Amanda Peet Bio | Wiki
Amanda Peet is an American actress. She commenced her career with small parts on television and made her feature film debut in Animal Room in 1995. Amanda’s portrayal of Jill St. Claire in The Whole Nine Yards brought her wider recognition.
She has since appeared in a variety of films, such as Saving Silverman, High Crimes; Changing Lanes, and Igby Goes Down among others. On television, Amanda starred as Jacqueline Barrett on The WB’s Jack & Jill, as Tina Morris on HBO’s Togetherness, and as Betty Broderick on the second season of Dirty John in 2020.
Amanda Peet Age
Amanda was born on January 11, 1972, in New York, New York, United States. She is 50 years old.
Amanda Peet Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 6½ in (Approx. 1.69 m).
Amanda Peet Family
She was born in New York City, to her parents, Penny and Charles Peet Jr. Amanda’s mother was a social worker, and her father was a corporate lawyer. Her parents later divorced. Amanda’s father is a Quaker and her mother is Jewish, both are also atheists.
Her maternal great-grandfathers were Samuel Levy, a lawyer, businessman, and public official, who served as Manhattan Borough President, and Samuel Roxy Rothafel, a theatrical impresario and entrepreneur. At age seven, she relocated with her family to London, returning to New York four years later.
Amanda Peet Husband
Amanda married screenwriter David Benioff, son of former Goldman Sachs CEO and chairman Stephen Friedman, on September 30, 2006, in New York City. The couple has three children. The family lives in Manhattan and Beverly Hills.
Amanda Peet Education
She attended Friends Seminary and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in American history. In college, Amanda auditioned for acting with teacher Uta Hagen and decided to become an actress after taking Hagen’s class. During her four-year period of study with Hagen, Amanda appeared in the off-Broadway revival of Clifford Odets’s Awake and Sing! with Stephen Lang.
Amanda Peet Movies And Tv Shows
2010 How I Met Your Mother
2011 Bent
2012–2013 The Good Wife
2015–2016 Togetherness
2017–2020 Brockmire
2018 The Romanoffs
2020 Dirty John
2021 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
2021 The Chair
2010 Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
2010 Gulliver’s Travels
2012 To the Wonder
2013 The Way, Way Back
2013 Identity Thief
2015 Sleeping with Other People
Amanda Peet Seinfeld
Amanda appeared in the eighth-season finale of Seinfeld (“The Summer of George”) as a waitress whom Jerry Seinfeld meets. In 1999, she also starred in the fantasy romantic comedy Simply Irresistible, opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar. That film was panned by critics and flopped at the box office.
Amanda Peet Something’s Gotta Give
In 2003, she appeared with Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, and Keanu Reeves in the romantic comedy Something’s Gotta Give, directed by Nancy Meyers. Amanda played an auctioneer, working for Christie’s. The film was a critical darling and a major success at the box office, grossing US$125 million in North America.
Amanda Peet Ashton Kutcher
Amanda’s most significant film role in 2005 was that of a woman who becomes a successful photographer, opposite Ashton Kutcher, in the romantic comedy A Lot Like Love. It revolved around two people whose relationship slowly evolves from lust to friendship to romance over the course of seven years. While overall response was mixed, the Los Angeles Times found Amanda to be “charming and charismatic without being cloying or artificial.”
Amanda Peet Identity
She appeared in the film Identity Thief, as the wife of a man whose identity is stolen by a woman. Identity Thief is a 2013 American road comedy film directed by Seth Gordon, screenplay by Craig Mazin, story by Mazin and Jerry Eeten, and starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. The film tells the fictional story of Sandy Patterson, whose identity is stolen by an unnamed woman, Diana.
Amanda Peet The Chair
In 2021 Netflix released The Chair, a six-episode comedic dramatic series written by Amanda and produced by her, alongside David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is set at the fictional Pembroke University, “in what seems like New England”.
Amanda Peet Brockmire
From 2016 to 2020, she appeared in Brockmire, as the owner of a Minor League Baseball team. Brockmire is an American sitcom that premiered on April 5, 2017, on IFC. The show stars Hank Azaria, Amanda, and Tyrel Jackson Williams, with J. K. Simmons guest-starring in the third season. Azaria plays a baseball play-by-play announcer based on a character he created for a comedy web series in 2010.
Amanda Peet Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Amanda’s estimated net worth is $100 million.
Who Is Amanda Peet
She is a 50-year-old American actress. She commenced her career with small parts on television and made her feature film debut in Animal Room in 1995. Amanda’s portrayal of Jill St. Claire in The Whole Nine Yards brought her wider recognition. She is married to screenwriter David Benioff.