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Amanda Peet
Amanda Peet is an American actress. She began her career with small parts on television before making her feature film debut in Animal Room (1995). Her portrayal of Jill St. Claire in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) brought her wider recognition. Since then, she has appeared in Saving Silverman (2001), High Crimes, Changing Lanes, Igby Goes Down, Something's Gotta Give, Identity, Melinda and Melinda (…
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entertainment · American actress (born 1972) · television actor · film actor · writer · stage actor · television producer · actor · also Amanda Peet, Peet
Born 11 January 1972 · Q131332
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d always wanted to explore being a bit more serious, and fortunately those shows were well received. [Perry won an Emmy for his guest role.] Aaron and Tommy [Schlamme, executive producer] were pleased with my performance and had me in mind when they wrote this character. Did you find yourself slipping back into Chandler-isms every now and again? We were shooting something where two people creep up on me and say my name, and my tendency is to do a huge scare take, you know? But I
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“d always wanted to explore being a bit more serious, and fortunately those shows were well received. [Perry won an Emmy for his guest role.] Aaron and Tommy [Schlamme, executive producer] were pleased with my performance and had me in mind when they wrote this character. Did you find yourself slipping back into Chandler-isms every now and again? We were shooting something where two people creep up on me and say my name, and my tendency is to do a huge scare take, you know? But I”
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“Frankly, I feel that parents who don”
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Public attention spiked: 24,909 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.5× the usual 4,492, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Personal life trivial
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Public attention spiked: 17,363 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 4,492, with 0 article edits.
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Expressed an interest in having an adult bat mitzvah
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2025· 1 entry
Peet starred in and produced Fantasy Life directed by Matthew Shear
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2021· 2 entries
Netflix released The Chair, a six-episode comedic dramatic series written by Peet and produced by her, alongside David Benioff and D
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Wrote and co-executive produced The Chair for Netflix
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2018· 1 entry
At the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles to positive reviews
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2013· 1 entry
Made her playwriting debut with The Commons of Pensacola, starring Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker, and appeared in the film Identity Thief, as the wife of a man whose identity is stolen by a woman, the little
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2012· 2 entries
(2009), a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich, Peet reunited with John Cusack, to play his estranged wife
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Peet headlined the television series Bent, as a recently divorced lawyer
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2010· 1 entry
Peet also provided for one of the main characters of DVD sci-fi adventure film Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey, and starred as the love interest of the main character in the live-action family adventure film Gulli
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2008· 3 entries
Revealed that she has struggled with postpartum depression
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Starred in the mystery drama The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), as an FBI agent, the dramedy Five Dollars a Day (2008), as the girlfriend of a seemingly successful man, and the crime drama What Doesn't Kill You,
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Peet volunteered to be a spokeswoman for Every Child By Two (ECBT), a non-profit organization that advocates childhood vaccination
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2006· 1 entry
Peet acted on Neil Simon's Broadway production of Barefoot in the Park, followed by the romantic drama Griffin & Phoenix, a remake of the 1976 ABC TV movie, in which she portrayed a terminally ill woman living life to th
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2005· 2 entries
Was playing a woman becoming a successful photographer, opposite Ashton Kutcher, in the romantic comedy A Lot Like Love
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Also performed in the play This Is How It Goes, filling in for Marisa Tomei at the last minute after six days of rehearsal, and appeared in the Woody Allen's tragicomedy Melinda and Melinda and the thriller Syriana,
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2004· 1 entry
Starred in The Whole Ten Yards, the sequel to The Whole Nine Yards
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2003· 1 entry
Peet appeared with Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Keanu Reeves in the romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give, directed by Nancy Meyers, playing an auctioneer, working for Christie's
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2002· 1 entry
Played the sister of Ashley Judd in the suspense thriller High Crimes, in which Judd and co-star Morgan Freeman take on the military's court-martial of Judd's husband for murder
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2000· 1 entry
Played a love interest in the independent comedy Whipped, won the Young Hollywood Award for "Best New Style Maker", and was voted one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by People
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1999· 1 entry
Peet also starred in Simply Irresistible, a fantasy romantic comedy, opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar
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1996· 1 entry
For instance, she appeared in One Fine Day, with George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer, and She's the One, with Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz
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1972· 2 entries
Born 1972-01-11.
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In New York City, the daughter of Penny (née Levy), a social worker, and Charles Peet Jr
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