Amy Smart: biography, filmography and the personal life of the actress (photo)

The heroine of our today's story will be a charming American model and actress - Amy Smart. For most of the audience, she is known for her roles in such films as "Butterfly Effect", "Adrenaline", "Rat Race" and "Road Adventure". We offer a closer look to the actress, plunging into the details of her career and personal life.

Biography Amy Smart

The future world-famous actress was born in 1976, March 26, in the city of Topanga, California. The full name of the actress sounds like Amy Lyle Smart. Her father - John - was engaged in sales, and his mother - Judy - worked in the museum. As a child, Amy, along with her girlfriend Vinessa Shaw, was actively engaged in ballet for 10 years. From the age of 13 she began her modeling career. In this capacity, Amy was shot in advertising and traveled a lot to France, Italy, Tahiti, Mexico and other countries. At the age of 16, young Smart began attending a school of acting.

Amy Smart: filmography, debut on the big screen

Thanks to the modeling business, the girl also opened the road to the cinema. In 1996, she performed episodic roles in television films "Her chic novel" and "Closed Circle". Thanks to the talented game, the young actress won both spectators and critics. In 1997, Amy also offered the first major role. It was a film by Stephen T. Kay called "Suicide". Smart partners on the set were such Hollywood stars of the first magnitude, like Keanu Reeves and Thomas Jane. In the same year, she took part in the work and several more projects: a fantastic ribbon "Star Troopers" directed by Paul Verhoeven, as well as paintings "Tales by the fire" and "High tension".

Continuation of career

Attractive appearance and great talent of Amy Smart did not go unnoticed, and the young actress began to receive a lot of proposals for filming in a variety of projects. The years 1998 and 1999 were very fruitful. During this period, Amy managed to star in the series "Happiness", the paintings "Screech. Well, a very scary movie "and" Gold Rush ", the thriller" Strangeland ", as well as the films" Student Team "," First Love "and several others.

2000s

Amy Smart, films with which participation invariably enjoyed success with the audience, continued to work actively in the cinema and with the beginning of the new millennium. So, in 2000 she took part in work on several projects - the short series "The Seventies" and the youth adventure comedy "Road Adventures".

Very successful for Smart was in 2001, when the screen came at once three tapes with her participation: "Medical Academy", "Scotland. Pennsylvania "and" Rat Racing ". 2002 was marked by the release of the tape "Track 60", in which Amy got a mischievous character of the performer of desires. Smart partners on the set in this project were such celebrities as Kurt Russell, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, James Marsden and Michael J. Fox.

The following year, the actress pleased the viewers, appearing in several episodes of the popular TV series "Clinic". At the same time, she performed several secondary roles in films such as "The Battles of Soldier Kelly" by Kyle Rankin and Efram Potela, "The Blind Horizon" and "Almost in the Law" by David M. Evans.

On top of success

In 2004, the movie "The Butterfly Effect" was released on the screens. This tape was very successful at the box office and became practically cult for many spectators. Accordingly, the career of all employees in the project actors quickly went up. By the way, Smart partners on the set were Evan Trabourne and Ashton Kutcher. In the same year, Amy glittered in another project - the comedic thriller Todd Phillips called "The Slaughter couple: Starsky and Hutch." Also, the role of the nurse, perfectly performed by Smart, in the 2004 film "Dates with a Star" did not go unnoticed.

The following year, Amy again appeared on the big screen in the title role. This is a comedy melodrama "Witness at the wedding," directed by Stevan Schwartz. The partners of the actress for the shooting were such stars as Steve John Shepherd and Stuart Townsend. This film career Amy was very successful, and soon Roger Camble offered her a role in her film "Just Friends." In 2005, another tape with the participation of Smart - the melodrama "More than the Sky" was released.

Excellent film work and magnificent actor's reincarnation of Amy became a role in the 2006 movie "Adrenaline". In this project, Smart played the girlfriend of the protagonist in the performance of the irresistible Jason Statham. The film was a huge success at the box office, and three years later its creators decided to shoot the second part. So, in 2009, the screens went "Adrenaline 2: High Voltage", where Amy Smart performed the familiar role of companion to the protagonist.

From the movies of the actress of this period, you can also distinguish the 2006 films "The Peaceful Warrior" and "Extra Class Thieves", as well as the "horror" of 2008 under the title "Mirrors". In addition, from 2005 to 2011, Amy took part in the scoring of the animated series "Robotsyp".

Last works

Very fertile for the role for Smart became 2011, when the rental came just a few paintings: "Shameless", "Brotherhood of Blood" and "House of the Rising Sun." Then in the career of Amy there was a little break. In the current year 2014 is expected the premiere of a new film with the participation of an actress called "Crossfire".

Personal life

Amy Smart has a constant relationship. So, she had more than 15 years met with a colleague in the actor's shop Brandon Williams. At the end of 2010, she met model and presenter on television Carter Osterhaus, with whom she soon began to meet. A few months later, the couple announced their engagement, and in September 2011, the couple married. Today it is known that Amy Smart and her husband live happily, but they do not have any children yet.

Interesting facts about the actress

• It is known that Amy Smart is left-handed. She is also a vegetarian.
• In 2002, 2006 and 2007, various well-known publications included Amy in the TOP-100 of the sexiest women in the world.
• In 2004, Smart became the laureate of the MTV Award in the category "Best Kiss".
• Amy's best friend and former roommate is actress Eli Larter. The girls worked together models in Milan, and also starred in the film "The Student Team."
• For seven years, Smart acted as a representative of the charitable organization "For the health of the bay," whose activities are aimed at preserving the purity of the coastal waters of California.