Amanda Crew



Amanda Crew (born June 5, 1986) is a Canadian television and film actress. She is best known for her role on the television series 15/Love and Whistler, and in the feature-length films Final Destination 3, She's The Man, Sex Drive, The Haunting in Connecticut, and Charlie St. Cloud. She has also made cameos in shows like Life as We Know It, Suits and Smallville.



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[hide]  *1 Early life  ==Early life[edit] == Crew was born in Langley, British Columbia. Her mother is a legal secretary and her father is a telecom worker.[1]  Crew attended Brookswood Secondary School in Langley. She began her acting career when she was cast in the musical Dragon Tales during her fourth grade in elementary school. Three agents contacted her, and she has been acting ever since. She did a Coca-Cola commercial and acted in stage plays like Stalling, Cordstons Courts, and Langley, the Musical. Crew attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.[2] [3] ==Career[edit] == ===Television[edit] === Crew got her big break at age 19 for playing Tanis McTaggart on the YTV teen dramedy series 15/Love. After leaving the show in 2005, she guest starred on the television series Life as We Know It and Smallville. From 2006 to 2008, she played Carrie Miller on the CTV drama series Whistler, for which she won Best Lead Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series at theVancouver-based Leo Awards.[4]  She also guest starred as Lola Jensen in the legal drama Suits. ===Film[edit] === Crew made her motion picture debut in the 2006 horror film Final Destination 3. During casting, she originally auditioned for the role of goth girl Erin Ulmer, but ended up switching roles and landed the part of the protagonist's sister, Julie Christensen, and actress Alexz Johnson was cast as Erin. Despite mixed reviews from critics, the film went on to international success, grossing $19,173,094 in its opening weekend, and eventually grossing $117,719,158 worldwide,[5] making it her highest grossing film to date.[6]
 * 2 Career
 * 2.1 Television
 * 2.2 Film
 * 3 Filmography
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">Throughout 2006, Crew continued to star in several successful Hollywood productions, including a cameo in John Tucker Must Die starring alongside Brittany Snow and Ashanti, a supporting role as Kia in She's the Man alongsideAmanda Bynes and Channing Tatum, and her first lead role as Felicia Alpine in Sex Drive alongside Clark Duke and Seth Green. In 2009, Crew starred as Wendy Campbell in the horror film The Haunting in Connecticut alongsideVirginia Madsen and Kyle Gallner. The film opened at #2 at the box office and ultimately grossed $55,325,526 in the United States and Canada alone, and went on to make $72,742,856 worldwide.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:1.5em;">In 2009, Crew starred opposite Zac Efron and Kim Basinger in Charlie St. Cloud, which was released on July 30, 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  Despite negative reviews, the film was modest box office success, grossing $46,090,442 worldwide. In 2013, Crew landed a supporting role as Julie in the Steve Jobs biopic Jobs, starring alongside Ashton Kutcher and James Woods. In 2014, Crew reunited with Charlie St. Cloud co-star Ray Liotta and Sex Drive co-star Seth Green for the historical drama The Identical, also starring opposite Brian Geraghty and Ashley Judd. ==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] ==