Biography
Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American actress, writer and producer. She began her career with small parts on television, and made her feature film debut in Animal Room (1995). Her portrayal of Jill St. Claire in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) brought her wider recognition, and she has since appeared in a variety of films, such as Saving Silverman (2001), High Crimes; Changing Lanes; Igby Goes Down (all 2002), Something's Gotta Give (2003), Identity (2003), Melinda and Melinda (2004), A...
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Fantasy Life
2025
After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters. The...
Fantasy Life
2025
Producer
After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters. The...

The Atheist Delusion
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Having to prove the existence of God to an atheist is like having to prove the existence of the sun, at noon on a clear day. Yet millions are embracin...

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016
as Self
Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insigh...

Sleeping with Other People
2015
as Paula
Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later...

The Way Way Back
2013
as Joan
Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting i...

Trust Me
2013
as Marcy
In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a sche...

Identity Thief
2013
as Trish Patterson
When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the ...

Gulliver's Travels
2010
as Darcy Silverman
Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
2010
as Ranger (voice)
Dave, a young photon, who is forced out of the Sun on a journey of discovery. He must get to the Cassini Space Craft and save it from the forces of th...

Please Give
2010
as Mary
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
as Self
This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the famed Disaster movie director (i.e. Roland Emmeric...

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
as Self
A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.

2012
2009
as Kate Curtis
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns t...

What Doesn't Kill You
2008
as Stacy Reilly
Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.

$5 a Day
2008
as Maggie
After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road.

The X Files: I Want to Believe
2008
as ASAC Dakota Whitney
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

Martian Child
2007
as Harlee
A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's ...

Battle for Terra
2007
as Maria Montez (voice)
A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, w...

The Ex
2006
as Sofia Kowalski
When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to ad...

Griffin & Phoenix
2006
as Sarah Phoenix
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.

Syriana
2005
as Julie Woodman
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer...

A Lot Like Love
2005
as Emily Friehl
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next...

Melinda and Melinda
2004
as Susan
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel...

The Whole Ten Yards
2004
as Jill St. Claire
Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assa...

Uta Hagen's Acting Class
2004
as Self
Uta Hagen comments on acting

Something's Gotta Give
2003
as Marin
When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the H...

Identity
2003
as Paris
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers th...

Whatever We Do
2003
as Patty
Twenty margaritas and 10 shots of tequila, with a few ounces of debauchery, bring four friends closer to the truth than they have been for years.

Igby Goes Down
2002
as Rachel
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophre...

Changing Lanes
2002
as Cynthia Delano Banek
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two pe...

High Crimes
2002
as Jackie
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador....

Saving Silverman
2001
as Judith Fessbeggler
A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up the...

Two Ninas
2000
as Nina Harris
After a long lonely period of involuntary celibacy, Marty Sachs decides that he has had enough of New York and wants to pack up and run the family bus...

Whipped
2000
as Mia
Three to one may sound like fairly good odds, but it depends on the game. When the "one" is one very irresistible woman and the "three" are three hope...

Takedown
2000
as Karen
Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information, seeking more and more cyber-trophies every day, h...

The Whole Nine Yards
2000
as Jill St. Claire
After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban ...

Isn't She Great
2000
as Debbie
An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann.
Zoe Loses It
2000
as Zoe
A woman has a phone conversation with her friend recounting her nighttime adventure to discover why a man has not called after their first date.

Body Shots
1999
as Jane Bannister
The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the club...

Jump
1999
as Lisa
Friends try to dissuade a suicidal man from jumping off a ledge, but they are not much better off than he is.

Simply Irresistible
1999
as Chris
After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredien...

Playing by Heart
1998
as Amber
In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths unfold...

Ellen Foster
1998
as Julia Hobbs
After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to f...

Southie
1998
as Marianne Silva
South Boston Irish bad boy Danny Quinn returns back home from New York and gets stuck between his pals, who are supported by one Irish mafia clan, and...

Origin of the Species
1998
as Julia
A weekend in a summer house, where six late twenties friends have reunited. A series of life crises force them to confront their relationships and liv...

Touch Me
1997
as Bridgette
Bridgette is an aspiring actress who teaches aerobics at a local gym that's run by the womanizing Adam. After a tryst with Adam, Bridgette scores a ro...

1999
1997
as Nicole
On New Year's Eve 1999, as a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, everyone struggles to come to terms with their iden...

Grind
1997
as Patty
When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form o...

Finishing The Novel
1997
as Wife
Short film by David Wain, with Amanda Peet

One Fine Day
1996
as Celia
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one mornin...

She's the One
1996
as Molly
Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a...

Animal Room
1995
as Debbie
Cynical and intelligent Arnold Mosk, a known drug user, is put into a disciplinary program at his high school meant for the seriously disturbed where ...