Amanda Michelle Seyfried (December 3, 1985) is an American actress, singer and model who began her acting career at the age of 11. In 2004, her first film work, Mean Girl, was officially released, and she also began to participate in a number of independently produced films such as Nine Lives (2005) and Bruce Willie's Ultimate Gangster (2006). She also had a permanent role on UPN TV's show Detective Queen (2004-2006). Between 2006 and 2011, she worked on HBO's "The Big Husband." After that, Amanda participated in the musical theater film Mamma Mia.
Other films in which she has her main roles include Jennifer's Flesh (2009), Chloe (2009), The Breakup Letter (2010), Letter to Juliet (2010), Blood Red Riding Hood (2011), Time Planning Bureau (2011), Hard to Find (2012), Les Misérables (2012), Goddess of A-Movie Deep Throat (2013), A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) and Teddy Bear 2 (2015) et al.
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Amanda Syer Fried was born in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in 1985, where her mother Ann (née Sander) was a functional therapist and her father, Jack Sieyyyer Fried, was a pharmacist. She has German ancestry, but also some Scottish-Irish and English ancestry. She graduated from William Allen High School in Allentown in 2003. [7] She had an older sister, Jennifer Seayyfried, who was a member of a Philadelphia rock band called "Love City".
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I'm too skinny and I've had braces, so I know I'm not a cute model. I never thought I was pretty, I just thought it was fun to be a model, and I could use the money I earned to buy some good snacks. - Amanda Sieyer Fried's annotations for her modeling career
As a model for Amanda Sieyer Fried, she appeared with Layton Mister on advertising photos for clothing brands such as "Limited Too". From the age of seventeen, she stopped working as a model while working as a waitress in the retirement community. She took many vocal lessons and learned how to sing, and began training as a Broadway coach when she was a young girl. She then began performing in the strip play Guiding Light, although her name was not included in the cast list. Between 2000 and 2001, she successfully portrayed the standing character of "Lucy Montgomery" in the TV series As the World Turns, and Joni Stafford in ABC's All My Children from 2002 to 2003.
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In March 2008, she participated in the thriller comedy Jennifer's Flesh. In the film, she plays Anita "Needy" Lesnicki, the heroine's best friend. Jennifer's Flesh premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2009 and was released in the United States on September 18, 2009, but received mixed reviews. In the same year, she participated in the independent comedy film Boogie Woogie, in which she played Paige Oppenheimer, a leading role in a co-starring film. The film originally premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on June 26, 2009, and premiered in American cinemas on April 25, 2010. On February 22, 2009, she served as the presenter at the 81st Academy Awards and participated in the show. In early March 2009, director Zach Schneider wanted her to play the doll, the heroine of the movie "Pretty Girl", but abandoned the role due to the schedule problem of the TV series "Three Habitats Big Husband".
Amanda Sieyer Fried premiered Jennifer's Flesh at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival
She co-starred with Charney Titan in the film Parting Letter, an adaptation of Nicolas Spike's novel The Breakup Letter, which was released on February 5, 2010 and received widespread negative reviews. She wrote and sang the song "Little House" for the film, which was also included in the soundtrack of the "Breakup Letter" movie. Despite poor reviews, "The Breakup Letter" beat the "Avatar" record, selling $80 million in the United States and $115 million worldwide.
She also starred in the erotic thriller Chloe, playing the heroine Chloe, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2009 and was released in the United States on March 26, 2010. In the film, she plays a prostitute who is hired to test her husband because his wife thinks her husband is unfaithful to her. The publicity success of Chloe made it director Attom Igoryan's highest-grossing film. Her performances in the film were well received by film critics: it also helped her get more opportunities to perform in interesting roles in the industry.
In late 2010, she participated in the film Letter to Juliet, an adaptation of Lise and Ceil Friedman's novel, which received generally good reviews from film critics and grossed $80 million worldwide. She became famous, winning the "Most Breakthrough Actress of the Year" award at the 2010 MTV Film Awards, and was nominated for "Scared-As-S**T" and "Best Actress" for "Jennifer's Flesh" and "Parting Letter". In the same year, she was named to Forbes' "The 17 Stars To Watch" and was selected for three awards at the Teen Poll Awards, including "Best Actress" and "Choice Movie Chemistry" with Channy Titans, and she was also nominated for Best Romantic Comedy for "Letter to Juliet."
In January 2009, she began appearing in the comedy film A Woman of No Importance, based on Oscar Wilde, which was supposed to come out in 2011, but announced in 2010 that the film would not be completed due to lack of funds. In 2009, she was originally arranged to act in the movie "Male and Female", but because of the conflict of schedules, the role was eventually replaced by Miawas Koska. She also starred in the film "Blood Red Riding Hood," which was released in March 2009, but the film's reviews were mostly not very positive, but it still earned 90 million at the global box office with a budget of $42 million. She also starred in Andrew Nicole's film Time Planning Bureau, which was released in October 2011 and, despite its mixed reviews, grossed $170 million worldwide. In the same year, she also became the brand spokesperson for Clé de peau BEAUTÉ in Japan.
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In early 2012, Amanda Sieyer Fried starred in the thriller film Hard to Find. He later played Cosette in the musical film Les Misérables. The film received many positive reviews for her performance and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture. The film grossed a total of $440 million worldwide.
In 2013, Amanda Sieyer Fried participated in the performance of "Wedding Grand Union" and participated in the voice of "Forest Warrior". She also played legendary AV actress Linda Laphrey in the film "The Goddess of A" directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Her performance in the film has won unanimous praise from film critics.
In the same year, she also participated in the TV series "The End of Love". Originally, she agreed to perform in the movie Z for Zachariah, but in the end the role was replaced by Margot Robbie. She also worked as a model for Givenchy's brand that year.
In 2015, she starred with Mark Wahlberg and Seth McFarland in the comedy Teddy Bear 2, as well as peter Pan's mother in the film Peter Pan.
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She has a habit of collecting taxidermies, she has collected some ponies, foxes, owls, elk, goats, hybrid taxidermies deer, butterflies, etc., and Conan O'Brien also gave her a raccoon specimen in his show Conan.
From October 2013, she began a relationship with actor Justin Long. The two officially broke up in September 2015. In the same year, he became involved with actor Thomas Sadowski, got engaged and became pregnant in 2016, and gave birth to a daughter. She had a tattoo with handwritten words on her left foot.
In an interview with Allure magazine in October 2016, Amanda confessed that she suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic disorder, so she could not overcome her fear of going on stage, and even questioned why she appeared in show business. Since the age of 19, she has been taking the anti-depression drug "Lipon". After years of treatment, obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic disorder have improved a lot.