amy smart

Amy's dad, John, was a salesman. Her mother, Judy, worked at the J. Paul Getty museum. She has a brother, Adam, who is an aspiring artist. She was known as a tomboy as a youngster and was the only girl on her Little League baseball team. She started modeling at age 13 and moved into acting after getting a role in MTV's 1994 "Rock The Vote" campaign in which she played a strung-out supermodel. She had her first big hit with 1999's Varsity Blues" and then moved into the tv series "Felicity". Amy is a spokeswoman for the non-profit group "Heal The Bay", which is devoted to cleaning up the Santa Monica Bay.

Amy was a relatively new arrival when she first gained notice for her supporting roles in the 1999 hit teen films Varsity Blues (1999) and Outside Providence (1999). With her blonde, carefree California girl good looks, the Los Angeles native got her start in TV-movies and made her feature debut in Stephen T. Kay's The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) screened at 1997's Sundance Film Festival alongside Keanu Reeves. She was briefly seen in Paul Verhoeven's big-budget sci-fi actioner "Starship Troopers" and had an impressive turn in the vastly different, quirkily independent How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998). In the latter she played Dot, the graceful golden girl who seduces the one-time boyfriend of her sister, the troubled protagonist Bell (Clea DuVall). The by-the-numbers horror film Campfire Tales (1997) followed in 1997, along with the topically chilling but clumsily executed internet stalker thriller, Dee Snider's Strangeland (1998), written, produced and starring the titular Twisted Sister frontman as a deranged torturer who meets his victims in web chatrooms. Amy reached her widest audience with a co-starring role opposite Der Beek, James Van in Brian Robbins (I)' surprise box office hit "Varsity Blues (1999)". The actress played Jules Harbor, a girl who longs for life beyond her small town's high school football-obsessed culture but who, as sister of the injured star quarterback (Paul Walker) and girlfriend of his idealistic replacement (Van Der Beek), is tied to it. Her next role was that of Shawn Hatosy's upper-class love interest in Michael Corrente's poignant 1970s era comedy "Outside Providence (1999)". Based on Peter Farrelly's novel, the film followed a working-class teenaged boy (Hatosy) sent by his abrasive but loving father (Alec Baldwin) to a tony prep school after running into trouble at home.

FIlmography
After School Special (2002) .... Naomi
Interstate 60 (2002) .... The Girl
Rat Race (2001) .... Tracey Faucett
"Andy Dick Show, The" (2001) TV Series .... Herself (2001)
Scotland, PA. (2001) .... The Hippie Stacy
2000 MTV Movie Awards (2000) (TV) .... Presenter
Road Trip (2000) .... Beth
"70s, The" (2000) (mini) TV Series .... Christie Shales
Brookfield (1999) (TV) .... Daly Roberts (Series Regular)
Outside Providence (1999) .... Jane Weston
Varsity Blues (1999) .... Jules Harbour
"Felicity" (1998) TV Series .... Ruby (1999-2001)
Strangeland (1998) .... Angela
... aka Dee Snider's StrangeLand (1998) (USA: promotional title)
Starstruck (1998) .... Tracey Beck
Circles (1998)
How to Make the Cruelest Month (1998) .... Dot Bryant
Campfire Tales (1997) .... Jenny (segment "The Hook")
High Voltage (1997) .... Molly
Starship Troopers (1997) .... Lieutenant Lumbreiser
Last Time I Committed Suicide, The (1997) .... Jeananne
A & P (1996) .... Queenie
Her Costly Affair (1996) (TV) .... Dee
Seduced by Madness (1996) (TV) .... Girl #1
... aka Seduced by Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story (1996) (TV)

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