"Amanda Seyfried"
Name:
Amanda Seyfried
Date of
Birth: December 03, 1985
Place of
Birth: Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
Amanda
Seyfried mini-bio: Seyfried was born in Allentown,
in the Lehigh Valley
region of Pennsylvania.
She is a 2003 graduate of Allentown's William Allen
High School and is currently a student
at New York City's Fordham University.
As a teenager, she appeared on the cover of three Francine Pascal books. Career Seyfried started her career as an
actress in soap operas. In 2000, she was the first actress to play the role of
Lucy Montgomery on CBS's As the World Turns. She went on, from 2002 to 2003, to
play the role of Joni Stafford on ABC's All My Children. In 2004, Seyfried
achieved a breakthrough when she was cast as the most dimwitted of the
"Plastics", Karen Smith, in the popular teen film Mean Girls
alongside Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Lacey Chabert. The film grossed
over $86 million in the United
States. In Mean Girls, she initially
auditioned for the role of Regina.
She became the original casting choices for both the roles of "Regina
George" and "Cady". She was then cast as the sidekick to "Regina", "Karen
Smith". The other roles later went to McAdams and Lohan, respectively.
In
2005, she played the lead character in one of the nine parts in the movie Nine
Lives. Continuing her television career, Seyfried was cast in UPN's Veronica
Mars as the title character's murdered best friend Lilly Kane. In her role as Lilly,
she appeared on the show through a series of flashbacks, dreams and visions,
which portrayed her as a wild, stylish, and bubbly teenage daughter of a
business executive. Lilly is sometimes compared to the character of Laura
Palmer of Twin Peaks, who also was deceased
and appeared through various flashbacks as the plot unfolded. While appearing
often during Mars' first season, she also appeared briefly in season 2's
premiere and finalé. Seyfried originally auditioned for the title role on
Veronica Mars, but lost the place to Kristen Bell and ended up winning the role
of Lilly Kane. Seyfried has had primetime cameo appearances and minor guest
roles on Fox's House, Justice, NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and
CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and currently appears as Rebecca on ABC
Family's television series Wildfire. Seyfried is also a main character, Sarah
Henrickson, in the highly-touted HBO original series Big Love. She appeared in
the 2007 film Alpha Dog, played a supporting role in the film Solstice in 2007,
and played the role of 'Sophie' alongside Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan in
the film version of the musical "Mamma Mia!" released in 2008.
Seyfried
has joined the cast of the dark horror film Jennifer's Body in February 2008,
for which filming began in March 2008, playing the title character's best
friend. Amanda Seyfried has several films in both pre- and post-production.
Titles include "Chloe", "A Woman of No Importance",
"Dear John", and "Boogie Woogie".
Later in
2010 Seyfried starred in the romantic-comedy film Letters to Juliet, based on
the book by Lise and Ceil Friedman. In 2010 she was named, and received an
award as, the "Showest Breakthrough Female Star of The Year". She
also won the "Scared-As-S**T" category for her performance in
Jennifer's Body and was nominated for Best Female Performance for her movie
Dear John, at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. Also in 2010, she was included in
Forbes's "The 17 Stars To Watch" list, received 3 nominations in the
Teen Choice Awards for Choice Movie Actress Drama and Choice Movie Chemistry
with her co-star Channing Tatum for their movie Dear John. Seyfried was also
nominated for Choice Movie Actress Romantic Comedy for Letters to Juliet.
Seyfried
plays the lead role of Valerie in Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood. It was
released on March 11, 2011. She also plays the lead role of Sylvia Weis in
Andrew Niccol's In Time, released in October 2011.
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