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Amanda Peet grew up in New York with her older sister and
their parents, Charles, a lawyer, and Penny, a social worker. She made an unconventional
stage debut at the age of three when she jumped onto the stage during a play
yet despite this early start she later studied acting more as a hobby than anything
else. She studied history at Columbia University where a drama professor convinced
her to audition for acting teacher Uta Hagen, with whom she later went on to
study for a four year period; during which time, she participated in the off-Broadway
revival of Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing". Voted one of the 50 most
beautiful people in the World in 2000 by People Magazine, she supported herself
during the audition phase of her career by waitressing and with the residual
checks she received from a Skittles candy commercial. Perseverance and hard
work paid off, and in 1995 she was cast in a guest-starring role on the hit
series "Law & Order" (1990). Her feature film debut came in 1995
in the movie Animal Room (1995). For a while after, Amanda continued to find
steady work, but also found herself appearing in a depressingly large number
of indie films that were never picked up. She did however, meet her boyfriend
Brian Van Holt on the set of one of those indies; the movie Whipped (2000).
But it was her turn as the dippsy hit-woman with the heart of gold in the hit
comedy The Whole Nine Yards (2000) opposite Bruce Willis, that took her from
supporting role status to leading lady.
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