Amara Miller

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Amara Miller (born May 4, 2000 ) is an American actress who gained international fame primarily as a child actress .

life and career

Amara Miller was born on May 4, 2000 to Ahnalisa and Michael Miller and grew up in the Californian coastal town of Pacific Grove as one of three children (one younger and one older brother). Before her success as an actress, she last attended Pacific Grove Middle School , which she left after her sixth grade and then received home schooling. In 2009, her aunt was at a party where it was discussed that director Alexander Payne was looking for someone to play in his new film The Descendants . Her niece, Amara, who was nine years old at the time and had no acting experience at all, came to mind.

After Amara had subsequently recorded an audition tape and this test tape was well received by the producers, she was cast in the feature film for the role of Scottie King . There she held one of the leading roles of the film alongside George Clooney and Shailene Woodley , where they mimed the film daughters of Clooney together with Woodley. The award-winning film, which has been nominated umpteen times and was nominated five times at the 2012 Academy Awards and won the award in the " Best Adapted Screenplay " category , was shot in Hawaii and was one of the most successful with grossing over 177 million US dollars Films of the film year 2011 .

Amara Miller has also been nominated for several awards for her performance in film, including in 2011 for a Gotham Award in the category "Best Ensemble Performance" together with George Clooney , Shailene Woodley , Nick Krause , Beau Bridges , Mary Birdsong , Rob Huebel , Robert Forster , Matthew Lillard and Judy Greer . Further nominations this year were for a PFCS award in the category “Best Performance by a Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role - Female” or for a WFCC award in the category “Best Young Actress”. The following year she won 2nd place with the Ensemble of Films in the “Best Ensemble” category at the awards given by the Central Ohio Film Critics Association . She also won a Young Artist Award in the category “ Best Actress in a Feature Film - Ten Years or Younger ” at the 2012 Young Artist Awards .

Due to her success in the blockbuster , she was also booked for other productions and took on, among other things, one of the leading roles in the NBC series 1600 Penn , without even having to audition. In the series, she plays in all episodes published between 2012 and 2013 Marigold Gilchrist , the twin sister of Xander Gilchrist (played Benjamin Stockham ) and the daughter of US President Standrich Dale Gilchrist ( Bill Pullman ). Directed by Tristram Shapeero, she starred in the black comedy Awesome Merry Christmas in 2014 . Since then (as of April 2017) it has not appeared in any well-known production.

Amara Miller's German-speaking voice actors

At times, Amara Miller had numerous different voice actors in the various German-language dubbed versions of the films and series in which she was involved, and thus no standard speaker. In The Descendants - Family and Other Matters , Vanessa Stuckenberger lent her voice, in 1600 Penn Soraya Richter, born in 1996, was her German voice. In Tristram Shapeeros terribly merry Christmas she received from Viktoria Waldau their German voice.

Filmography

Film appearances (also short appearances)
Series appearances (also guest and short appearances)

Nominations & Awards

Nominations

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pacific Grove's Amara Miller blossoms in role of Marigold on new TV comedy '1600 Penn' , accessed April 17, 2017
  2. ^ A b Pacific Grove girl Amara Miller's stardom still rising (English), accessed April 17, 2017
  3. ↑ a b 33rd Annual Young Artist Awards ( Memento from January 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on April 17, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Miller, Amara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 2000