Joey Lauren Adams Biography
Joey Lauren Adams is an American actress and filmmaker who starred in Chasing Amy, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and appeared in minor roles in additional Kevin Smith View Askewniverse films.
How old is Joey Lauren Adams? – Age
She is 56 years old as of 9 January 2024. She was born in 1968 in North Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.
Joey Lauren Adams Family – Education
Adams was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas, as the youngest of three children. Her father was a lumberyard entrepreneur. Adams grew raised in North Little Rock’s Overbrook neighborhood and graduated from Northeast High School in 1986. She revealed her decision to pursue acting after spending a year as an exchange student in Australia.
Joey Lauren Adams Husband
Adams is married to Brian Vilim. The couple married in 2014.
Joey Lauren Adams Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Joey Lauren Adams Saturday Night Live
In the Saturday Night Live spinoff film Coneheads, she played one of Connie Conehead’s buddies. Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night sketch comedy variety show founded by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol. It airs on NBC and streams on Peacock. Michaels is presently the program’s showrunner. George Carlin presented the show’s premiere on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC’s Saturday Night.
The show’s comic sketches, which frequently mock contemporary American culture and politics, are performed by a huge and diverse ensemble of repertory and newer cast members. A celebrity guest hosts each show, usually delivering the opening monologue and performing in sketches with the cast, with a musical guest providing highlighted performances. An episode typically begins with a cold open skit based on political happenings and concludes with someone breaking character and exclaiming, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” to officially begin the show.
Joey Lauren Adams Chasing Amy
Adams appears in Mallrats, which was written and directed by Kevin Smith. The two began dating during the film’s post-production, and their romance served as inspiration for Smith’s subsequent feature, Chasing Amy. The romance didn’t continue long, but it ended on good terms. Meanwhile, as Smith was working on the script for Chasing Amy, Adams was cast in the slapstick comedy Bio-Dome, directed by Jason Bloom. Adams portrayed Monique, Bud Macintosh’s (Pauly Shore) girlfriend.
Adams starred in the 1997 film Chasing Amy as Alyssa Jones, a lesbian who falls in love with Ben Affleck’s character. Smith later described Chasing Amy as a “sort of penance/valentine” and a “thank-you homage” to Adams. In addition to her acting role in the film, Adams wrote and performed the song “Alive” for the soundtrack.
Adams’ work in Chasing Amy garnered her the 1997 Chicago Film Critics Award and the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Most Promising Actress, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Joey Lauren Adams Career
Adams started her movie profession in 1977 with a little job in Exorcist II: The Blasphemer. From that point she started to track down bigger jobs. In 1991, Adams showed up in “Top of the Store”, the 100th episode of Hitched… with Kids, and hence featured in its brief side project. In 1993, Adams handled her most memorable significant film job as Simone in Richard Linklater’s Stupefied and Befuddled.
Adams was initially scheduled to play the female lead in Smith’s next film, 1999’s Authoritative opinion, however Linda Fiorentino at last won the job. Notwithstanding, she would later show up in two other Smith projects: the 2001 film Jay and Quiet Sway Strike Back, and the 2004 vivified short Agents: The Lost Scene, highlighted on the Assistants X DVD. In both of these appearances, Adams repeats the job of Alyssa Jones.
Her post-Smith projects included playing a fiery veterinarian’s associate who goes gaga for a single parent (Vince Vaughn) in 1998’s A Cool, Dry Spot. The next year, Adams showed up in her most memorable large financial plan Hollywood delivery, playing Adam Sandler’s old flame in the effective satire Enormous Daddy. She then, at that point, proceeded to show up in numerous more modest movies, incorporating Wonderful and In the Shadows. In 2005, she had a visitor job in an episode of the television series Veronica Mars.
Additionally in 2006, Adams delivered her first time at the helm film, Come Early Morning, featuring Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Diane Ladd, Tim Blake Nelson and Laura Prepon. The film, shot on the spot in Little Stone, Arkansas, was chosen for the 2006 Sundance Film Celebration.
In 2006, she, alongside Lian Lunson and Nicole Holofcener, was granted the Ladies in Movie Dorothy Arzner Chiefs Grant. On November 24, 2009, Interscope Records delivered Adams’ first time at the helm for a music video named “Beauty of the Street” by Dashboard Confession booth.
Adams got back to television in Walk 2010, on the Kickoff series The US of Tara. She showed up in six episodes as Pammy, a barmaid who succumbs to Buck, one of the title character’s substitute characters. Adams is likewise known for her unmistakable voice which one film pundit alluded to as that of a “dream girl on-helium”.
Joey Lauren Adams Movies
♦ 2022 – Tankhouse
♦ 2019 – Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
♦ 2014 – Making the Rules
♦ 2014 – Sequoia
♦ 2014 – Valley Inn
♦ 2014 – Animal
♦ 2014 – All the Birds Have Flown South
♦ 2013 – Blue Caprice
♦ 2013 – A Country Christmas
♦ 2013 – She Loves Me Not
♦ 2012 – The Birthday Present
♦ 2012 – Mulberry Stains
♦ 2012 – Art Machine
♦ 2011 – Big Swim
♦ 2011 – Apart
♦ 2010 – Endure
♦ 2009 – ExTerminators
♦ 2008 – Trucker
Joey Lauren Adams TV Shows
♦ 2022 – The L Word: Generation Q
♦ 2016–17 – Still the King
♦ 2015 – Grey’s Anatomy
♦ 2013–14 – Switched at Birth
♦ 2012 – Supermoms
♦ 2010 – Tough Trade
♦ 2010 – United States of Tara
♦ 2010 – Frenemies
♦ 2009–10 – Party Down
♦ 2005 – What’s New, Scooby-Doo?
♦ 2005 – Veronica Mars
♦ 2003 – As Told by Ginger
♦ 2003–04 – Stripperella
♦ 1999 – Hercules
♦ 1996 – Second Noah
♦ 1995 – Love & War
♦ 1995 – Out of Order
♦ 1995 – Double Rush
♦ 1993 – Married… with Children
♦ 1992 – Vinnie & Bobby