Amanda Peet was born on January 11,1972 and is an American actress.
32 Facts About Amanda Peet
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Amanda Peet began her career with small parts on television before making her feature film debut in Animal Room.
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Amanda Peet is married to American screenwriter David Benioff, with whom she has three children.
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Amanda Peet was born in New York City, the daughter of Penny, a social worker, and Charles Amanda Peet Jr.
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Amanda Peet's father is a Quaker and her mother is Jewish; both are atheists.
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At age seven, Amanda Peet relocated with her family to London, returning to New York four years later.
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Amanda Peet enrolled in HB Studio's teen acting program when she was 13.
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Amanda Peet attended Friends Seminary, and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in American history.
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Amanda Peet appeared in the November 1995 episode "Hot Pursuit" of Law and Order.
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For much of the late 1990s, Amanda Peet maintained a steady acting career in relatively obscure independent films co-starring more established actors.
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Amanda Peet appeared in the critically acclaimed film Playing by Heart, as part of an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, and Ryan Phillippe.
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Amanda Peet appeared in the eighth-season finale of Seinfeld as a waitress whom Jerry Seinfeld meets.
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In 1999, Amanda Peet starred in the fantasy romantic comedy Simply Irresistible, opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar.
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Amanda Peet appeared alongside Bette Midler and Nathan Lane in Andrew Bergman's Isn't She Great, a highly fictionalized account of the life and career of author Jacqueline Susann.
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Amanda Peet took on the role of a psychologist and the romantic interest of Jason Biggs in the comedy Saving Silverman, and portrayed a heroin-addicted trophy mistress in the dramedy Igby Goes Down, which garnered acclaim among critics.
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Amanda Peet played the wife of a successful, young Wall Street lawyer thriller film Changing Lanes, with Ben Affleck.
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In 2003, Amanda Peet appeared with Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Keanu Reeves in the romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give, directed by Nancy Meyers, playing an auctioneer, working for Christie's.
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In 2004, Amanda Peet starred in The Whole Ten Yards, the sequel to The Whole Nine Yards.
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Amanda Peet starred as an attorney who stays home to raise a new baby in the romantic comedy The Ex, which went unnoticed by critics and audiences.
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In 2012, a disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich, Amanda Peet reunited with John Cusack, to play his estranged wife.
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In 2010, Amanda Peet provided for one of the main characters of DVD sci-fi adventure film Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey, and starred as the love interest of the main character in the live-action family adventure film Gulliver's Travels, with Jack Black and Emily Blunt.
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In 2012, Amanda Peet headlined the television series Bent, as a recently divorced lawyer.
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From 2015 to 2016, Amanda Peet played Tina Morris on the HBO series Togetherness, which focused on the lives of two couples living under the same roof.
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From 2016 to 2020, Amanda Peet appeared in Brockmire, as the owner of a Minor League Baseball team.
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In 2021 Netflix released The Chair, a six-episode comedic dramatic series written by Peet and produced by her, alongside David Benioff and D B Weiss.
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In 2008, Amanda Peet volunteered to be a spokeswoman for Every Child By Two, a non-profit organization that advocates childhood vaccination.
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Amanda Peet's comments stirred controversy; in response, she apologized for using the term "parasites," but affirmed her position on the importance and safety of vaccinations.
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Amanda Peet has co-written a children's book Dear Santa, Love, Rachel Rosenstein about a Jewish girl during the Christmas season.
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Amanda Peet wrote a play Our Very Own Carlin McCullough, which ran for two months in 2018 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles to positive reviews.
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Amanda Peet married screenwriter David Benioff, son of former Goldman Sachs CEO and chairman Stephen Friedman, on September 30,2006, in New York City.
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Amanda Peet is a friend of actor Peter Dinklage, who starred in her husband's series Game of Thrones and whom she had met years earlier through friends at Bennington College.
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In 2008, Amanda Peet revealed that she has struggled with postpartum depression and that she has ADHD.