Amanda Peet
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Amanda Peet
Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American film and television actress.
Amanda Peet ’s first screen performance was a television commercial for Skittles. Amanda Peet early roles included a guest role on the television series Law & Order. Amanda Peet made her film debut in Animal Room (1995). Amanda Peet maintained a steady acting career in relatively obscure indie movies.
Her first major role was as "Jack" in the 1999 WB network series Jack & Jill (which aired for two seasons). Amanda Peet also appeared in the eighth-season finale of Seinfeld ("The Summer of George") as a waitress whom Jerry Seinfeld meets. Amanda Peet character is notable for seemingly dating two men at once: Jerry and her apparent roommate ("dude"), Lyle. Amanda Peet ’s first role in a widely-released feature film came in 2000, with The Whole Nine Yards, which, together with the cult film Whipped, helped to elevate 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.Amanda Peet was also in the movie Saving Silverman with Jack Black and Steve Zahn. Amanda Peet also starred in Something’s Gotta Give in 2003, playing Diane Keaton’s daughter, and, at one point, Jack Nicholson’s girlfriend.
In 2005,Amanda 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 alongside Matt Damon and George Clooney, 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.
Amanda 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. Amanda Peet starred 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 Studio 60, Amanda Peet ’s character Jordan McDeere was the newly-appointed president of the National Broadcasting System (NBS). In 2006, she also starred along with Dermot Mulroney in Griffin and Phoenix, where she played a terminally-ill woman living life to the fullest.
In 2007’s The Ex, a comedy co-starring Zach Braff,Amanda Peet played an attorney who stays home to raise a new baby. In 2008,Amanda Peet went on to play an FBI agent in The X-Files: I Want to Believe. In 2008 she was hired by the American Academy of Pediatrics to be an advocate for the "Every Child by Two" vaccination campaign.
