Amanda Peet (born
January 11, 1972) is an American film and television
actress.
Early life: Peet was born in New York City to
Charles Peet, a lawyer, and Penny Levy, a social worker;
the two are now divorced. Her father is a Quaker and her
mother is Jewish. Peet attended Friends Seminary, then
studied history at and graduated from Columbia
University, where she auditioned for acting teacher Uta
Hagen and decided to become an actress after taking
Hagen's class. During her four-year period of study with
Hagen, Peet appeared in the off-Broadway revival of
Clifford Odets's Awake and Sing.
Career: Peet's first screen performance was a
television commercial for Skittles. Her early roles
included a guest starring role on the television series
Law & Order. She made her film debut in Animal Room
(1995). Peet maintained a steady acting career in
relatively obscure indie movies.
Born on January 11th, 1972, Amanda Peet grew up in New
York and made a decidedly unconventional debut into
showbiz: At three-years-old, a thoroughly uninvited Peet
jumped onto a stage during the middle of a play.
Despite the auspicious beginning, Peet treated acting as
more of a hobby than anything else, and only began to
consider it a potential career after her drama professor
at Columbia University encouraged her to audition for
renowned acting teacher Uta Hagen. Peet studied with
Hagen for four years, during which time she participated
in the off-Broadway revival Awake and Sing.
Though she would eventually be voted one of the year's
50 most beautiful people in a 2000 issue of People
magazine -- not to mention participate with the likes of
Susan Sarandon, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jack Nicholson --
Peet worked as a waitress during the first few years of
her acting career.
The sloe-eyed brunette made her onscreen debut in Craig
Singer's Animal Room (1996). That same year, she could
also be seen in an episode of Law & Order, and went
on to play a role in Grind (1996), a crime drama
starring Billy Crudup. Before long, Peet landed a small
role in the Michelle Pfeiffer-George Clooney romantic
comedy One Fine Day.
Since then, the actress has continued to build both her
film and television credits: in 1997, she appeared in
the AIDS drama Touch Me, and the following year she had
sizable roles in South Boston crime drama Southie with
Donnie Wahlberg and Rose McGowan, which won the American
Independent award at the 1998 Seattle Film Festival.
On television, she could be seen guest starring on a
number of shows including Seinfeld and Ellen Foster. In
1999, she got her own television show, Jack & Jill,
on the WB network.
That same year, she could be seen playing Sean Patrick
Flanery's fiancée in Simply Irresistible and then
acting as his bedmate in Body Shots, another in the long
line of explorations into pre-millennial twentysomething
dating angst.
After starring in director Neil Turitz's debut Two
Ninas, Peet landed a leading role in Peter M. Cohen's
independent comedy Whipped. While the film itself
performed dismally, Peet met her boyfriend, Brian Van
Holt, on the set. Despite it's independent status,
Whipped was given a solid amount of mainstream
marketing, and Peet was praised for a game performance
in the face of an admittedly weak script.
After a small role in 2000's Isn't She Great with Bette
Midler and Nathan Lane, Peet was finally recognized by
critics and audiences alike in The Whole Nine Yards.
Though the film itself did not fare particularly well,
Peet was praised for holding her own against Hollywood
heavy-hitter Bruce Willis, which certainly didn't hurt
her when it came time to audition for Saving Silverman,
which placed her opposite Jason Biggs while he was still
reeling from the success of American Pie.
In 2002, Peet played a considerably less vicious wife in
Changing Lanes with Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson,
and won no small amount of praise for her performance as
the heroin-addled mistress of Kieran Culkin's godfather
in Igby Goes Down. Peet would go on to star opposite
film veterans Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Nancy
Meyers' Something's Gotta Give, in which she stars as
Nicholson's scandalously young girlfriend, as well as
James Mangold's psychological thriller Identity with
John Cusack.
In 2004, Peet was slated to appear in the sequel to The
Whole Nine Yards (aptly titled The Whole Ten Yards), and
act alongside Josh Brolin, Chloë Sevigny, and Gene Saks
in a then unnamed Woody Allen feature. The young actress
is also scheduled to play the leading role in John
McKay's 2005 romantic comedy Piccadilly Jim.
Her first major role was as "Jack" in the 1999
WB network series Jack & Jill (which aired for two
seasons). She also appeared in the eighth-season finale
of Seinfeld ("The Summer of George") as a
waitress whom Jerry Seinfeld meets. Her character is
notable for seemingly dating two men at once: Jerry and
her apparent roommate ("dude"), Lyle. Peet's
first role in a widely-released feature film came in
2000, with The Whole Nine Yards, elevating her status
from supporting actress to lead. That same year, she was
voted one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World
by People magazine. Peet was also in the movie Saving
Silverman with Jack Black and Steve Zahn. She also
starred in Something's Gotta Give in 2003. Peet played
Diane Keaton's daughter, and, at one point, Jack
Nicholson's lover.
In 2005, Peet appeared in the play This Is How It Goes,
filling in for Marisa Tomei at the last minute after six
days of rehearsal. In the same year, she also co-starred
in the films Syriana with onscreen husband Matt Damon,
and A Lot Like Love, with Ashton Kutcher. In February
2006, she was performing in Neil Simon's Broadway
production of Barefoot in the Park. Peet was a member of
the cast of the television series Studio 60 on the
Sunset Strip, which premiered on NBC on September 18,
2006. She stars with Matthew Perry, with whom she worked
in The Whole Nine Yards and The Whole Ten Yards, and
Sarah Paulson, with whom she co-starred in Jack &
Jill. In the show; Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, Peet's
character Jordan McDeere is the newly-appointed
president of the National Broadcasting System (NBS).
In 2006, she also starred along with Dermot Mulroney in
a Lifetime movie, Griffin and Phoenix, in which she
played a terminally-ill woman living life to the
fullest. Her most recent role was in 2007's The Ex, a
comedy co-starring Zach Braff in which Peet plays an
attorney who stays home to raise a new baby. She will
next co-star with Hilary Duff, Amanda Seyfried and Amber
Tamblyn in Safety Glass, a film set around the Space
Shuttle Challenger launch; filming is scheduled to begin
in New Hampshire and New York in the summer of 2007.
Personal life: Peet married screenwriter David
Benioff (who she met on a blind date) on September 30,
2006 and gave birth to a daughter, Frances Pen, on
February 20, 2007. The two live in Manhattan and Los
Angeles.
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