Amanda Bynes
Occupation : Actress
Birth Date : April 3, 1986
Birth Place : Thousand Oaks, California, USA
Birth Name : Amanda Laura Bynes
Nationality : American
Height : 5' 8''
Sex : F
Education : Thousand Oaks High (Class of 2004)
Relationship : Channing Tatum (actor; b. on April 26, 1980; reportedly dated in 2006 after filming She's The Man), Nick Zano (MTV VJ; reportedly dated 2003), Taran Killam (actor; b. on April 1, 1982; met on The Amanda Show; dated 2001; broke in 2003)
Father : Dr. Rick Bynes (dentist)
Mother : Lynn Bynes (work in her husband dental office)
Sister : Jillian Bynes (born in 1983)
Brother : Tommy Bynes (chiropractor; b. in 1974)
Niece : Jaylyn (b. on March 4, 2004)
Claim to fame : As Daphne in What a Girl Wants (2003; won two KCA Awards, an award for best actress)
Popular, conventionally attractive young actress Amanda Bynes rose to fame on Nickelodeon as a preteen starlet and moved on to the WB network for her teenage years. In 1996, she became a regular cast member on the kid's sketch comedy show All That, which first earned her a growing fan base of adoring admirers. Sticking with Nickelodeon-style broad comedy, she was a panelist on the game show Figure It Out as well as host for the popular variety show The Amanda Show, which won several Kid's Choice awards. After lending her voice to the long-running cartoon Rugrats, Bynes made the big switch from the PG world of Nickelodeon to the PG-13 world of the WB with a part on the short-lived series The Nightmare Room, narrated by author R.L. Stine.
The next year she made her feature film debut in the comedy Big Fat Liar as the best friend of fellow young superstar Frankie Muniz. In 2002, she launched the WB sitcom What I Like About You, playing a comedic younger sister who moves into the trendy Upper West Side apartment of her straight-laced older sister (Jennie Garth from Beverly Hills 90210). Widely released one day after her 17th birthday, the romantic comedy What a Girl Wants marked her first major starring role and showcased her Sandra Bullock-style pratfalls as lead Daphne, a girl who goes to England in search of her father (Colin Firth) and finds romance.
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