Amy Smart (Amy Smart): biography, filmography and personal life of the actress (photo)

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The heroine of our today's story will be a charming American model and actress - Amy Smart. Most of the audience, she is known for her roles in films such as The Butterfly Effect, Adrenaline, Rat Race and Road Adventure. We invite you to get to know the actress better, plunging into the details of her career and personal life.

Biography of Amy Smart

The future world-famous actress was born in 1976, March 26, in Topanga, California. The full name of the actress sounds like Amy Lyle Smart. Her father, John, was in sales, and her mother, Judy, worked in a museum. As a child, Amy, along with her friend Vinessa Shaw, actively studied ballet for 10 years. At the age of 13, she began her modeling career. In this capacity, Amy starred in commercials and traveled extensively in France, Italy, Tahiti, Mexico and other countries. At the age of 16, young Smart began attending acting school.

Amy Smart:filmography, big screen debut

Thanks to the modeling business, the girl opened the way to the cinema. In 1996, she performed cameo roles in the television films Her Gorgeous Affair and Vicious Circle. Thanks to her talented acting, the young actress captivated both viewers and critics. In 1997, Amy was offered her first big role. It was a Steven T. Kay movie called Suicide. Smart's partners on the set were such Hollywood stars of the first magnitude as Keanu Reeves and Thomas Jane. In the same year, she took part in the work on several other projects: the fantastic film Starship Troopers directed by Paul Verhoeven, as well as the films Campfire Tales and High Voltage.

Continuing career

The attractive appearance and great talent of Amy Smart did not go unnoticed, and the young actress began to receive many offers to shoot in a variety of projects. The years 1998 and 1999 were very fruitful. During this period, Amy managed to star in the TV series "Happiness", the films "Screech. Well, a very scary movie” and “Gold Rush”, the thriller “Strangeland”, as well as the films “Student Team”, “First Love” and several others.

2000s

Amy Smart, whose films have always been a success with the audience, continued to work actively in the cinema and with the beginning of the new millennium. So, in 2000, she took part in the work on several projects - the short series "The Seventies" and the youth adventure comedy "Roadadventure.”

Very successful for Smart was 2001, when three tapes with her participation appeared on the screens at once: “Medical Academy”, “Scotland. Pennsylvania" and "Rat Race". The year 2002 was marked by the release of the film "Route 60", in which Amy got the mischievous character of the wish maker. Celebrities such as Kurt Russell, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, James Marsden, and Michael J. Fox were partnered with Smart on this project.

The following year, the actress delighted viewers by appearing in several episodes of the popular series "Clinic". At the same time, she played several minor roles in films such as Kyle Rankin and Ephram Potel's The Battles of Soldier Kelly, Blind Horizon and David M. Evans' Almost Legal.

On top of success

In 2004, the film "The Butterfly Effect" was released. This tape was very successful at the box office and became almost a cult for many viewers. Accordingly, the career of all the actors involved in the project rapidly went up. By the way, Evan Traborn and Ashton Kutcher became Smart's partners on the set. In the same year, Amy shone in another project - a comedy action movie by Todd Phillips called Killer Couple: Starsky and Hutch. Smart's superb performance as a nurse in the 2004 film Dating a Star also did not go unnoticed.

The following year, Amy again appeared on the big screen in the title role. We are talking about the comedy melodrama Witness at the Wedding directed by Stevan Schwartz. Partnersactresses on the set were such stars as Steve John Shepherd and Stuart Townsend. This film work of Amy turned out to be very successful, and soon Roger Kemble offered her a role in his film Just Friends. In 2005, another tape with the participation of Smart was released - the melodrama "More Than the Sky".

Amy's role in the 2006 action movie Adrenaline became an excellent film work and a great acting transformation. In this project, Smart played the girlfriend of the protagonist, played by the irresistible Jason Statham. The film was a huge success at the box office, and three years later, its creators decided to shoot the second part. So, in 2009, Adrenaline 2: High Voltage was released, where Amy Smart played the role of the protagonist's companion, already familiar to her.

From the film works of the actress of this period, one can also distinguish the 2006 films “Peaceful Warrior” and “Extra Class Thieves”, as well as the “horror” movie of 2008 called “Mirrors”. In addition, from 2005 to 2011, Amy took part in voicing the animated series Robot Chicken.

Recent works

2011 was a very fruitful year for Smart in the role, when several films were released at once: "Shameless", "Blood Brotherhood" and "House of the Rising Sun". Then there was a short break in Amy's career. In the current 2014, the premiere of a new film with the participation of the actress called "Crossfire" is expected.

Private life

Amy Smart is distinguished by constancy in relationships. So, for more than 15 years she met with a colleague in the acting workshop Brandon Williams. At the end of 2010, shemet model and TV presenter Carter Osterhaus, whom she soon began dating. A few months later, the couple announced their engagement, and in September 2011, the lovers got married. Today it is known that Amy Smart and her husband live happily, but they have no children yet.

Interesting facts about the actress

• Amy Smart is known to be left-handed. She is also a vegetarian.
• In 2002, 2006 and 2007, various well-known publications included Amy in the TOP 100 sexiest women in the world.
• In 2004, Smart won the MTV Channel Award in the Best Kiss category.
• Amy's best friend and former roommate is actress Ali Larter. The girls worked together as models in Milan, and also starred in the film Student Team.
• For seven years, Smart has been a spokesperson for Bay He alth, a charity dedicated to keeping California's coastal waters clean.