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Anna Faris
Anna Kay Faris is an American actress, comedian, producer, writer, podcaster, and author. She rose to prominence for her comedic roles, particularly the lead part of Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie films (2000–present). Her films as a leading actress have grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide.
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Born 29 November 1976 · Q4491
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2026· 4 entries
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Public attention spiked: 66,777 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10.3× the usual 6,486, with 7 article edits. Editors noted: Added 1 {{Bare URL inline}} tag(s) using a script. For other recently-tagged pages with bare URLs, see :Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations from June
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2025· 1 entry
Faris lost her home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles due to the Palisades Fire
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2021· 1 entry
Confirmed they had married in a courthouse ceremony in Washington State
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2020· 1 entry
Faris left the show after seven seasons
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2019· 1 entry
Faris and her guests experienced mysterious health symptoms in a Lake Tahoe rental cottage
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2018· 1 entry
It was announced that it had been finalized
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2017· 3 entries
The couple announced their separation, and filed for divorce on December 1, 2017
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Anna Faris, Allison Janney, and Chuck Lorre made a combined $250,000 donation to Planned Parenthood Los Angeles in lieu of a "For Your Consideration" Emmy campaign
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In 2017, Anna Faris, Allison Janney, and Chuck Lorre made a combined $250,000 donation to Planned Parenthood Los Angeles in lieu of a "For Your Consideration" Emmy campaign.
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2016· 1 entry
Had a brief appearance as an exaggerated version of herself in the action-comedy Keanu, and starred in the music video for the song "Hold on to Me" by Mondo Cozmo
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2015· 3 entries
The fourth installment in the Alvin and the Chipmunks film series
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In 2015, Faris and her then husband donated $1 million to a charity that provided eyeglasses to underprivileged children.
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Faris and her then husband donated $1 million to a charity that provided eyeglasses to underprivileged children
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2013· 1 entry
Faris acted for the third time with then-husband Chris Pratt, following Take Me Home Tonight and What's Your Number
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2012· 1 entry
Nine weeks premature and spent a month in intensive care before going home
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2010· 2 entries
Receiving largely negative reviews, with many critics unimpressed by its screenplay
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And Tad Friend described her in The New Yorker as "Hollywood's most original comedic actress
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2009· 2 entries
In a small ceremony in Bali, Indonesia, eloping on a whim after a friend's wedding
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Explaining that she "hadn't done much before that
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2008· 1 entry
In the US, and made US$70 million in its global theatrical run
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2007· 3 entries
To lukewarm critical and commercial responses
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Faris filed for divorce in April 2007 citing irreconcilable differences.
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It received a wide theatrical release four years later, on March 4, 2011, to negative reviews and lackluster earnings
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2006· 1 entry
Also appeared opposite Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson in Ivan Reitman's romantic comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend, playing Hannah, the co-worker of a man (Wilson) dating a neurotic and aggressive superhero (Thurman)
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2004· 1 entry
Faris debuted on the last season of the sitcom Friends in the recurring role of Erica, the mother whose twin babies are adopted by Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Monica (Courteney Cox); and in the summer that year, she fil
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2003· 1 entry
Faris was "cast last-minute" opposite Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Sofia Coppola's drama Lost in Translation, where she played a "bubbly, extroverted" actress
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2002· 1 entry
Starred alongside Rob Schneider and Rachel McAdams in the comedy The Hot Chick, about a teenage girl whose mind is magically swapped with that of a 30-year-old criminal
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2000· 1 entry
When she starred in the horror-comedy parody film Scary Movie, portraying Cindy Campbell, a play on the character of Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) in the slasher thriller Scream
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1996· 1 entry
Faris appeared in the MSN Preview, an interactive CD-ROM promotional video for Microsoft's MSN 2
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1976· 2 entries
Born 1976-11-29.
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The second child of Jack, a sociology professor, and Karen Faris, a special education teacher
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