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Amanda Peet is a new mom. The "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" actress gave birth Tuesday to daughter Frances Pen, who weighed 6 pounds, 10 ounces, Peet's publicist Brit Reece said Friday. Peet, 35, and screenwriter David Benioff were married last fall.
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From All Movie Guide: Born on January 11th, 1972, Amanda Peet grew up in New York and made a decidedly unconventional debut into showbiz: At three-years-old, a thoroughly uninvited Peet jumped onto a stage during the middle of a play. Despite the auspicious beginning, Peet treated acting as more of a hobby than anything else, and only began to consider it a potential career after her drama professor at Columbia University encouraged her to audition for renowned acting teacher Uta Hagen. Peet studied with Hagen for four years, during which time she participated in the off-Broadway revival Awake and Sing. Though she would eventually be voted one of the year's 50 most beautiful people in a 2000 issue of People magazine -- not to mention participate with the likes of Susan Sarandon, Samuel L. Jackson, and Jack Nicholson -- Peet worked as a waitress during the first few years of her acting career.
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Amanda Peet has signed on to star opposite John Cusack in New Line Cinema's The Martian Child. Joan Cusack ... is joining the cast. Menno Meyjes is directing Martian, which is based on a short story by openly gay sci-fi author David Gerrold, perhaps best known for writing the classic "Trouble With Tribbles" episode for the original Star Trek series. The script by Jonathan Tolins and Seth Bass is described as the story of an unusual father-son relationship, a cross between Parenthood and E.T.
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Amanda Peet is just like one of the guys. She'd much rather sit on the couch and suck down Cheetos and beer while watching the game as the other women hit the gym and the mall. Apart from her freakishly similar attributes to every male in the world, there's one, little exception: she's outrageously hot. While at Columbia University studying history, Amanda's professor convinced her to study acting under the famous theater professor Uta Hagen for four years. After finishing her professional training, Amanda supported herself with the trivial cash she made off of a Skittles commercial while auditioning for roles in New York.
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Amanda Peet was born January 11, 1972, in New York City, NY. The younger of two daughters, Amanda was raised by her father Charles, a lawyer, and mother Penny, a social worker, before their subsequent divorce in 1990.
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Despite a Quaker upbringing, actress Amanda Peet has depicted some wildly offbeat—and often risqué—characters throughout her career. Born in New York, NY on January 11, 1972, Peet attended the Friends Seminary until she was 7-years-old, when her family moved to London. Four years later, the family returned to New York where Peet continued her Quaker education before attending Columbia University where she earned a degree in American History. During her college years... Peet developed an interest in acting, taking theater coach Uta Hagen’s class junior year. Her four year stay with Hagen prepared the actress for small parts on television and in commercials, as well as an off-Broadway production of Clifford Odets’ “Awake and Sing." A short stint on "One Life to Live†(ABC, 1967-) soon followed, launching her career in earnest.
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