Charming brown-eyed actress Amanda Crew is best known for her roles in The Double Life of Charlie Sun Cloud, Age of Adaline and Willpower. Also, the popular Canadian played in the series Silicon Valley, Force Majeure, Adolescent Age and Smallville. In total, Amanda has more than fifty movie roles.
Biography
Amanda Crew was born on June 5, 1986. The actress was born in Langley, British Columbia. The girl's full name is Amanda Catherine Crew. The future actress was educated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles. This branch of the New York higher education institution opened in 1974 and was relocated to Hollywood in 2001. Like many actors, Crewe began her career by appearing in commercials. She starred in music videos for Coca-Cola.
Amanda has a younger sister, Pam, who was born in 1989. Pam's life has nothing to do with cinema. She works in a casino and has two children. Amanda not only stars in films, but is also a technology investor. She attends professional events such as the Elivate Toronto Tech Festival.
Personal life
Since 2010, Amanda has been dating Canadian film and television actor Dustin Milligan, who became world famous after playing Ethan Ward in the drama 90210: The New Generation. The couple lives together, they have a common dog. Dustin and Amanda have co-starred in several films and TV series, including Silicon Valley, Bad City, Motive, Cruel, Sisters and Brothers, Replica Reality and Destination 3.
Amanda is fond of photography and shoots videos. By the way, she herself starred in the videos of Mansionz for the song Rich White Girls and the duet Aly & AJ for the song Take Me. In her youth, Amanda was fond of the work of Alanis Morissette, a Canadian singer, composer, actress and producer. Alanis became internationally popular in 1995 with the release of a super-successful album.
The actress supports LGBT people, attends thematic festivals and is friends with several representatives of non-traditional sexual orientation. Crew is also friends with the actress Amber Boricki, known for the TV series "Supernatural" and "Sex in another city." Amanda and Amber starred together in the comedy John Tucker Die! and the TV series "Whistler".
Since her youth, the actress has been actively involved in sports. She attended a piloxing studio, a relatively new direction that combines boxing and pilates. Amanda was invited to shoot an instructional video on this type of training. If the role demands it, Crewe is willing to work even harder, work with a personal trainer, and include strength training. As a child, the star was engaged in dancing. Crew danced step, hip-hop and jazz.
The actress is a positive, creative person. She loves to come up with surprises for friends, organize themed parties and original photo shoots. She has a great sense of humor. The actress is involved in charity work, especially if the topic concerns her or her family personally. For example, Amanda, who has a history of eating disorders, helps nonprofits to fight them. She also supports the idea of adopting children, since her mother also grew up in a foster family.
Creation
Amanda's first notable role is as the protagonist's younger sister in the horror film Destination 3. The film was nominated for Saturn in 2 categories, but never received a prize. In 2006, she played one of the main roles in the fantasy thriller Inferno Hell. Crew's partners are Casper Van Dien, Vincent Gale and Stephanie von Pfetten. The plot tells about an asteroid that will change the Earth's orbit and cause global warming. A team of scientists is trying to prevent a disaster.
Then the actress got the role of Kerry Miller in the TV series "Whistler". This dramatic thriller has been shown in the USA, Canada and Finland. Amanda's next big role is Marie from The Same Night. Contrary to the romantic name, this is not a melodrama, but a crazy Canadian comedy. Then the main roles went one after another - Joana from "The Monster's Ark", Felicia from "Sexdrive", Wendy from "Ghosts in Connecticut". Amanda played the high-paid hired homeowner Britney in the comedy melodrama Staged Breakup and Tess in the fantasy drama with Zac Efron The Double Life of Charlie Sun Cloud. According to the plot of the last film, the main character rushes between the debts of the past and the desire to start a new life with a beautiful girl.
In 2010, the actress played Sonya Logan in the fantasy detective story Repeating Reality. He talks about a group of people who are stuck in a time maze. In the sitcom Brothers and Sisters, Crewe plays Nikki. The film was screened at the Toronto and Edmonton International Film Festivals. In the comedy Miss Dial, Amanda played the namesake. The film is directed and written by David H. Steinberg. In the thriller Cruel, Crew got the lead role. Her heroine is a famous actress who must destroy the video with compromising material on herself. For the sake of reputation, the girl does anything.
The next big work of the actress in the cinema took place in the comedy melodrama Crazy Kind of Love. She plays the fun-loving and spontaneous Betty, who brings the whole family to life. From 2014 to 2019, Amanda played Monica in the series Silicon Valley. The main characters are high-tech startups. In 2016, the actress played a professional wrestler in the comedy Choke Hold. For this role, Amanda significantly improved her already good physical shape.
In 2018, Crewe got the role of Mary in the fantasy thriller The Others. In the story, a single father is raising a little daughter. He categorically forbids her to leave the house. Once the daughter did not obey her father. In the same year, Crewe starred in the horror film Isabelle. According to the scenario, a young married couple who are expecting a child moves to a new house, where strange and terrible events begin.
