Amy Lou Adams is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress. While working at the famous dinner theater in Chanhassen, Minnesota, she was discovered by a movie producer. Shortly after she was cast in her first comedic role in the 1999 satire Drop Dead Gorgeous.

Having appeared in the films Cruel Intentions 2 (2000), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Talladega Nights (2006), Adams has also guest-starred in such television shows as The Office, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, The West Wing, Dr. Vegas and Smallville. She has also done small films such as Psycho Beach Party.

She received critical acclaim for her role in the 2005 film Junebug. Among the awards she has won for the role are the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the National Society of Film Critics award for "Best Supporting Actress" and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. She was also nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture and, in January 2006, Adams was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role. The Academy invited Adams to become a member in 2006.[5]

In 2007, Adams appeared in the Walt Disney Pictures fantasy animated/live action film Enchanted, released on November 21. The film is about a princess going from cartoon to real life New York City, and co-stars Patrick Dempsey, Susan Sarandon and James Marsden. Having finished filming Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day in London she is currently filming an adaptation of the John Patrick Shanley play 'Doubt'.

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