Amanda Peet Biography

Amanda Peet (born January 11 January, 1972) is an American actress. Her career began with small parts on television, and made her feature film debut with Animal Room (1995). Her first recognition came from her performance in the role of Jill St. Claire on The Whole Nine Yards (2000). Since then, she has appeared in several films which include Identity (2003), Identity (2003), Melinda and Melinda (2004), A Lot Like Love (2005), Syriana (2005), The X-Files (2009), Please Give (2010) Gulliver's Journeys (2010), The Way, Way Back (2013), and Identity Thief (2013). In television, Peet starred as Jacqueline Barrett on the WB's Jack & Jill (1999-2001) and as Tina Morris on HBO's Togetherness (2015-2016) and as Jules on IFC's Brockmire (2016-2020), and as Betty Broderick on the second season of Dirty John in 2020. Peet was the daughter of Penny (nee Levy), who was a social worker, as well as Charles Peet Jr. a corporate lawyer. She later divorced. Her father is Quaker as is her mother, who is Jewish. Both are atheists. Her maternal great-grandparents were Samuel Levy, a lawyer as well as a businessman and public official who was Manhattan Borough President, and Samuel Roxy Rothafel, a theatre impresario and entrepreneur.At age seven, Peet relocated with her family to London, returning to New York four years later.Peet went to Friends Seminary and completed her studies at Columbia University with a degree in American history. After taking Hagen's course, Peet was a candidate for acting classes. During her four-year period of studying with Hagen, Peet appeared in the off-Broadway revival of Clifford Odets's The Awakening and Sing! together with Stephen Lang.