50 facts about actress Anna Faris

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1. Anna Kay Faris is an American actress and producer.

2. Anna Faris has been mainly recognized as a comedic performer for her appearances in numerous comedy films throughout her career.

3. Anna Faris has been called by the media one of the "most talented comic actresses" of her generation and New Yorker writer Tad Friend once described her as "Hollywood's most original comic actress".

4. Her breakthrough came with the role of Cindy Campbell in Scary Movie (2000). She appeared in the subsequent three sequels of the movie, with her last appearance being in the fourth installment, released in 2006.

5. During the early-mid 2000s, she played supporting roles in dramatic pictures such as Lost in Translation (2003) and Brokeback Mountain (2005), and appeared in various comedies, including The Hot Chick (2002), Waiting... (2005), Just Friends (2005), and My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006).

6. Anna Faris received critical praise for her role in the indie black comedy Smiley Face.

7. In 2009, she co-appeared in Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel and Observe and Report, and also had voice-over roles in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (she has continued to lend her voice for both films' sequels).

8. Anna Faris starred and co-produced the feature What's Your Number? (2011), which was followed by comedic roles in the political satire The Dictator (2012), and the anthology film Movie 43 (2013).

9. Anna Faris has played Christy Plunkett on the CBS sitcom Mom since 2013. The show has earned the actress further critical and popular acclaim and a People's Choice Award nomination.

10. Anna Faris was born in Baltimore, Maryland.

11. Her family moved to Edmonds, Washington, when she was six years old.

12. Her father, Jack, was a sociologist who worked at the University of Washington as a vice president of internal communications, and later headed the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association.

13. Her mother, Karen, was a special education teacher at Seaview Elementary School in Edmonds.

14. Anna Faris has an older brother, Robert, who is also a sociologist and professor at the University of California, Davis.

15. Anna Faris was raised with her brother in a "very conservative atmosphere", and by the age of 6, her parents enrolled her in a community drama class for kids as they usually encouraged her to act, although it was not professionally at the beginning.

16. Anna Faris enjoyed watching plays and eventually produced her own material in her bedroom with friends who lived in her neighborhood.

17. Anna Faris has said in interviews she often imagined her retainer talking to her, remarking that she would picture herself "on talk shows to talk about [her] talking retainer".

18. Anna Faris attended Edmonds-Woodway High School (where she graduated from in 1994), and while studying, she performed onstage with a Seattle repertory company and in nationally broadcast radio plays.

19. She once self-described herself as a drama club "dork", stating that she used to wear a Christmas-tree skirt in school and didn't date until senior year. "I liked guys, but no one really liked me", she recalled.

20. Anna Faris then attended the University of Washington and earned a degree in English literature in 1999.

21. Despite her love for acting, Faris admitted she "never really thought [she] wanted to become a movie star" and continued to act "just to make some extra money", hoping one day to publish a novel.

22. Anna Faris acknowledged she had performed since she was a kid, though she felt acting was "the least practical thing" she "could do" for a living.

23. After graduating college, Faris was going to travel to London, where she had a receptionist job lined up at an ad agency, however, she ended living in Los Angeles "at the last minute", once she committed to the idea of persuing mainstream acting, eventually scoring the starring part in Scary Movie.

24. At the age of 22, she lived by her own in a studio located at the Ravens-wood in Hancock Park.

25. Her parents encouraged her to pursue acting when she was young, and she gave her first professional acting performance when she was 9 years old in a three-month run of Arthur Miller's one-act play Danger: Memory! at the Seattle Repertory Theater.

26. Due to her work, Faris was paid US$250, which was "huge" for her at the time. "I felt like I was rolling in the dough", she recalled.

27. Anna Faris went on to play Scout in a production of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Issaquah, Washington, Village Theatre, and played the title character in Heidi and Rebecca in Our Town.

28. While attending High School, Faris appeared in a frozen-yogurt TV commercial.

29. Anna Faris had a small role in the made-for-TV movie Deception: A Mother's Secret, where she played a character named Liz, and later was cast in a supporting part in the indie drama Eden, which was screened at 1996 Sundance Film Festival.

30. Faris' first major film role came shortly after college with her independent film, Lovers Lane in 1999, in which she played an ill-fated cheerleader.

31. Her breakout role came with the horror parody film Scary Movie (2000) where she played Cindy Campbell. It marked her first starring credit, as she had only appeared in small and supporting parts in theater plays and low-budgeted features until then.

32. In 2003, she was "cast last-minute" in Sofia Coppola's dramedy Lost in Translation, where she played an actress promoting an action movie.

33. She filmed a small part for Ang Lee's drama Brokeback Mountain in the summer 2004. As her character had just "one scene in the movie", she only spent two days on set in Calgary.

34. She was cast opposite Diane Keaton and Jon Heder in the indie comedy Mama's Boy, which came out theatrically on November 30, 2007.

35. She then appeared in the 2009 British-American comedy Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel, which follows two social outcasts and their cynical friend as they attempt to navigate a time travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Faris played Cassie, a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion.

36. Observe and Report, another project featuring Faris, was released on April 10, 2009. It was a black comedy in which she starred opposite Seth Rogen, portraying a bitchy cosmetic counter employee on whom Rogen has a crush.

37. She was drawn to appear in the movie, as it gave Faris the opportunity to play an "awful character", rather than the usual "roles where you have to win the audience over or win the guy over, and be charming".

38. She appeared in the computer-animated live action film Yogi Bear, that was released by Warner Bros. on December 17, 2010.

39. Her next on-screen appearance was the following year, playing Zoey in the political satire The Dictator, co-starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Faris was eager to work with Baron Cohen as she had been a fan of his "for years". She found the experience of acting with him "really hard, but also really exciting" as it was "90 percent" improvised. The picture was a box office success, grossing US$179 million globally, and earned Faris the Star of the Year Award at the National Association of Theatre Owners.

40. Her first 2013 release was Movie 43, an independent anthology black comedy that featured 14 different storylines, with each segment having a different director.

41. Her next movie appearance was an uncredited cameo in the 2014 action comedy 22 Jump Street.

42. During her career, Faris has become notable for her comedic performances, and has been called one of the "most talented comic actresses" of her generation by several publications. Cosmopolitan magazine named her "the Cosmo's Fun Fearless Female of the Year" in 2010, and Tad Friend described her in The New Yorker as "Hollywood's most original comic actress".

43. Anna Faris has appeared on the covers and photo sessions of several magazines throughout her career; she graced the September 2000 cover of Raygun, and in subsequent years the list has grown to include Self, Cosmopolitan, among others.

44. Anna Faris was featured in GQ UK's June 2001 pictorial of "Young Hollywood".

45. Anna Faris started dating actor Ben Indra shortly after they met on the set of the 1999 indie slasher Lovers Lane.

46. They eventually married in June 2004, but Faris filed for divorce from him in April 2007 citing irreconcilable differences.

47. Anna Faris met actor Chris Pratt in early 2007 at the table read in Los Angeles for the film Take Me Home Tonight.

48. They started dating shortly after, became engaged in late 2008 and married on July 9, 2009 in a small ceremony in Bali, Indonesia.

49. They have a son, Jack, who was born in August 2012.

50. The family lives in a 4,710 square feet home, in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.

Source: Wikipedia.org