Amy Smart

Amy Smart

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Birth name: Amy Lysle Smart
Date of birth: 26 March 1976
Place of birth: Topanga Canyon, California, USA
Nickname: Amy
Height: 5′ 6″ (1.68 m)

Famous Quote: “I think it’s a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity. There’s something about blonds that triggers a lightheartedness. People can’t take you seriously. Brunettes are more mysterious. Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that’s so fascinating to me. I’m just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.”

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Biography:  Amy Lysle Smart (born March 26, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model. Actress Amy Smart was a relatively new arrival when she first gained notice for her supporting roles in the 1999 hit teen films “Varsity Blues” and “Outside Providence”. With her blonde, carefree California girl good looks, the Los Angeles native got her start in TV-movies including the NBC dramas “Seduced by Madness: The Diana Borchardt Story” and “Her Costly Affair” (both 1996). Her feature debut in Stephen Kay’s “The Last Time I Committed Suicide” screened at 1997′s Sundance Film Festival. 

This biopic of beat icon Neal Cassady, featuring Smart alongside stars Thomas Jane, Keanu Reeves and Claire Forlani, premiered on Cinemax later that year. Also in 1997, the actress appeared in Paul Verhoeven’s big-budget sci-fi actioner “Starship Troopers” and had an impressive turn in the vastly different, quirky independent “How to Make the Cruelest Month”. In the latter she played Dot, the graceful golden girl who seduces the one-time boyfriend of her sister, the troubled protagonist Bell (Clea DuVall). The by-the-numbers horror film “Campfire Tales” followed in 1998, along with the topically chilling but clumsily executed internet stalker thriller “Dee Snider’s StrangeLand”, written, produced and starring the titular Twisted Sister frontman as a deranged torturer who meets his victims in web chat rooms.

Smart was born in Topanga, California, the daughter of Judy, a museum worker, and John Smart, a salesperson. Inspired by her friend Vinessa Shaw, Smart studied ballet for ten years and enrolled in acting classes when she was 16, but began her career as a fashion model, working in Italy, France, Mexico, and Tahiti (Awards-winning spots for Club Med directed by Bruno Aveillan).

Smart’s first film role was for director Martin Kunert’s film Campfire Tales, followed by a very minor role in the 1997 film Starship Troopers as the co-pilot for (and friend of) Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards). Amy had a starring role in the mini-series titled The 70s, playing a young woman from Ohio. In 1999, Smart played the girlfriend of a popular football player (played by James Van Der Beek) in the film Varsity Blues. Again playing off her somewhat retro looks, she next assumed one of the leading roles in the NBC miniseries “The 70s” (2000) as one of four friends who graduate at the dawn of the ‘Me Decade.’ She received more mainstream exposure–literally, given a provocative topless scene–among youth audiences with her risqué but sweet turn in the vulgar Tom Green campus comedy “Road Trip” (2000), as the college girl who seduces Breckin Meyer, only to have their tryst end up on a videotape inadvertently mailed to Meyer’s girlfriend. She played a 70s hippie chick again in “Scotland, Pa.” (2001), writer-director Billy Morrissette’s loopy version of “Macbeth” set amid fast food outlets and shag carpets, and she was one of the wacky ensemble in “Rat Race” (2001), paired again with Meyer as a beautiful helicopter pilot helping him seek out a $2 million prize, only to prove to be imbalanced when she launches a bizarre, jealous air assault on her boyfriend when she sees him frolicking in a pool with an ex.

Also, Smart appeared in the series Felicity, as a girlfriend of Scott Foley’s character. She subsequently appeared in a number of films catering to a teenage audience, many of which were successful, including Road Trip (2000) and The Butterfly Effect (2004). In 2002, she was ranked #27 in Stuff magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World” and in 2004, she was nominated for “Best Kiss” at the MTV Movie Awards for her role in Starsky & Hutch. She was paired with Ashton Kutcher in the uneven sci-fi melodrama “The Butterfly Effect” (2003), playing Kutcher’s leading lady, who lives through various revised lives as his attempts to fix their troubled pasts alters the timeline. After a small part as a nurse in the romantic comedy “Win A Date With Tad Hamilton!” (2004), Smart provided mild titillation as a cheerleader in the action-comedy “Starsky & Hutch” (2004). 

In the conspiracy thriller “Blind Horizon” (2004), she played a nurse drawn to a wounded man (Val Kilmer) found in the desert who claims to have knowledge of an assassination plot against the President of the United States. A small role in the barely seen sex comedy “National Lampoon’s Barely Legal” (2005) was soon followed by a leading performance in the mainstream comedy, “Just Friends” (2005), wherein she played the high school best friend of a shy and overweigh teen (Ryan Reynolds) whose crush on her never went away even after growing up to become a suave and successful music executive. 

In 2005, Smart co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in the romantic comedy film Just Friends, which had a total domestic box office gross of $32,619,761 and a total worldwide box office of $50,817,598. Smart also had a small role in the American sitcom Scrubs, playing Jamie Moyer, the wife of a coma patient, and was nicknamed TCW (Tasty Coma Wife) by JD and his friends. JD has a short relationship with her following the death of her husband. On September 1, 2006, Crank was released, in which she plays the girlfriend of the lead character, Chev (played by Jason Statham).

Smart was a regular cast member in the short-lived 2006 CBS television series Smith. She also has voiced some of the characters in the animated series Robot Chicken, created by Seth Green. Smart appeared as Joy in the 2006 movie Peaceful Warrior, starring Scott Mechlowicz and Nick Nolte. Smart was the speaker for the Heal the Bay organization; she has also worked with the Humane Society and the “Environmental Media Association”, and was named one of Organic Style magazine’s “Women with Organic Style” of 2004.

Smart is engaged to actor Branden Williams, whom she has dated for over thirteen years. Her former roommate Ali Larter appeared alongside Smart in the film Varsity Blues and modeled with her in Milan. Smart is also friends with author and animal communicator Amelia Kinkade, and was acknowledged in Kinkade’s second book, The Language of Miracles. She is a vegetarian.

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