Anna Faris

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Date of Birth:	29 November 1976
Birthplace:	Baltimore, Maryland
Age:	33
First Name:	Anna
Last Name:	Faris
Build:	Slim
Height:	5' 5" (165 cm)
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Blonde
Star Sign:	Sagittarius
Claim to Fame:	Scary Movie
Occupation:	Actress
Religion:	Lutheran
Occupation Category:	Actress
Nationality:	American
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Anna Kay Faris (born on Nov. 29, 1976 (36 years ago)) is an American actress and singer known for her broadly comic roles.

Early years

Faris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Karen, an elementary school teacher, and Jack Faris, a sociologist. She has a brother, Robert, and grew up in Edmonds, Washington. Her parents encouraged her to pursue acting when she was young, and she gave her first professional acting performance at age 9, at the Seattle Repertory Theater. After attending Edmonds Woodway High School, she studied English literature at the University of Washington.

Career

Her first significant movie role was in the independent production, Lovers Lane (1999, 13 years ago). Her breakout role was the horror movie parody Scary Movie (2000, 12 years ago). The 5'5" Faris, a natural blonde, dyed her hair black for the filming of Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2, so that her character more closely resembled Neve Campbell (21 walls), who played the corresponding character in Scream, one of the movies that Scary Movie parodied.

Faris gained further popularity after she became recurring character, "Erica," in the final season of the popular American sitcom Friends. She also was in the critically acclaimed film, Lost in Translation—in which she plays an actress promoting the fictional action movie, Midnight Velocity.

Faris was in the movie Waiting..., with Ryan Reynolds and Justin Long. In 2005 (7 years ago), she appeared again with Reynolds in, Just Friends, playing a supporting role as a pop-diva singer named, "Samantha James." Faris' role as the motor-mouthed "LaShawn Malone," in Brokeback Mountain (2005, 7 years ago), brought her to the attention of a much wider audience. Faris starred with Uma Thurman (4 walls) and Luke Wilson in the feature movie My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006, 6 years ago). She appeared in the comedy Young Americans, playing Topher Grace's twin sister, in addition to, Mama's Boy, with Jon Heder, Jeff Daniels and Diane Keaton and in Smiley Face, with Adam Brody and John Cho. In 2007 (5 years ago), she produced and starred in The House Bunny, a movie with Happy Madison Productions about a retired Playboy bunny. In the summer 2007 (5 years ago) season of HBO's Entourage, Faris guest-starred as herself. Faris also made an appearance in a video on eatdrinkordie.com as herself with Internet wine guru Gary Vaynerchuk.

More recently, Faris co-starred as Seth Rogen's cosmetic counter girlfriend in Jody Hill's 2009 (3 years ago) comedy, Observe and Report.

Faris won the "Stonette of the Year" award at High Times magazine's Stony Awards, in Los Angeles, on Oct. 13, 2007 (5 years ago), for her role in Smiley Face.

In 2009 (3 years ago), she was nominated in MTV's Movie Awards for Best Comedic Performance for her movie House Bunny.

Personal life

In 2004 (8 years ago), Faris married actor Ben Indra, whom she met while working on Lovers Lane and whom she had dated since 1999 (13 years ago). She filed for divorce on Apr. 3, 2007 (5 years ago), citing irreconcilable differences. Faris married actor Chris Pratt, on Jul. 9, 2009 (3 years ago) in Bali. The couple were engaged in late 2008 (4 years ago).

Filmography

• Deception: A Mother's Secret
• Eden
• Lovers Lane
• Scary Movie
• Scary Movie 2
• May
• The Hot Chick
• Winter Break
• Lost in Translation
• Scary Movie 3
• Friends
• Southern Belles
• Waiting...
• Brokeback Mountain
• Just Friends
• Scary Movie 4
• My Super Ex-Girlfriend
• Smiley Face
• Mama's Boy
• Entourage
• The House Bunny
• Observe and Report
• Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
• Young Americans

Discography

• 2005 (7 years ago): "Forgiveness"
• 2005 (7 years ago): "Love From Afar"
• 2005 (7 years ago): "Just A Guy"

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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