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Amy Smart
Amy Smart during "LA Fashion Week" in 2008
Born	Amy Lysle Smart March 26, 1976 (1976-03-26) (age 33) Topanga, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present

Amy Lysle Smart (born March 26, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Smart was born in Topanga, California, the daughter of Judy, a museum worker, and John Smart, a salesman.¹ Inspired by her friend Vinessa Shaw, Smart studied ballet for ten years and enrolled in acting classes when she was sixteen, but began her career as a fashion model, working in Italy, France, Mexico, and Tahiti (Awards-winning spots for Club Med directed by Bruno Aveillan). She is left handed.

Career

Smart's first film role was in director Martin Kunert's film Campfire Tales, followed by a small role as Queenie in the 1996 rendition of John Updike's short story, "A&P". She had a minor role in the 1997 film Starship Troopers as the co-pilot for (and friend of) Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards). She had a starring role in the mini-series titled The 70s, playing a young woman from Ohio. In 1999, Smart played the girlfriend of a popular football player (played by James Van Der Beek) in the film Varsity Blues. Also, Smart appeared in the series Felicity, as a girlfriend of Scott Foley's character. She subsequently appeared in a number of films catering to a teenage audience, many of which were successful, including Road Trip (2000) and The Butterfly Effect (2004). In 2002, she was ranked #27 in Stuff magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" and in 2004, she was nominated for "Best Kiss" at the MTV Movie Awards for her role in Starsky & Hutch. She's been paired twice as a couple with Breckin Meyer in films Road Trip and Rat Race.

In 2005, Smart co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in the romantic comedy film Just Friends, which had a total domestic box office gross of $32,619,761² and a total worldwide box office of $50,817,598. Smart also had a small role in the American sitcom Scrubs, playing Jamie Moyer (aka Tasty Coma Wife), one of main character J.D.'s love interests. On September 1, 2006, Crank was released, in which she played the girlfriend of the lead character, Chev (played by Jason Statham). The sequel, Crank: High Voltage, was released in 2009, and Smart reprised the role, with the character now a pole dancer.

Smart was a regular cast member in the short-lived 2006 CBS television series Smith. She also has voiced some of the characters in the animated series Robot Chicken, created by Seth Green. Smart appeared as Joy in the 2006 movie Peaceful Warrior, starring Scott Mechlowicz and Nick Nolte. She is currently filming a pilot for a TV show tentatively titled See Cate Run in which she plays a young prosecutor destined to become the nations first female president.

Personal life

Smart was a speaker for the Heal the Bay organization; she has also worked with the Humane Society and the "Environmental Media Association", and was named one of Organic Style magazine's "Women with Organic Style" of 2004.

Smart is dating actor Branden Williams, with whom she has been involved for more than 13 years.^{citation needed} Her former roommate and best friend^{citation needed} Ali Larter appeared alongside Smart in the film Varsity Blues and modeled with her in Milan. Smart is also friends with author and animal communicator Amelia Kinkade, and was acknowledged in Kinkade's second book, The Language of Miracles. She is a former vegetarian.³

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	A&P	Queenie
1997	Campfire Tales	Jenny
	High Voltage	Molly
	Starship Troopers	Cadet (Later Lt.) Lumbreiser
1998	How to Make the Cruelest Month	Dot Bryant
	Strangeland	Angela Stravelli
	Circles	Allison
1999	Outside Providence	Jane Weston
	Varsity Blues	Jules Harbor
2000	Road Trip	Beth Wagner
2001	Rat Race	Tracy Faucet
2002	Interstate 60	Lynn Linden
	Scotland, PA	Stacy (Hippie #1)
2003	National Lampoon's Barely Legal	Naomi Feldman
	The Battle of Shaker Heights	Tabby Bowland
	Scrubs	Jamie Moyer a.k.a. "T.C.W." (Tasty Coma Wife)	three episodes
	Blind Horizon	Liz Culpepper
2004	Starsky & Hutch	Holly
	The Butterfly Effect	Kayleigh Miller
	Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!	Nurse Betty
	Willowbee	Burglar
2005	Just Friends	Jamie Palamino
	Bigger Than the Sky	Grace Hargrove
	Unhitched	Sarah Marie Barker
2006	Crank	Eve
	Peaceful Warrior	Joy
2008	Life in Flight	Catherine
	Mirrors	Angela Carson
	Seventh Moon	Melissa
2009	Crank: High Voltage	Eve
	Love N' Dancing	Jessica Donovan

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Amy Smart

• Amy Smart Network
• Amy Smart at the Internet Movie Database
• Amy Smart at TV.com
• Interview, 2/24/04, Dark Horizons
• Interview, 8/01, Hollywood.com

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NAME	Smart, Amy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American actress, model
DATE OF BIRTH	March 26, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	Topanga, California, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH