Amy Adams was born on August 20, 1974. She was born in Italy and was raised in Castle Rock, Colorado. Her birth name is Amy Lou Adams. She was the fourth child. Her father loved to write songs and plays and she used to act in those plays. Now she is a well known American actress and singer.
At young age she sang in school choir,later on she also worked as a bartender and a dancer at dinner theaters in Minnesota. There she was discovered by the producer and she got her first chance of acting for the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous in the year 1999.
Thereafter, she had done many movies such as "Cruel Intentions 2", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "The Office", "Catch Me If You Can", "Talladega Nights", "The West Wing, Dr. Vegas", "Charmed" and "Smallville" and many more. She also made guest appearances in many television shows like That 70s Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The West Wing.
In the year 2005 independent film Junebug, playing Ashley Johnsten, for which she received critical acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
