Amanda Seyfried

Amanda Seyfried (born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1985) acted in movies like Mamma Mia! (2008) by Phillida Lloyd with Meryl Streep, Letters to Juliet (2010) with Vanessa Redgrave, Red Riding Hood (2011) by Catherine Hardwicke, In Time (2011) with Justin Timberlake, Les Misérables (2012) directed by Tom Hooper, Lovelace (2013), Fathers and Daughters (2015) by Gabriele Muccino, The Last Word (2017) with Shirley MacLaine, Gringo (2018), and The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019) with Milo Venitmiglia. She played Marion Davis in Mank (2020) by David Fincher.  On television she acted in the series Big Love (2006-2011). She also played Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout (2022).

Currently, Seyfried stars with Sydney Sweeney in The Housemaid, a psychological thriller based on Freida McFadden’s novel.

Other credits include Seven Veils frim filmmaker Atom Egoyan. In 2023, Seyfried co-starred in “The Crowded Room”, alongside Tom Holland. Created by Akiva Goldsman, the 10-episode series premiered on June 9, 2023.

Seyfried’s breakthrough performance was in Mamma Mia! (2008). In 2018, she starred opposite Ethan Hawke in Paul Schrader’s film, First Reformed.

She played Linda Lovelace in Millennium/Radius Films’ Lovelace, a drama directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and Seyfried once again displayed her vocal talents in Universal’s musical film adaptation of Les Miserables in 2012. Other screen credits include her Noah Baumbach’s film, While We’re Young and she worked with Seth MacFarlane on two films, Ted 2 and A Million Ways to Die in the West.

A Pennsylvania native, Seyfried started her career by modeling at the age of 11. She soon turned to acting and landed her first contract role in 2000 as Lucy Montgomery on At the World Turns. In 2002, All My Children signed her to a contract; her big break, though, was in 2004’s Mean Girls where she co-starred with Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams.