Amanda Peet

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Full Name: Amanda Peet
Date of birth: January 11, 1972 (54 years old)
Location: New York, New York
Country: USA

Amanda Peet has been active for 30 years, participating in 20 movies that average a 6.1/10 score.

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Tráiler oficial de 'Masters del Universo', con Nicholas Galitzine como He-Man

Biography

Amanda Peet was studying American history at Columbia University when she auditioned for a class taught by Uta Hagen, one of the great acting teachers of the twentieth century. She got in, stayed four years and came out an actress. Born in New York on 11 January 1972 to a lawyer father and a social worker mother, she'd grown up at Friends Seminary, a Quaker school in Manhattan, with no particular plans for a life on screen.

The early years were the usual grind: commercials, an off Broadway revival of 'Awake and Sing!', small parts in films like 'One Fine Day' and 'She's the One', and a first television lead in The WB's 'Jack & Jill' (1999 to 2001).

Stealing scenes from Bruce Willis

Her break was 'The Whole Nine Yards' (2000). As Jill, the sweet dental assistant who dreams of becoming a contract killer, she walked away with a film fronted by Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry that took over a hundred million dollars worldwide. She stayed in silly mode for 'Saving Silverman' (2001) and the sequel 'The Whole Ten Yards'.

The 2000s kept her moving between registers: one of the stranded suspects of the motel thriller 'Identity' (2003) with John Cusack, Diane Keaton's daughter dating Jack Nicholson in 'Something's Gotta Give' (2003), a lead for Woody Allen in 'Melinda and Melinda', Ashton Kutcher's sparring partner in 'A Lot Like Love' and part of the ensemble of 'Syriana' with George Clooney.

Blockbusters came calling too. She joined the FBI for 'The X Files: I Want to Believe' (2008), outran the apocalypse alongside Cusack in Roland Emmerich's '2012' and turned up in 'Gulliver's Travels' and 'Identity Thief' with Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. Independent film treated her better: Nicole Holofcener's 'Please Give', 'The Way, Way Back' with Steve Carell and Toni Collette, and the sharp tongued 'Sleeping With Other People'.

Betty Broderick and a career best

Television is where she's done the work she's proudest of. She ran a network as Jordan McDeere in Aaron Sorkin's 'Studio 60', owned a struggling baseball team in 'Brockmire' opposite Hank Azaria and played the messy, endearing Tina in HBO's 'Togetherness', from the Duplass brothers, alongside Mark Duplass.

Her most praised performance arrived in 2020, in season two of 'Dirty John', as Betty Broderick, the California housewife who ended up murdering her former husband and his new wife. She then fronted the series remake of 'Fatal Attraction' (2023) with Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan, and since 2025 she's starred opposite Jon Hamm in Apple TV+'s 'Your Friends & Neighbors', playing the former wife of a sacked fund manager who burgles his neighbours' mansions. A second season landed in 2026.

Playwright, showrunner and a Game of Thrones household

Her second act has happened mostly on the page. After a Broadway debut in the 2006 revival of 'Barefoot in the Park' with Patrick Wilson, she wrote the plays 'The Commons of Pensacola' (2013), about the family of a disgraced Madoff style financier, staged with Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker, and 'Our Very Own Carlin McCullough' (2018), plus a children's book. In 2021 she co created 'The Chair' with writer Annie Julia Wyman, the Netflix comedy drama starring Sandra Oh.

She's been married since 2006 to David Benioff, co creator of 'Game of Thrones', who executive produced The Chair, and they have three children. Peet has also spent years as a public advocate for childhood vaccination, serving as spokesperson for Every Child by Two.

At 54 she's working as much as ever, and increasingly on her own terms: her performance in the indie romantic comedy 'Fantasy Life' won a Special Jury Award at SXSW in 2025, and the film reached cinemas in March 2026. Not bad for a history graduate who wandered into an acting class.