Amy Adams Biography With an enchanting voice, an enchanting face and enchanting demeanor in front of the camera it was only fitting that this fresh young actress should be selected to play the role of Princess Giselle in the Christmas 2007 movie, Enchanted. Amy Adams was born on August 20th 1974 in Vicenza, Italy while her parents, Kathryn and Richard, were stationed there while her father was a U.S. serviceman. In a family of seven children Amy was raised in Castle Rock, Colorado, where she studied dance. She was raised as a Mormon until her parents divorced when she was just eleven years of age. Amy’s break in show business came while she was working at the dinner theater in Chanhassen, Minnesota when she was spotted by a movie producer and within months she was cast in the 1999 movie Drop Dead Gorgeous where she starred alongside Kirsten Dunst, Diane Sawyer, and Kirstie Alley. Although not an instantly recognizable actress Amy has appeared in several Hollywood movies including Catch me if You Can in 2002 with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, Talladega Nights with Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen in 2006. Among her small screen appearances are, The Office, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, The West Wing, and Dr Vegas. Amy won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for her role in Junebug and the National Society of Film Critics award for "Best Supporting Actress" and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female.
Junebug was a huge turning point for Amy when she was also nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture and, in January 2006, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Christmas 2007 saw Amy landing the role of Princess Giselle in the Walt Disney Pictures fantasy which was a part animated and part live action film Enchanted. The movie also starred Patrick Dempsey as Robert, Susan Sarandon as the wicked witch and James Marsden as Prince Edward. The movie turns from cartoon characters into live actors in New York City where Princess Giselle becomes lost and waits for Edward to find her. Amy Adam’s next big project was the film adaptation of the Broadway play by John Patrick Shanley, Doubt, in which she played the role of Sister James, a novice nun who is conflict with Meryle Streep's mother superior, as she attempts to hang a charge of paedophilia on a priest played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, and the boy's mother portrayed by Viola Davis In her personal life Adams has been dating actor Darren LeGallo for three and a half years and announced her engagement in early 2009. ABB | 
