Amanda Peet
Actor
Actor
Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972, height 5' 6½" (1,69 m)) is an American actress who has appeared in film, stage and television. After studying with Uta Hagen at Columbia University, Peet began her career in television commercials, and progressed to small roles on television, before making her film debut in 1995. Featured roles in films such as the 2000 comedy film The Whole Nine Yards brought her wider recognition.
She has appeared in a variety of films, including the 2001 comedy Saving Silverman, the 2003 romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give, the 2003 psychological thriller film Identity, the 2005 action-thriller Syriana, the 2006 comedy-drama remake Griffin & Phoenix, the 2007 romantic comedy The Ex, the 2008 science fiction film The X-Files: I Want to Believe and the 2009 disaster adventure drama 2012. She has also appeared in the 1999 drama series Jack & Jill and the 2006 drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Early life
Peet was born in New ... Show more...
Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972, height 5' 6½" (1,69 m)) is an American actress who has appeared in film, stage and television. After studying with Uta Hagen at Columbia University, Peet began her career in television commercials, and progressed to small roles on television, before making her film debut in 1995. Featured roles in films such as the 2000 comedy film The Whole Nine Yards brought her wider recognition.
She has appeared in a variety of films, including the 2001 comedy Saving Silverman, the 2003 romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give, the 2003 psychological thriller film Identity, the 2005 action-thriller Syriana, the 2006 comedy-drama remake Griffin & Phoenix, the 2007 romantic comedy The Ex, the 2008 science fiction film The X-Files: I Want to Believe and the 2009 disaster adventure drama 2012. She has also appeared in the 1999 drama series Jack & Jill and the 2006 drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Early life
Peet was born in New York City, the daughter of Penny (née Levy), a social worker, and Charles D. Peet, Jr., a corporate lawyer. Her parents are divorced. Her maternal great-grandfathers were Samuel Levy, a lawyer, businessman, and public official, who served as Manhattan Borough President, and Samuel Roxy Rothafel, a theatrical impresario and entrepreneur. Peet's father is a Quaker and Peet's 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 with Stephen Lang.
Personal life
Peet married screenwriter David Benioff on September 30, 2006, in New York City.They have two children; Frances Pen "Frankie", born in 2007, and Molly June, born in 2010. The family lives in Manhattan and Beverly Hills. Peet was maid of honor at Lauren Holly's marriage in 2001 to Francis Greco. Show less...
As: Herself
Runtime: 28 min.
Stars: Lake Bell | Toni Collette | Catherine Hardwicke | Amy Heckerling | Jill Soloway
As: Paula
Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Leslye Headland
Stars: Adam Scott | Jason Mantzoukas | Jason Sudeikis | Natasha Lyonne | Alison Brie
As: Joan
Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Nat Faxon | Jim Rash
Stars: Sam Rockwell | AnnaSophia Robb | Liam James | Toni Collette | Steve Carell
As: Marcy
Trust Me follows flailing Hollywood agent Howard, who seemingly strikes gold after signing the next big child star. What results is an unexpected ride through the nasty inner workings of Hollywood, as Howard desperately tries to make it in an industry that has no interest in recognizing his bumbling but ultimately genuine nature.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Clark Gregg
Stars: William H. Macy | Sam Rockwell | Amanda Peet | Saxon Sharbino | Clark Gregg
As: Trish Patterson
When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Seth Gordon
Stars: Melissa McCarthy | Amanda Peet | T.I. | Jason Bateman | Jon Favreau
As: Ranger (voice)
Quantum Quest centers on the story of Dave, a young photon, who is forced out of the Sun on a journey of discovery. He must get to the Cassini Space Craft and save it from the forces of the Void, only Dave does not know exactly what he must do or even where the Cassini Space craft is or what it is. The forces of the Void must destroy Cassini before it sends its great discoveries back to Earth,Dave is the ...
Runtime: 45 min.
Directed by: Harry 'Doc' Kloor | Dan St. Pierre
Stars: Amanda Peet | Chris Pine | Samuel L. Jackson | Hayden Christensen | James Earl Jones
As: Darcy Silverman
Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Rob Letterman
Stars: Amanda Peet | Emily Blunt | Jack Black | Chris O'Dowd | Jason Segel
As: Mary
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Nicole Holofcener
Stars: Oliver Platt | Catherine Keener | Rebecca Hall | Sarah Steele | Amanda Peet
As: Kate Curtis
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer ...
Runtime: 158 min.
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Stars: Oliver Platt | Amanda Peet | Chiwetel Ejiofor | John Cusack | Thandie Newton
As: Stacy Reilly
Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Brian Goodman
Stars: Donnie Wahlberg | Amanda Peet | Mark Ruffalo | Will Lyman | Ethan Hawke
As: ASAC Dakota Whitney
Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Chris Carter
Stars: Amanda Peet | Gillian Anderson | Billy Connolly | David Duchovny | Xzibit
As: Maggie
After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Nigel Cole
Stars: Amanda Peet | Dean Cain | Alessandro Nivola | Christopher Walken | Sharon Stone
As: Harlee
A recently-widowed, science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Menno Meyjes
Stars: Oliver Platt | Amanda Peet | John Cusack | Bobby Coleman | Joan Cusack
As: Maria Montez (voice)
A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Aristomenis Tsirbas
Stars: Brian Cox | Danny Glover | Chris Evans | Evan Rachel Wood | James Garner
As: Sofia Kowalski
When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to adjust to the demands of a very high-powered job, and he finds himself in an increasingly hostile office rivalry with Chip, Sofia's paraplegic former lover.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Jesse Peretz
Stars: Amanda Peet | Zach Braff | Jason Bateman | Mia Farrow | Charles Grodin
As: Phoenix
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Ed Stone
Stars: Amanda Peet | Dermot Mulroney | Alison Elliott | Blair Brown | Sarah Paulson
As: Julie Woodman
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an ...
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Stephen Gaghan
Stars: Matt Damon | George Clooney | Amanda Peet | Chris Cooper | Jeffrey Wright
As: Emily Friehl
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Nigel Cole
Stars: Taryn Manning | Amanda Peet | Ali Larter | Ashton Kutcher | Aimee Garcia
As: Susan
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Will Ferrell | Amanda Peet | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Radha Mitchell | Jonny Lee Miller
As: Jill St. Claire
Jimmy 'The Tulip' Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep; it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife, Cynthia.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Howard Deutch
Stars: Amanda Peet | Bruce Willis | Matthew Perry | Kevin Pollak | Natasha Henstridge
As: Marin
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother, Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Nancy Meyers
Stars: Keanu Reeves | Diane Keaton | Amanda Peet | Jack Nicholson | Frances McDormand
As: Paris
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: James Mangold
Stars: John Hawkes | Amanda Peet | Alfred Molina | John Cusack | Ray Liotta
As: Patty
Twenty margaritas and 10 shots of tequila, with a few ounces of debauchery, bring four friends closer to the truth than they have been for years.
Runtime: 25 min.
Directed by: Kevin Connolly
Stars: Tim Roth | Amanda Peet | Zooey Deschanel | Robert Downey Jr. | Scott Bloom
As: Rachel
A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Burr Steers
Stars: Jeff Goldblum | Amanda Peet | Kieran Culkin | Jared Harris | Claire Danes
As: Cynthia Delano Banek
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Roger Michell
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson | Ben Affleck | Toni Collette | Kim Staunton | Sydney Pollack
As: Jackie
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Carl Franklin
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Jim Caviezel | Adam Scott | Amanda Peet | Ashley Judd
As: Judith Fessbeggler
A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Stars: Amanda Peet | Steve Zahn | Jack Black | Amanda Detmer | Jason Biggs
As: Nina Harris
After a long lonely period of involuntary celibacy, Marty Sachs decides that he has had enough of New York and wants to pack up and run the family business in Maine. Yet before he leaves, he meets two available, attractive women, both named Nina. Nina Cohen shares many of the same eccentric interests as Marty, but she has grow gun-shy from one too many bad relationships. Blonde bombshell Nina ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Neil Turitz
Stars: Amanda Peet | Cara Buono | Ron Livingston
As: Mia
Three to one may sound like fairly good odds, but it depends on the game. When the "one" is one very irresistible woman and the "three" are three hopelessly smitten guys, the deck is pretty stacked. In the battle of the sexes, the first rule is to never underestimate the power of a woman.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Peter M. Cohen
Stars: Amanda Peet | Judah Domke | Brian Van Holt | Jonathan Abrahams | Zorie Barber
As: Karen
Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information, seeking more and more cyber-trophies every day, he constantly looks for bigger challenges. When he breaks into the computer of a security expert and an ex-hacker, he finds one - and much more than that...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Joe Chappelle
Stars: Tom Berenger | Donal Logue | Christopher McDonald | Skeet Ulrich | Angela Featherstone
As: Jill St. Claire
A mobster named Jimmy the Tulip agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison; he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbors figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit, suburban style.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
Stars: Amanda Peet | Bruce Willis | Michael Clarke Duncan | Matthew Perry | Natasha Henstridge
As: Debbie
An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann, the famed writer of "The Valley Of The Dolls" and other trashy novels. Facing a failing career, Susann meets a successful promoter who becomes her husband. After several failures to place her in commercials and a TV quiz show, he hits upon the idea for her to become a writer. ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Andrew Bergman
Stars: Stockard Channing | John Cleese | David Hyde Pierce | Nathan Lane | Bette Midler
As: Jane Bannister
The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the clubs seeking good times, companionship and maybe a little sex. But in the harsh light of the morning after, their worlds are thrown into a spin of confusion when hungover Sara accuses hard-partying Mike of date rape. Loyalties are tested as each among them ...
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Michael Cristofer
Stars: Jerry O'Connell | Amanda Peet | Sean Patrick Flanery | Ron Livingston | Tara Reid
As: Marianne Silva
South Boston Irish bad boy Danny Quinn returns back home from New York and gets stuck between his pals, who are supported by one Irish mafia clan, and his family, which are members of another.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: John Shea
Stars: Rose McGowan | Donnie Wahlberg | Amanda Peet | Will Arnett | Anne Meara
As: Chris
After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Mark Tarlov
Stars: Patricia Clarkson | Sean Patrick Flanery | Dylan Baker | Lawrence Gilliard Jr. | Sarah Michelle Gellar
As: Amber
Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show. Mark is dying of AIDS. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to pull the solitary Keenan into her orbit. An adulterous couple meet at hotels for evening sex. Hugh tells tall tales, usually tragic, to women in bars.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Willard Carroll
Stars: Sean Connery | Ryan Phillippe | Ellen Burstyn | Angelina Jolie | Gillian Anderson
As: Nicole
The century is coming to an end, and New York City is freaking out. "1999" takes place at a New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1999. As a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, everyone struggles to come to terms with their identities, relationships, and self-doubts before the millennium turns. The partygoers are astonished and reawakened as passions flare and ignite, ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Nick Davis
Stars: Jennifer Garner | Buck Henry | Allyson Downey | Dan Futterman | Matt McGrath
As: Bridgette
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: H. Gordon Boos
Stars: Erica Gimpel | Amanda Peet | Peter Facinelli | Michael Vartan | Kari Wuhrer
As: Patty
When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's bored young wife. Things only get worse when he tries to turn a quick buck in a one-time insurance fraud operation.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Chris Kentis
Stars: Frank Vincent | Paul Schulze | Adrienne Shelly | Billy Crudup | Saul Stein
As: Celia
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Michael Hoffman
Stars: George Clooney | Mae Whitman | Michelle Pfeiffer | Charles Durning | Alex D. Linz
As: Molly
Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fiance Heather is Francis's secret love. Though both brothers have beautiful wives, Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Edward Burns
Stars: Edward Burns | Cameron Diaz | Jennifer Aniston | John Mahoney | Michael McGlone
As: Debbie
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Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Craig Singer
Stars: Matthew Lillard | Lori Heuring | Dechen Thurman | Eddie Malavarca | Ryan Payne Bell