Amanda Peet

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Amanda Peet (2014)

Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972 in New York City ) is an American actress .

biography

childhood and education

Amanda Peet and her older sister were raised by their mother Penny, a social worker, and father, Charles, a renowned lawyer, until the parents divorced in 1990. Peet showed a love for acting at the age of three when she climbed on stage during a theater performance. Peet received her school education at Friends Seminary , a private Quaker school in Manhattan (together with fellow actor Liev Schreiber ) and at schools abroad. After graduating from high school , Peet decided to study American history at Columbia University . To compensate, she attended a theater course and was encouraged by her acting professor to audition for the well-known German- US-American stage actress and acting mentor Uta Hagen , who had previously successfully taught mimes like Robert De Niro .

Acting career

With the aim of pursuing an acting career, Peet apprenticed to Uta Hagen for four years after graduating from university in 1994. During this time she was inter alia in the Off-Broadway - Revival Awake and Sing by Clifford Odet to see. Peet financed his acting studies with a job as a waitress and the income from a television commercial for the chewy candy brand Skittles, which is popular in the USA . During that time, she took on just about any role she could get to establish herself on US television. She was seen in an episode of NYPD Blue and made a guest appearance on the soap opera Central Park West . Other guest roles followed in the series Law & Order and A Single Seldom Comes Alone .

Peet made her film debut in 1995 with Craig Singer's science fiction film Animal Room . After the short film Virginity at the side of Chris Coburn , she acted in the love comedies She's the One as the sister of Jennifer Aniston and days like this with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer . 1997 followed an appearance in the episode The Summer of George in the hit sitcom Seinfeld and an appearance in the series Chaos City . Peet gained further acting experience through numerous roles in independent productions such as On The Line Stuck and the drama Touch Me with Michael Vartan and Greg Louganis , in which she can be seen as an actress and aerobics teacher who is diagnosed with AIDS .

After a long dry spell, Peet got a supporting role in Willard Carroll's drama Life and Love in LA , in which she was able to act alongside established screen mimes like Sean Connery , Ellen Burstyn or Gillian Anderson . After a supporting role in the critically panned love comedy Simply Irresistible , Peet was hired to star in the female lead of Jacqueline "Jack" Barrett in the television series Jack & Jill , although she was portrayed in the pilot by another actress. The stories about a young New York couple aired from 1999 to 2001 and enjoyed good reviews and loyal viewers, making Peet known to a wider audience in the United States.

High point of her career

After a series of moderately successful films, Peet won over the critics in Jonathan Lynn's 2000 crime grotesque No half measures . In addition to Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry , Peet played the ambiguous character of Jill St. Claire , a magnanimous dental assistant who falls in love with a hit man. For this role, she was nominated a year later at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards for best supporting actress in the comedy / romance category. She also embodied the part of Jill St. Claire in 2004 in the sequel No half measures 2 - now even more! .

After appearances in Carl Franklin's thriller High Crimes alongside Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman and in Burr Steers ' tragicomedy Igby with Susan Sarandon and Jeff Goldblum, Peet starred in James Mangold's horror film Identity in the spring of 2003 . In the complex story in which ten people die in a motel on a rainy night, she plays the prostitute Paris who tries to start a new life in Florida . Here she acted alongside John Cusack , John C. McGinley and Ray Liotta . This was followed by Nancy Meyer's love comedy What the Heart Desires , in which she plays the seductive Marin , who has an affair with the much older playboy Harry ( Jack Nicholson ), as well as a supporting role in Woody Allen's tragic comedy Melinda and Melinda . In 2005, Something Like Love hit theaters. In Nigel Cole's love comedy , Peet and Ashton Kutcher play lovers who only find each other after seven years of lasting friendship.

Since 2005, she starred in films such as the Oscar -prämierten drama Syriana alongside George Clooney and Matt Damon and in the comedy Your Ex - My nightmare with Zach Braff and Jason Bateman . In addition to her film work, Peet has also appeared in numerous plays, such as Whale Music by the New York Rattlestick Theater Company , The Country Club at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, and Winter Lies and 27 Sketches: Fear and Misery in the Third Rich . In 2009 the female lead followed Cusack, her acting colleague from identity , in Roland Emmerich's disaster film 2012 .

Private life

On September 30, 2006, Peet married screenwriter David Benioff . They live with their three children (* 2007, * 2010 and * 2014) in Los Angeles .

Filmography (selection)

Peet at the Berlinale 2010

Awards

Blockbuster Entertainment Award

  • 2001: Nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Comedy or Romantic Film ) for No Halves

Independent Spirit Awards

  • 2011: Robert Altman Award for Please Give (together with the rest of the acting ensemble)

Young Hollywood Awards

  • 2000: Best New Style Maker

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SURNAME Peet, Amanda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States