
Acting
Community Rating
6.4
TMDB estimate
Born
August 20, 1974 (age 51)
Born in
Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress. Known for both 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. She 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, a pursuit she followed from 1994 to 1998. They 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 roles as the "mean girl" 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), in which Adams played a cheerful princess-to-be, marked her first success in a leading role. She followed it by playing other naïve, optimistic women in films like the drama Doubt (2008). Subsequently, she played more assertive parts, earning 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 2012 revival of Into the Woods at the Public Theatre and the 2022 West End revival of The Glass Menagerie. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Adams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Lois
2016

Arrival
Louise Banks
2016

Catch Me If You Can
Brenda Strong
2002

Her
Amy
2013

Zack Snyder's Justice League
Lois Lane
2021

Man of Steel
Lois Lane
2013

Justice League
Lois Lane
2017

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Amelia Earhart
2009

Enchanted
Giselle
2007

The Master
Peggy Dodd
2012

Nocturnal Animals
Susan Morrow
2016

American Hustle
Sydney Prosser
2013

Vice
Lynne Cheney
2018

The Fighter
Charlene Fleming
2010

Leap Year
Anna Brady
2010

The Woman in the Window
Anna Fox
2021

Disenchanted
Giselle
2022

Doubt
Sister James
2008

Nightbitch
Mother
2024

The Muppets
Mary
2011