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Joey Lauren Adams

Born 1968-01-09 in North Little Rock, AK
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In Brief:

Joey Lauren Adams (born January 9, 1968 in North Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American actress with appearances in over 30 films. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films of Kevin Smith, particularly Chasing Amy.

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Bio:

Adams' breakthrough role came in 1993 in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, a film which also starred Ben Affleck.

Playing Alyssa Jones in the 1997 film Chasing Amy, opposite Ben Affleck, brought her a lot of attention for her portrayal of a lesbian who falls for a man. Director Kevin Smith wrote and directed the film, which was largely inspired by his friendship with lesbian actress/writer/director Guinevere Turner. Adams also has stated publicly that she is bisexual in her personal life.

Her performance earned her both the 1997 Chicago Film Critics Award and Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for "Most Promising Actress" and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture—Comedy/Musical. Adams also contributed the song "Alive" to the soundtrack of Chasing Amy, performing it in one of the scenes of the film. She also has appeared in two other View Askew productions, Mallrats (1995) and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) briefly reprising the role of Chasing Amy's Alyssa in the latter. She reprised the role again, in voice form only, for Clerks: The Lost Scene, featured on the Clerks X DVD.

After having the female lead in the Adam Sandler box office smash Big Daddy she would go on to appear in smaller films that met with less success (Beautiful, In the Shadows) and many lesser-seen small films.

Some speculation has been made that her unusual speaking voice hampered her chances of Hollywood stardom, to which she has commented: "It's not a normal voice. It doesn't fit into people's preconceptions about what a woman's voice should sound like. My mom doesn't think I have an unusual voice, though. I'm sure it's helped me get some roles. But Chasing Amy I almost didn't get. There was concern the voice would grate on some people, which some critics said it did."

In 2005, she had a guest role in an episode of TV show Veronica Mars. In 2006 she will release her directorial debut, Come Early Morning, starring Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Diane Ladd, Tim Blake Nelson and Laura Prepon. The film has been selected for the Sundance Film Festival.

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Filmography:

• Come Early Morning (2006) (Writer, Director only)
• The Break-UP (2006)
• Love, Fear and Rabbits (2006)
• Clerks: The Lost Scene (2004) (Voice Only)
• The Gunman (2004)
• The Big Empty (2003)
• Beeper (2002)
• Grand Champion (2002)
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) (Cameo)
• In The Shadows (2001)
• Reaching Normal (2001)
• Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) (Voice)
• Harvard Man (2001)
• Beautiful (2000)
• Bruno (2000)
• Big Daddy (1999)
• Emergency Room 2 (1999)
• A Cool Dry Place (1998)
• Chasing Amy (1997)
• Michael (1996)
• Bio-Dome (1996)
• Drawing Flies (1996)
• Mallrats (1995)
• S.F.W. (1994)
• Sleep with Me (1994)
• The Pros & Cons of Breathing (1994)
• The Program (1993)
• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• Coneheads (1993)
• Exorcist II - The Heretic (1977)

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