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Anna Faris
Faris at the 84th Academy Awards Red Carpet 2012
Born
Anna Kay Faris

(1976-11-29) November 29, 1976 (age 48)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation(s)Actress, singer, comedian
Years active1991–present
Spouses
Children1

Anna Kay Faris[1] (/[invalid input: 'icon']ˈɑːnə ˈfær[invalid input: 'ɨ']s/; born November 29, 1976)[1] is an American actress, comedian and singer. She is known for her starring role in the Scary Movie film series, as well as roles in The Hot Chick (2002), Lost in Translation (2003), Just Friends (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Smiley Face (2007), The House Bunny (2008), Take Me Home Tonight (2011), What's Your Number? (2011) and The Dictator (2012). She provided voice acting in the animated film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and played a recurring character on the television sitcom Friends.

Early life

Anna Faris was born in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] Her mother, Karen, was a special education teacher[2] at Seaview Elementary School[3] in Edmonds, Washington, where Faris was raised. Her father, Jack Faris, is a sociologist who worked at the University of Washington as a vice president of internal communications[2] and later headed the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association.[2][4] She has an older brother, Robert, who is also a sociologist and a professor at the University of California, Davis.[4][5] At age 6, Faris moved with her family to Edmonds, Washington.[3]

Her parents encouraged her to pursue acting when she was young,[6] and she gave her first professional acting performance at age 9, in a three-month run of Arthur Miller's one-act play Danger: Memory! at the Seattle Repertory Theater. She went on to play Scout in a production of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Issaquah, Washington, Village Theatre, and played title character in Heidi and Rebecca in Our Town. At 14, while attending Edmonds-Woodway High School, she appeared in a frozen-yogurt TV commercial. After graduating from high school in 1994, Faris attended the University of Washington and earned a degree in English literature.[3] Around this time, "my third or fourth job was a training video for Red Robin, which is a burger chain out West. I play, like, the perfect hostess. And I think they still use it," she said in May 2012.[7]

Film career

Faris at the premiere of Observe and Report at the 2009 South by Southwest Festival

Her first film role came shortly after college, in the independent production Lovers Lane (1999), in which she played an ill-fated cheerleader. Her breakout role came the following year in the horror-film parody Scary Movie (2000). She gained further popularity after she received the role of the recurring character Erica, the mother whose twin babies are adopted by Chandler and Monica Bing, in the final season of the American sitcom Friends. She said she was "cast last-minute" in the film Lost in Translation (2003), in which she played an actress promoting an action movie.[8] She went on to supporting roles in films including Brokeback Mountain and My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), and then starred in 2007's Smiley Face, in a role that won her "Stoner of the Year" at High Times magazine's Stony Awards, in Los Angeles, on October 13, 2007.[9]

In 2008, she produced and starred in The House Bunny, about a retired Playboy bunny.[4] In the summer 2007 season of HBO's Entourage, Faris guest-starred as herself in three episodes. She also made an appearance as herself in a video on eatdrinkordie.com with Internet wine guru Gary Vaynerchuk. She co-starred in a voiceover role in the 2009 animated film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and provided the voice of the computer-animated chipmunk Jeanette in the live-action Alvin and the Chipmunks features Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) and Chipwrecked (2011). She starred in and served as executive producer of the 2011 romantic comedy What's Your Number?, and has had starring or co-starring roles in several comedies.

In the media

Faris has appeared on the covers of Raygun, Playboy[10], Self[11], Cosmopolitan[12] and other magazines. She was listed as No. 57, #39, and No. 42 in Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" in 2004, 2009, and 2010 respectively. In 2009, she was ranked No. 60 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World", and ranked No. 96 in 2010. Ask Men featured her as No. 78 on "100 Most Desirable Women in the World" in 2009.

In 2010, Cosmopolitan magazine named her "the Cosmo’s Fun Fearless Female of the Year" – stating that “She makes us laugh – and cringe – by pushing the limits of comedy in a way no other actress can”.[13]

Tad Friend described her in The New Yorker as "Hollywood's most original comic actress".[6]

Personal life

During filming of the 1999 independent horror film Lovers Lane in London, Faris met her first husband, Ben Indra.[3] They began dating in that year and were married in June 2004. She filed for divorce in April 2007, citing irreconcilable differences.[14] As part of their divorce agreement, which was finalized in February 2008, Faris agreed to pay Indra $900,000 in addition to other property and acting royalties.[15]

Faris met her second husband, actor Chris Pratt, on the 2007 set of Take Me Home Tonight.[6] They became engaged in January 2009,[16] and married on July 9, 2009 in a small ceremony in Bali.[17] The couple has a son, Jack, born on August 25, 2012.[18]

Filmography and awards / nominations

Film credits
Title Year Role Notes
Eden[19] 1996 Dithy
Lovers Lane 1999 Janelle Bay
Scary Movie 2000 Cindy Campbell
Scary Movie 2 2001
May 2002 Polly
The Hot Chick 2002 April
Winter Break 2003 Justine
Lost in Translation 2003 Kelly
Scary Movie 3 2003 Cindy Campbell
Southern Belles 2005 Belle
Waiting... 2005 Serena
Brokeback Mountain 2005 Lashawn Malone
Just Friends 2005 Samantha James
Scary Movie 4 2006 Cindy Campbell
My Super Ex-Girlfriend 2006 Hannah Lewis Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Fight (with Uma Thurman)
Guilty Hearts 2006 Jane Conelly
Smiley Face 2007 Jane F.
Mama's Boy 2007 Nora Flanagan
The House Bunny 2008 Shelley Darlington
The Spleenectomy 2008 Danielle/Dr. Fields short
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel 2009 Cassie
Observe and Report 2009 Brandi
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2009 Sam Sparks Voice role
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 2009 Jeanette Miller
Yogi Bear 2010 Rachel Johnson
Take Me Home Tonight 2011 Wendy Franklin
What's Your Number? 2011 Ally Darling Also executive producer
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 2011 Jeanette Miller Voice role
The Dictator 2012 Zoey
Movie 43 2013[20] Vanessa post-production
I Give It A Year 2013 TBA post-production
Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers 2014 Sam Sparks filming
Television credits
Title Year Role Notes
Deception: A Mother's Secret 1991 Liz TV movie
King of the Hill 2002–2004 Lisa / Stoned Hippie Chick / Teen Girl Hippie
Friends 2004 Erica Season 10
Blue Skies 2005 Sarah TV movie
Entourage 2007 Herself Season 4
Saturday Night Live 2011 Herself Host

Other awards

Discography

Title Year Album Label
"Nobody Does It Better" 2003 Lost in Translation (soundtrack) Emperor Norton Records
"Forgiveness" 2005 Just Friends (soundtrack) New Line Records
"Love From Afar" 2005 Just Friends (soundtrack) New Line Records
"Just A Guy" 2005 Just Friends (DVD) New Line Records
"Old-Fashioned Girl" 2007 Mama's Boy (soundtrack) Lakeshore Records

References

  1. ^ a b c "Anna Faris Biography (1976–)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved October 14, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c Wulff, Jennifer (July 23, 2001). "Scream Queen". People.
  3. ^ a b c d Krug, Kurt Anthony (April 21, 2006). "Edmonds actress having fun with "Scary" movies, growing career". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ a b c Payne, Patti (August 31, 2008). "Anna Faris portrays an exiled Playboy playmate in the new movie, "The House Bunny"". Puget Sound Business Journal. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012. She has an older brother, Robert, 31, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ "Robert Faris, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of North Carolina". University of California, Davis. Archived from the original on April 16, 2010. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
  6. ^ a b c Friend, Tad (April 11, 2011). "Funny Like a Guy: Anna Faris and Hollywood's woman problem". The New Yorker. Condé Nast: 52–61. Retrieved September 17, 2011. (subscription required)
  7. ^ Lovece, Frank (May 10, 2012 online; May 13, print). "Fast Chat: Anna Faris' 'Dictator' role". Newsday. Archived from the original on May 30, 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help) (subscription required)
  8. ^ "Interview: Anna Faris". The A/V Club. April 7, 2009. Archived from the original on January 4, 2010. {{cite magazine}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ "Seth Rogen is Stoner of the Year". Celebstoner.com. Archived from the original on January 20, 2008.
  10. ^ "Anna Faris Attacked For Not Going Nude". ShowbizSpy.com. September 28, 2009. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  11. ^ "Anna Faris Looking VERY Fit on Self Magazine's April Cover". bittenandbound.com. March 28, 2009. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  12. ^ "Anna Faris Cosmopolitan US February 2010". MagXone.com. January 11, 2010. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  13. ^ "Anna Faris: Cosmo's Fun Fearless Female of the Year". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved September 5, 2012.
  14. ^ Finn, Natalie (April 3, 2007). "Scary Movie's Faris Haunted by Divorce". E! Online. Archived from the original on June 2, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ "Anna Faris Finalizes Divorce". People. February 19, 2008. Archived from the original on March 29, 2011. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  16. ^ Jones, Katharine (January 30, 2009). "Anna Faris engaged to beau Chris Pratt". New York Daily News. Retrieved October 9, 2011. {{cite news}}: |archive-url= is malformed: liveweb (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  17. ^ Garcia, Jennifer (August 12, 2009). "Anna Faris Is Married!". People. Archived from the original on March 28, 2011. Retrieved October 9, 2011. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  18. ^ Garcia, Jennifer (August 25, 2012). "Anna Faris Welcomes a Baby Boy". People. Retrieved August 25, 2012.
  19. ^ "Full cast and crew for Eden". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
  20. ^ McNary, Dave (March 29, 2012). "Relativity shifts Farrelly/Wessler comedy". Variety. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012. {{cite magazine}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  21. ^ McClintock, Pamela (April 18, 2012). "Anna Faris Feted With CinemaCon Comedy Star of the Year Award". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012. {{cite magazine}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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