Amanda Peet Biography

Amanda Peet was born in New York , her father, Charles Peet, was a lawyer while her mother Penny was a Hebrew worker. Amanda studied acting with actor Liev Schreiber and after that successively enrolled herself to the history University of Columbia, where she had the teacher Uta Hagen. In the period of her four-year period of studies she managed to get a part to the revival (off-Broadway) of the comedy of Clifford Odets Awake and Sing the taken Hagen.

Amanda Peet appeared for the first time in television in the publicity of the Skittles candies and successively it had the role of “guest star” in the police television film Law & Order. The debut on the great screen happened with the comedy Animal Room (1995), than large it had not happened and it did not arrive in Italy. Successively the Peet studied recitazione and taken part to numerous independent films, than they did not have much continuation.

The breakthrough of Amanda Peet happened in 1999, year in which she had the role of the protagonist in the television series Jack and Jill (it held than it engaged for two years). In the same year she was in the cast of Simply irresistibile films (with Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Body Shots, but she began to be much popular after FBI: Protection witnesses (2000) since after this film she was well viewed by the critics. She came noticed also for her beauty and the People considered her one of the most 50 beautiful women of the world.

In 2001 Amanda Peet was the protagonist of the adolescenziale comedy American Assatanata, in which for the first time she was casted in a comic role ( second time in Sballati of love was made). In 2004 she was the FBI time: Protection witnesses 2, sequel of the precedence, while in 2005 she was in the cast of the film Melinda and Melinda, directed by Woody Allen.

In February of 2006 she has taken part to the teatrale show Barefoot in the Park, directed by Neil Simon. 3 February of the same year has been announced that the Peet will participate to the dramatic program Study 60 on the Sunset Strip, lead from Aaron Sorkin, that will be sent in wave from the NBC towards the end of 2006.

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