All All. Sign In. List activity. Amy Adams. Actress Producer Executive Arrival She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as smaller amounts of Danish, Swiss-German, and Norwegian, ancestry.
Adams sang in the school choir at Douglas County High School and was an apprentice dancer at a local dance company, with the ambition of becoming a ballerina. It was there that she was spotted by a Minneapolis dinner-theater director who asked her to move to Chanhassen, Minnesota for more regional dinner theatre work. Nursing a pulled muscle that kept her from dancing, she was free to audition for a part in Drop Dead Gorgeous , which was filming nearby in Minnesota.
During the filming, Kirstie Alley encouraged her to move to Los Angeles, where she soon won a part in the Fox television version of the film, Cruel Intentions , in the part played in the film by Sarah Michelle Gellar , "Kathryn Merteuil". Although three episodes were filmed, the troubled series never aired.
Instead, parts of the episodes were cobbled together and released as the direct-to-video Cruel Intentions 2 But this did not provide the break-through she might have hoped for, with no work being offered for about a year.
She eventually returned to television, and joined the short-lived series, Dr. Vegas Her role in the low-budget independent film Junebug which was shot in 21 days got her real attention, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as other awards. Her vivacious yet innocent portrayal allowed her to use her singing and dancing talents.
