Amanda Peet

Amanda Peet

Birthday: 1972-01-11

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American actress, writer and producer. She began her career with small parts on television, and made her feature film debut in Animal Room (1995). Her portrayal of Jill St. Claire in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) brought her wider recognition, and she has since appeared in a variety of films, such as Saving Silverman (2001), High Crimes; Changing Lanes; Igby Goes Down (all 2002), Something's Gotta Give (2003), Identity (2003), Melinda and Melinda (2004), A Lot Like Love (2005), Syriana (2005), Battle for Terra (2007), Martian Child (2008), The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), Please Give (2010), Gulliver's Travels (2010), The Way, Way Back (2013), Identity Thief (2013), and Trust Me (2013). On television, Peet starred as Jacqueline Barrett on The WB's Jack & Jill (1999–2001), as Tina Morris on HBO's Togetherness (2015–2016), as Jules on IFC's Brockmire (2016–2020), and as Betty Broderick on the second season of Dirty John in 2020. She wrote and co-executive produced the Netflix series The Chair that was released in 2021. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amanda Peet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Syriana
Syriana

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous ...

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The Whole Nine Yards
The Whole Nine Yards

After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's r...

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The Whole Ten Yards
The Whole Ten Yards

Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his cul...

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Playing by Heart
Playing by Heart

In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak...

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Takedown
Takedown

Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information,...

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Identity
Identity

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the ...

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$5 a Day
$5 a Day

After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road....

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Saving Silverman
Saving Silverman

A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted b...

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Martian Child
Martian Child

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old ...

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Animal Room
Animal Room

Cynical and intelligent Arnold Mosk, a known drug user, is put into a disciplinary program at his hi...

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High Crimes
High Crimes

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accu...

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One Fine Day
One Fine Day

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father ...

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Something's Gotta Give
Something's Gotta Give

When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, ...

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Whipped
Whipped

Three to one may sound like fairly good odds, but it depends on the game. When the "one" is one very...

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Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

Dave, a young photon, who is forced out of the Sun on a journey of discovery. He must get to the Cas...

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The X Files: I Want to Believe
The X Files: I Want to Believe

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psy...

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A Lot Like Love
A Lot Like Love

On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that th...

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Igby Goes Down
Igby Goes Down

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old m...

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Melinda and Melinda
Melinda and Melinda

While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illu...

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The Ex
The Ex

When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at h...

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Please Give
Please Give

In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who liv...

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2012
2012

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of r...

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Body Shots
Body Shots

The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of p...

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Griffin & Phoenix
Griffin & Phoenix

A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent tog...

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What Doesn't Kill You
What Doesn't Kill You

Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strai...

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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, ...

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Battle for Terra
Battle for Terra

A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eye...

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Two Ninas
Two Ninas

After a long lonely period of involuntary celibacy, Marty Sachs decides that he has had enough of Ne...

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Southie
Southie

South Boston Irish bad boy Danny Quinn returns back home from New York and gets stuck between his pa...

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Isn't She Great
Isn't She Great

An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography o...

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Identity Thief
Identity Thief

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt...

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Whatever We Do
Whatever We Do

Twenty margaritas and 10 shots of tequila, with a few ounces of debauchery, bring four friends close...

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The Way Way Back
The Way Way Back

Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her b...

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Grind
Grind

When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh ...

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Trust Me
Trust Me

In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holl...

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Uta Hagen's Acting Class
Uta Hagen's Acting Class

Uta Hagen comments on acting...

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She's the One
She's the One

Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are e...

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Touch Me
Touch Me

Bridgette is an aspiring actress who teaches aerobics at a local gym that's run by the womanizing Ad...

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Sleeping with Other People
Sleeping with Other People

Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers...

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Changing Lanes
Changing Lanes

A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't s...

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Jump
Jump

Friends try to dissuade a suicidal man from jumping off a ledge, but they are not much better off th...

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The Atheist Delusion
The Atheist Delusion

Having to prove the existence of God to an atheist is like having to prove the existence of the sun,...

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1999
1999

On New Year's Eve 1999, as a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, e...

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Simply Irresistible
Simply Irresistible

After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her...

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The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in th...

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Origin of the Species
Origin of the Species

A weekend in a summer house, where six late twenties friends have reunited. A series of life crises ...

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Ellen Foster
Ellen Foster

After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her ...

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2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the ...

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The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the proj...

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Finishing The Novel
Finishing The Novel

Short film by David Wain, with Amanda Peet...

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Zoe Loses It
Zoe Loses It

A woman has a phone conversation with her friend recounting her nighttime adventure to discover why ...

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Fantasy Life
Fantasy Life

After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysi...

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