Amanda Bynes Biography
Born: April 03, 1986
The squirrel-cheeked young actress Amanda Bynes rose to fame on Nickelodeon and moved on to the WB network for her teenage years. In 1996, she became a regular cast member on the kid's sketch comedy show All That, which first earned her a growing fan base of adoring admirers. Sticking with Nickelodeon-style broad comedy, she was a panelist on the game show Figure It Out as well as host for the popular variety show The Amanda Show, which won several Kid's Choice awards. After lending her voice to the long-running cartoon Rugrats, Bynes made the big switch from the PG world of Nickelodeon to the PG-13 world of the WB with a part on the short-lived series The_Nightmare_Room, narrated by author R.L. Stine. The next year she made her feature film debut in the comedy Big_Fat_Liar as the best friend of fellow young superstar Frankie_Muniz. In 2002, she launched the WB sitcom What_I_Like_About_You, playing a comedic younger sister who moves into the trendy Upper West Side apartment of her straight-laced older sister (Jennie_Garth from Beverly_Hills_90210). Widely released one day after her 17th birthday, the romantic comedy What a Girl Wants marked her first major starring role and showcased her Sandra_Bullock-style pratfalls as lead Daphne, a girl who goes to England in search of her father (Colin_Firth) and finds romance. The undistinguished Just One of the Guys retread She's the Man followed in 2006, a year before she landed a plum supporting role in the big-budget musical remake of Hairspray. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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