Amanda Bynes

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Amanda Laura Bynes was born on April 3rd, 1986 in Thousand Oaks, California.

Engaging and funny from the get go, Bynes was discovered by Nickelodeon when she performed a comedy routine at The Laugh Factory when she was only ten years old. The network scouts asked her to audition and she landed a role on their tween sketch comedy show, All That. She performed on the show from 1996 to 2000. Soon after, Bynes was offered her own show on Nickelodeon, The Amanda Show, which ran from 1999 to 2001.

She made her big screen debut in 2002, when she played opposite Frankie Muniz in Big Fat Liar. She also began to get attention from mainstream, non-tween, audiences when she was cast as Jennie Garth’s sister on the sitcom What I Like About You, which ran from 2002 to 2006.

In 2003, she was in What a Girl Wants with Colin Firth playing her father. In 2005, she was in Love Wrecked with Chris Carmack and also voiced Piper in the computer-animated Robots. She then did the Shakespeare play reworked as a teen movie shtick with 2006’s She’s the Man.

After the end of her series, Bynes she was seen in 2007’s Hairspray with Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta and Zac Efron and then retold the Snow White tale in a college setting in Sydney White. She then worked with Angie Harmon and Harry Connick Jr. on the TV movie Living Proof.

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