Emily
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Amy
as Sydney Prosser
as Self (archive footage)
as Lois Lane
as Lois Lane
as The Light-Bringer
as Mickey Lobel
as Peggy Dodd
as Jane / Joan Vollmer
as Mary
as Charlene Fleming
as Charlotte Brown (segment "Pennies")
as Anna Brady
as Self
as Chloe
as Julie Powell
as Amelia Earhart
as Self
as Sister James
as Delysia LaFosse
as Rose Lorkowski
as Bonnie Bach
as Giselle
as Polly Purebred (voice)
as Self
as Abby March
as Gorgeous Woman
as Charlotte Brown
as Ashley
as Amy Ellis
as Elise
as Katy
as Alexis
as Alice Doherty
as Brenda Strong
as Kate
as Alex
as Doreen
as Self
as Jodi Melville
as Kathryn Merteuil
as Marvel Ann
as Jill Royaltuber
as Leslie Miller
as Cathy
as Dinah
as Rebecca 'Becka' Taylor
as Maggie Murphy
as Kat Peterson
as Self
as Cousin Beth
as Misty (voice)
as Merilynn / Sunshine (voice)
as (voice)
as Dawn's little Musician (voice)
as Herself - Presenter
as Self - Guest
as Self
as Self
as Self - Host
as Herself
as Self
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer