1974-08-20 ( 50 years old ) in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress. Known for 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, and has been nominated for six Academy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Adams began her career as a dancer in dinner theatre, 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 on television and took on "mean girl" parts in low-budget feature films. Her first major role was in Steven Spielberg's biopic Catch Me If You Can (2002), but she was unemployed for a year afterwards. 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), where Adams played a cheerful princess-to-be, was her first success as a leading lady. She followed it by playing other naïve, optimistic women in films like the drama Doubt (2008). Subsequently, she 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 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.
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Movies
Nightbitch
2024-12-06
Disenchanted
2022-11-18
Dear Evan Hansen
2021-09-24
The Woman in the Window
2021-05-13
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021-03-18
Hillbilly Elegy
2020-11-09
Vice
2018-12-25
Justice League
2017-11-15
Xenolinguistics: Understanding 'Arrival'
2017-02-14
Arrival
2016-11-10
Nocturnal Animals
2016-11-04
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016-03-23
The Making of Big Eyes
2015-04-14
Big Eyes
2014-12-24
Lullaby
2014-06-13
Her: The Untitled Rick Howard Project
2014-05-13
Her: Love in the Modern Age
2014-01-17
Her
2013-12-18
American Hustle
2013-12-03
Man of Steel
2013-06-12
Wide-Awake
2012-12-07
Trouble with the Curve
2012-09-21
The Master
2012-09-14
On the Road
2012-05-22
The Muppets
2011-11-22
The Fighter
2010-12-10
Love and Distrust
2010-08-16
Leap Year
2010-01-08
Moonlight Serenade
2009-12-08
Julie & Julia
2009-08-06
Doubt: Stage to Screen
2009-04-07
Doubt
2008-12-12
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
2008-03-07
Sunshine Cleaning
2008-01-18
Charlie Wilson's War
2007-12-19
Enchanted
2007-11-20
Underdog
2007-08-03
The Ex
2006-12-01
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
2006-11-22
Pennies
2006-10-20
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2006-08-04
Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party
2006-05-30
Junebug
2005-08-03
The Wedding Date
2005-02-04
Standing Still
2005-01-02
The Last Run
2004-01-01
Catch Me If You Can
2002-12-16
Serving Sara
2002-08-23
Pumpkin
2002-06-28
The Slaughter Rule
2002-01-11
Cruel Intentions 2
2000-11-09
Psycho Beach Party
2000-08-06
The Chromium Hook
2000-05-13
Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999-07-23
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