Amy Adams

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Amy Adams (2016)

Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974 in Vicenza , Italy ) is an American actress . She has appeared in over 50 film and television roles since the late 1990s, mostly in comedies. She achieved fame above all for the portrayal of innocent, naive characters in films such as Junikäfer (2005), Verwünscht (2007) or Faith Question (2008). Adams is one of the best-paid actresses in Hollywood and has been nominated for an Oscar six times . In 2014 and 2015, she won a Golden Globe Award for her leading roles in American Hustle and Big Eyes, and a Critics' Choice Movie Award for the former .

biography

childhood and education

Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, where her father was stationed as a US soldier. She grew up as the middle of seven children of a Mormon family in rural Castle Rock in the US state of Colorado . Her father, an actor himself, wrote plays in his spare time that were performed with his family. This is how Adams came into contact with acting at a young age. She attended high school in the district of Douglas County . Amy Adams was not on her school's cheerleading team or drama class, but she regularly took ballet lessons and performed theater after class. After leaving school she worked in a dinner theater (a restaurant that offers meals with theater productions combining) in Denver , Colorado, as well as briefly as a hostess and waitress at the famous American restaurant chains chain Hooters . Then Adams replaced a colleague in Minnesota and worked at the Chanhassen Dinner Theater , where she a. a. appeared in a performance of the Broadway musical Good News .

In 1999 she got her first film role: In the satire Mercilessly Beautiful by director Michael Patrick Jann , she can be seen alongside Kirsten Dunst , Denise Richards and Kirstie Alley in a supporting role as the simple-minded cheerleader Leslie , who takes part in a local beauty pageant. Spurred on by fellow actress Kirstie Alley, the young actress moved to Los Angeles . Two months after moving, Adams received a leading role in the television series Manchester Prep , a prequel to the 1999 film Ice Cold Angels , in which she played the character played in the Sarah Michelle Gellar film. Due to disputes between the production companies Fox Broadcasting and Columbia TriStar , the series was canceled after only three wacky episodes, edited in the cut and marketed directly on video in the USA as Ice Cold Angels 2 .

Successes with Spielberg, Junikäfer and Faith Question

Amy Adams on the set of Cursed

Adams then received supporting roles in Robert Lee King's horror comedy Psycho Beach Party and the 36-minute short film The Chromium Hook , in which director James Stanger approaches the truth about popular urban legends in a small town . This was followed by other supporting roles in the athletic drama The Slaughter Rule , Pumpkin with Christina Ricci and in the critically acclaimed romantic comedy Husband or Divorce Is Sweet with Matthew Perry and Elizabeth Hurley in the lead roles, before casting director Deborah Zane on in 2002 she became aware. Zane suggested Steven Spielberg cast Amy Adams in his film project Catch Me If You Can . Here she acts as the nurse Brenda , who becomes the lover of the main character portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio . The collaboration with Steven Spielberg gave Adams a breakthrough in the film business and made her known to a worldwide cinema audience.

This was followed by the female lead in Jonathan Sagall's tragic comedy The Last Run and the drama Standing Still - Looking Back Ahead before she played the recurring role of Alice Doherty on the CBS television series Dr. Vegas got hold of. The series about a hospital doctor (played by Rob Lowe ) who quits his job to take care of well-heeled guests at a casino in Las Vegas had little success, and Dr. Vegas was discontinued after a year. After a role in the comedy Wedding Date as a half-sister of Debra Messing , the high point of her career followed. In the 2005 independent film Junikäfer by Phil Morrison , Amy Adams plays the heavily pregnant and childlike Ashley from rural North Carolina , who receives a visit from her cosmopolitan brother-in-law and wife and dreams of giving her baby the fancy name Junebug . Amy Adams has received numerous film awards for her acting performance, including a 2006 Academy Award nomination, the Special Jury Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and awards from the San Francisco Film Critics Association , the Southeastern Film Critics Association , and the National Society of Film Critics and the Independent Spirit Award , each for best supporting actress.

By the press and critics as "Queen of Independent Films celebrated" (engl. "Indie Queen"), the actress worked with the bright red hair and 2008 at eight film projects, including Adam McKay's comedy Ricky Bobby - king of the racers in the Will Ferrell one rebellious Nascar driver, as well as Kevin Limas Verwünscht , in which she plays the leading female role alongside Patrick Dempsey . In the romantic fantasy comedy, Adams again successfully took on the role of the innocent-naive and acts as a princess who is conjured up into contemporary New York by an evil witch from a cartoon . In 2008 she received the Saturn Award and a nomination for the Golden Globe for her "impeccably faithful-eyed" performance, which also included song and dance . For the television work of Adams include guest appearances in the television series Buffy - the Vampire Slayer (2000) Smallville (2001), The West Wing - The West Wing (2002) and The Office (2005 - 2006).

Adams together with Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller (right), their film colleagues from Night at Museum 2 (2009)

Adams is currently one of the best-paid actresses in Hollywood, according to Forbes Magazine . Between June 2007 and June 2008, she received fees totaling 14.5 million US dollars, ranking behind Cameron Diaz , Keira Knightley , Jennifer Aniston , Reese Witherspoon , Gwyneth Paltrow , Jodie Foster , Sarah Jessica Parker and Meryl Streep in ninth . A year later, she starred in John Patrick Shanley's 2008 theatrical adaptation of Faith, alongside Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman, as a young nun and history teacher at a Catholic school who is confronted with allegations of abuse against the clergy. The role of sister James brought her again nominations for the most important film awards, including the Golden Globe and Oscar. In 2009 she appeared in the comedy Night at Museum 2 , in which she played the aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart alongside Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson . Also in 2009 she starred in the role of Julie Powell in the film Julie & Julia . 2010 followed a supporting role in David O. Russell's boxer drama The Fighter alongside Mark Wahlberg , Christian Bale and Melissa Leo . The supporting role of Charlene Fleming earned her again a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination in 2011. In 2015 , she received the Golden Globe for Best Actress for Tim Burton's feature film Big Eyes . At the 2017 Golden Globe Awards she was nominated in the same category for Arrival by Denis Villeneuve . With Nocturnal Animals , Justice League and Vice - The Second Man followed other films that received critical and public attention. 2018 she was also in the lead role of by Jean-Marc Vallée staged HBO - Miniseries Sharp Objects on the novel by Gillian Flynn to see.

Personal

Adams has been married to her fellow actor Darren Le Gallo since May 2, 2015 , with whom she had previously been in a relationship for 13 years and was engaged for seven years. On May 15, 2010, the two parents had a daughter.

synchronization

Her German dubbing voice is usually from Giuliana Jakobeit .

Filmography (selection)

Awards and nominations

Oscar :

Emmy :

Golden Globe :

British Academy Film Award :

  • 2009 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Question of Faith
  • 2011 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Fighter
  • 2011 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Master
  • 2014 : Nomination for Best Actress for American Hustle
  • 2015 : Nomination for Best Actress for Big Eyes
  • 2017 : Nomination for Best Leading Actress for Arrival
  • 2019 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Vice - The Second Man

Screen Actors Guild Awards :

  • 2006 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Junikäfer
  • 2009 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Question of Faith
  • 2009: Nomination for Best Acting Ensemble for Question of Faith
  • 2011 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Fighter
  • 2011: Nomination for Best Acting Ensemble for The Fighter
  • 2013 : Nomination for Best Actress for American Hustle
  • 2013: Award as Best Acting Ensemble for American Hustle
  • 2017 : Nomination for Best Leading Actress for Arrival
  • 2019 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Vice - The Second Man
  • 2019: Nomination for Best Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries for Sharp Objects

Critics' Choice Movie Award :

  • 2006: Award for Best Supporting Actress for Junikäfer
  • 2008: Nomination for Best Actress for Verwünscht
  • 2009: Nomination for Best Acting Ensemble for Question of Faith
  • 2011: Award for Best Acting Ensemble for The Fighter
  • 2011: Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Fighter
  • 2013 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Master
  • 2014 : Award as Best Actress in a Comedy for American Hustle
  • 2014: Award as Best Acting Ensemble for American Hustle
  • 2017 : Nomination for Best Actress for American Hustle
  • 2019 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Vice - The Second Man
  • 2019: Nomination for Best Acting Ensemble for Vice - The Second Man

Critics' Choice Television Award

literature

Web links

Commons : Amy Adams  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matt Wolf: And she did go to the ball . In: The Sunday Times, April 16, 2006, p. 15
  2. ↑ Michael Shnayerson: Some Enchanted Amy . In: Vanity Fair , 50, 2008, No. 11, p. 186
  3. ↑ Jens Hinrichsen: Cursed . In: film-dienst , 26/2007
  4. ↑ Wesley Johnson: Hollywood's Top Earners . Press Association Newsfile, July 23, 2008, 4:38 PM BST
  5. ↑ Amy Adams and Darren Le Gallo got married. www.vip.de, May 5, 2015, accessed on August 28, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Donna Freydkin: Amy Adams' career seems enchanted . In: USA Today , March 5, 2008, LIFE, p. 1D
  7. ↑ Sarah Michaud: It's a Girl for Amy Adams! . People.com, May 17, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Amy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adams, Amy Lou (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Vicenza , Italy