Amanda Bynes Biography

Birth Name: Amanda Laura Bynes

Birth Place: Thousand Oaks, CA

Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 04/03/1986, Aries

Profession: Actress

Amanda Bynes Relationships:

Jillian Bynes - Sister

Lynn Bynes - Mother

Rick Bynes - Father

Thomas Bynes - Brother

Amanda Bynes Awards:

2007 Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture - Nominee.

Amanda Laura Bynes was born on April 3, 1986, in Thousand Oaks, California. The youngest of three children, she became interested in acting and performing from the age of three, when she would say her older sister Jillian's lines with her while she performed in plays. It was from then on that her family and friends knew that she would be a star someday.

In 1999, 13-year-old Amanda was given her own variety show, "The Amanda Show" (1999), in which she starred in all of the skits except Totally Kyle. In 2001, she co-starred with Frankie Muniz in Big Fat Liar (2002) as Kaylee, Jason's friend who helps him prove that he really did write the essay "Big Fat Liar" and regain his father's trust. It was also in 2001 that she began dating Taran Killam from "The Amanda Show" (1999) and Big Fat Liar (2002), who is four years and two days older than she is. She also won a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award and, at age 15, "The Amanda Show" (1999) ended its run.

In 2002, she began co-starring with Jennie Garth in "What I Like About You" (2002) as Holly, a 16-year-old girl who moves in with her sister after their father decides to move to Japan. She also celebrated her Sweet 16th birthday and got her driver's license on April 3, 2002.

In 2003, Amanda won two KCA Awards and starred as Daphne, a girl searching for her father, in What a Girl Wants (2003) with Colin Firth and Kelly Preston as her parents. She continued acting in "What I Like About You" (2002) and broke up with Taran.

She got another starring role in the film "What A Girl Wants" (2003), pushing the actress way ahead of the young Hollywood pack. It was a coming-of-age movie with romantic comedy elements, so Bynes was able to showcase both her versatile acting range, but also the fact that she was growing into a lovely young lady. With mature forethought, she planned to affect a Sandra Bullock and Meg Ryan film route - actresses who could not only act but were not afraid to do physical comedy either. At a time when animated movies were also box-office dynamite, Bynes voiced for Piper in 2005's "Robots

Never much of an athlete as a kid, Bynes had always preferred musical theater and acting over sports. When her next movie "She's The Man" (2006), called for the actress to learn how to play soccer - as a man - she did so with flying colors.

Talented and mature well beyond her years, Bynes set out for an entirely new and different direction with her career. She launched a fashion line called "Dear By Amanda Bynes" in August 2007, with fun and trendy pieces her teen fans loved to wear. The line was sold exclusively at department store Steve and Barry's nationwide.