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Amanda Bynes was called as Amanda Laura Bynes at her birth. She was born on April 3, 1986 in Thousand Oaks, California, USA. She was born to Rick, a dentist and a comedy enthusiast who ... encouraged her children to perform. So Amanda's interest for comedy can be attributed to his father. She started performing at a very young age. She starred in community productions of plays like To Kill a Mockingbird, The Music Man and The Secret Garden, and became initiated into the art of getting laughs during classes at comedy "camps" like The Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory, both in Los Angeles.
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Amanda Bynes has been cast as the dorky Penny Lou Pingleton in the upcoming big-screen version of the musical Hairspray, according to USA Today. She joins previously announced cast members John Travolta and Queen Latifah.
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Bynes headlines Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, where she develops such memorable characters as Judge Trudy, a parody of TV's Judge Judy, and Penelope Taynt, a borderline stalker of Amanda Bynes. Albie Hecht, Nickelodeon's film and TV president, says, "She's a little Carol Burnett." By its second season, the show is the most popular in its time slot for 6 to 11-year-olds. "She's one of the blessings I count each day," Hecht says in 2000. "She's funny--and funny is money." For three years, she wins the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award for Favorite TV Actress.
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Amanda Bynes has received the Favorite Television Actress honor four years in a row from Nickelodeon's Kids’ Choice Awards for “The Amanda Show”. She ... won the award for Favorite Movie Actress for the film “What A Girl Wants”. Bynes was featured on the cover of the July 2003 edition of Vanity Fair.
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Among the guest stars who appeared during this period were former cast members Kenan Thompson and Amanda Bynes. Thompson reprised his Principal Pimpell character in a Harry Bladder sketch, lunch lady Miss Pidlin in a Sugar & Coffee sketch, and Superdude. Bynes appeared as herself in a Sugar & Coffee sketch and reprised Ashley in a blooper "from the late-Nineties." Other special guest stars included, in no particular order: Melissa Joan Hart, Frankie Muniz, Tony Hawk, David Arquette,Britney Spears, Aaron Carter, Will Friedle, Christina Vidal, Matthew Lillard, Ray Romano, Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara (Spy Kids), Nick Carter, Justin Timberlake, Buddy Hackett, Barry Watson, Jennifer Love Hewitt , Tom Green, and Brittany Snow[11] Some viewers didn't appreciate the intensified emphasis on special guest stars since All That (unlike the 90 minute long Saturday Night Live or even the 60 minute long MADtv) was only a 30 minute program (including commercials).[12]
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Amanda Jo Kus, daughter of Frank and Barbara Kus, Dallas, is celebrating her 1 1th birthday today, Oct. 10. Her sister, Jessica Theresa Kus, celebrated her eighth birthday Sept. 27. Amanda and Jessica are the granddaughters of Wilbur and Beverly Houck, Sugar Run; Frank and Janet Kus, Sugar Notch; the late Theresa Kus. They have a brother, Frank, 15.
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