Amy Adams was born in the year 1974 and she is American actress. She is known because of dramatic and comedic performances. By the year 2017, she was highest paid actress of the entire world. She got many awards and they include Golden Globe Awards and she has five academy awards nomination with six British Academy Film awards.


She was born in the city of Vicenza in Italy and she was raised in the city of Castle Rock in Colorado. She was born as a fourth child in the seven siblings. She learnt to dance like a ballerina and when she reached 18 years old, she decided to join the musical theater career. She started the career in the feature film with the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous. When she relocated to go to live in Los Angeles, she made different guest appearance in the television and she took up the parts of the mean girls for different movies. The first major role was in Catch Me if You Can, it was from Steven Spielberg. She was playing opposite to Leonardo DiCaprio.

When she played in the Enchanted musical where she was a Disney princess, this become one of the major success where she was a leading lady. Afterwards, she played the optimistic and naïve women in different films and it included Doubt drama. Afterwards, she started to portray positive reviews in the sports film called the Fighter and in the psychological drama The master.

She played as Lois Lane in the superhero films for DC Extended Universe. She did win two Golden Globe Awards for being Best Actress and she played the seductive con artist in the American Hustle. She was the troubled painter called Margaret Keane in the Big eyes biopic of 2014. In the year 2016, she got the acclaim for the leading role of science fiction film arrival and then the psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals.

According to her stage roles, she was in the revival of The Public Theater where she was into the Woods in the year 2012. She was playing as the wife of Baker. In the year 2014, she become one of the 100 most influential people of the world according to Times magazine. She was also in the list of Forbes Celebrity 100.

For her personal life, Amy Adams got married to Darren LeGallo and she had a daughter with him. According to her biography, she is American by nationality since she was born to American parents, her father is Richard and her mother is Kathryn Adams. As a young child, she was moving from an army base to another but in the end the family settled at Castle Rock in Colorado and this is when she was only eight years old. Her net worth is 50 million and she is available on social media.

Last Modified: Mar 8, 2020


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