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Amy Smart Profile |
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Birth Date: March 26, 1976
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Birth Place: Topanga Canyon, California, USA
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Birth Name: Amy Smart
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Amy Smart was born in 1976 in Topanga Canyon, California. As
a young girl, she gained a reputation as a tomboy and was
the only girl on her Little League baseball team.
She started to model at age thirteen and moved into acting
after landing a role in the 1994 MTV Rock The Vote campaign.
She broke into show business with small roles in television
movies before making her feature debut in the 1997
independent film, The Last Time I Committed Suicide.
Smart later gained a small part in the Paul Verhoeven
science fiction vehicle Starship Troopers. In How to Make
the Cruelest Month, Smart played a seductress who betrays
her sister. The horror film Campfire Tales followed in 1998,
along with the Internet stalker thriller, Dee Snider's
StrangeLand, written, produced and starring the front man of
Twisted Sister.
Smart reached her widest audience, however, with a starring
role opposite James Van Der Beek in the 1999 sleeper teen
hit, Varsity Blues. The actress played Jules Harbor, a girl
who dreams of escaping the football-obsessed culture of her
town yet is linked to it as the sister of the high-school
quarterback and as the sweetheart of his replacement, played
by Van Der Beek.
Her portrayal of the intelligent Jules drew inevitable
comparisons to Katie Holmes, co-star to Van Der Beek on the
popular Dawson's Creek.
Smart would next be featured as a supporting love interest
in the touching comedy, Outside Providence, starring Alec
Baldwin. Those who enjoyed her performance got to see more
of her, when she was cast as Ruby, Noel's girlfriend on the
WB's Felicity, from the 1999 to the 2001 season.
In 2000, Amy starred in the disappointing NBC miniseries,
The '70s, before her appearance in the gross-out teen flick,
Road Trip. She can now be seen on the current video hit, Rat
Race, with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Whoopi Goldberg, and you can
catch her next in a small role in the upcoming film,
Interstate 60.
In addition to her acting career, Smart is a spokesperson
for an environmental group devoted to cleaning up the Santa
Monica Bay. |
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Other
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Close friend and former roommate of Varsity Blues (1999)
co-star Ali Larter.
Father: John, salesman
Mother: Judy, worked at the Jean Paul Getty museum.
Pets: two cats. Yogi and Nala
Was a speaker for Heal the Bay, an organization that works
on cleaning up the ocean, for seven years.
Engaged to boyfriend of 10 years, actor Brandon Williams.
Was named one of "Organic Style" magazines "Women with
Organic Style". The award is given to women who do things
inspiring, that makes the world a better place. She was
selected because of her work with the "Environmental Media
Association", "Humane Society" and "Heal the Bay". [2004]
Shares a birthday with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler,
singer Diana Ross and actress Keira Knightley.
Ranked #27 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the
World" (2002).
In addition to her work with Heal the Bay, she has also been
on television commercials in Michigan where her parents have
a place in the Northern Lower Peninsula in Leelanau. |
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