Check out Amy Adams’ audition for the movie that made her career take off!
Amy Adams has become one of Hollywood’s go-to actors. Adams began her career on stage performing in dinner theatre and later made her feature film debut in Drop Dead Gorgeous. After moving to Los Angeles and appearing in a series of television guest appearances and roles in B movies, Adams appeared as Brenda Strong in Steven Spielberg’s Frank Abagnale biopic Catch Me If You Can. Her breakthrough role came in the 2005 independent film Junebug, for which she received critical acclaim and her first of five Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.
Most recently Amy Adams won two more Golden Globes, BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for her supporting roles in the 2010 sports drama The Fighter and the 2012 psychological drama The Master. Her biggest success came in 2013 for portraying Lois Lane in the Superman movie Man of Steel, a supporting role in the Spike Jonze comedy, Her, and a con artist in David O. Russell’s crime film American Hustle; the last of these won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy along with a fourth BAFTA nomination, and a fifth Oscar nomination, her first in the Best Actress category.
Watch the audition tape for Amy Adams breakout feature film, ‘Junebug’ below:
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