Anna Faris



Anna Kay Faris[1]  ( /ˈɑːnə ˈfærɨs/ [2] ; born November 29, 1976)[1]  is an American actress and singer. She is known for her comedic roles in the Scary Movie film series, Lost in Translation, The House Bunny, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Yogi Bear, What's Your Number?, The Dictator, and I Give It a Year.



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[hide]  *1 Early life  ==Early life[edit] == Faris was born in Baltimore, Maryland.[1]  Her family moved to Edmonds, Washington when Faris was six years old.[3]  Her father, Jack, was a sociologist who worked at the University of Washington as a vice president of internal communications<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-people_4-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  and later headed the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-people_4-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-af1_5-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  and her mother, Karen, was a special education teacher<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-people_4-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  at Seaview Elementary School<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-krug_3-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  in Edmonds. Faris has an older brother, Robert, who is also a sociologist and a professor at the University of California, Davis.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-af1_5-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]
 * 2 Career
 * 3 In the media
 * 4 Personal life
 * 5 Filmography
 * 5.1 Film
 * 5.2 Television
 * 6 Discography
 * 7 Awards and nominations
 * 8 References
 * 9 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">Her parents encouraged her to pursue acting when she was young,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYer2011_7-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  and she gave her first professional acting performance at the age of 9 in a three-month run of Arthur Miller's one-act playDanger: 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 the title character in Heidi and Rebecca in Our Town. While attending Edmonds-Woodway High School, Faris 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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-krug_3-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] ==Career<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == Faris in January 2007<p style="line-height:1.5em;">Faris' first film role came shortly after college with her independent film, Lovers Lane in 1999, in which she played an ill-fated cheerleader. Her breakout role came the following year in 2000 in the horror-film parody Scary Movie where she played Cindy Campbell. She appeared on the TV series Friends in the recurring role of Erica, the mother whose twin babies are adopted by Chandler and Monica. She also appeared in Shallow Hal in 2001.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">In 2003, she said she was "cast last-minute" in the film Lost in Translation, in which she played an actress promoting an action movie.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-avclub_9-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  She appeared in the films Waiting... and Just Friends both alongside Ryan Reynolds. She went on to supporting roles in film the 2006 films Brokeback Mountain and My Super Ex-Girlfriend. She 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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  In 2008, she produced and starred in The House Bunny, about a retired Playboy bunny.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-af1_5-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  In the summer 2007 season of HBO'sEntourage, 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.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">She voiced Sam Sparks in the 2009 animated film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, the computer-animated chipmunk Jeanette Miller in the live-action Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011). In 2011, she starred in and served as executive producer of the 2011 romantic comedy What's Your Number? alongside Chris Evans. In 2012, she starred alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in the The Dictator. She appeared in the comedy film Movie 43 in the segment "The Proposition"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-movie43_11-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  alongside her husband Chris Pratt. In 2013, she appeared in I Give It a Year and reprises her role as Sam Sparks in the sequel Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. She plays the main role in the sitcom series Mom as Christy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12] ==In the media<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == Faris at the premiere of Observe and Report at the 2009 South by Southwest Festival<p style="line-height:1.5em;">Faris has appeared on the covers of Raygun, Playboy,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13]  Self,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  Cosmopolitan<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  and other magazines. She was listed as No. 57, No. 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”.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]  Tad Friend described her in The New Yorker as "Hollywood's most original comic actress".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYer2011_7-1" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == <p style="line-height:1.5em;">While filming Lovers Lane in London, Faris met her first husband, Ben Indra.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-krug_3-3" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  They began dating in that year and were married in June 2004, but they divorced in April 2007, citing irreconcilable differences.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17]  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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]  Faris met her second husband, actor Chris Pratt, on the set of Take Me Home Tonight.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYer2011_7-2" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  They became engaged in January,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19]  and married on July 9, 2009 in a small ceremony in Bali.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-People2009_20-0" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]  The couple have a son named Jack (born on August 17, 2012).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21] ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == ===Film<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ===Television<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==