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Amy Lou Adams was born in Italy, American parents Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, while her father was an American soldier. She grew up in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and 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 to become a ballerina. However, she worked as a greeter at The Gap and a Hooters hostess to support themselves for finding work as a dancer at Boulder's Dinner Theatre and Country Dinner Playhouse in such productions as "Brigadoon" and "A Chorus Line". 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 theater work.

 
Nursing a pulled muscle that kept her from dancing, she was free to do for a role in Drop Dead Gorgeous audition (1999), which is near to the filming was in Minnesota. During filming, Kirstie Alley encouraged her to move to Los Angeles, where she soon won a role in the Fox television version of the film, Cruel Intentions (1999), played the role in the movie of Sarah Michelle Gellar , "Kathryn Merteuil". Although three episodes were filmed, never broadcast the troubled series.

 Instead, parts of the episodes were cobbled together and released as the direct-to-video Cruel Intentions 2 (2000). After more failed television commercials, she landed a major role in Catch Me If You Can (2002), playing opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. But this does not provide the breakthrough they might have hoped, will be offered with no work for about a year. She eventually returned to the television, and a member of the short-lived series, Dr. Vegas (2004).

 
Her role in the low-budget independent film Junebug (2005) (which was shot in 21 days) got her real attention, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as other awards. The following year, to its ability to look like a wide-eyed Disney animated heroine helped her to choose from about 300 actresses auditioned for the role of "Giselle" in the animated / live-action feature film, Enchanted (2007), which would prove to her big break his role. Her lively yet innocent portrayal allowed her to use her singing and dancing talents. Her performance garnered a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

 
Adams then appeared in the big production, Charlie Wilson's War (2007), and went on to act in the independent film, Sunshine Cleaning (2008), which at the Sundance Film Festival 2008 premiere. Her role as "Sister James" in Doubt (2008) brought her a second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress as well as nominations for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a British Academy Film Award. She appeared as Amelia Earhart in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and as a post-9/11 hot line counselor, aspiring writer, amateur cook and blogger Julie & Julia (2009). More recently she starred with Jason Segel in The Muppets (2011) and alongside Clint Eastwood in Trouble with the Curve (2012).