AMANDA PEET (Julie Woodman) is an accomplished and versatile film actress who, along with her engaging wit and sense of style, is best known for her diverse choice of roles in romantic comedies, dramas and thrillers. In addition to working with numerous Academy Award-winning and nominated filmmakers including Woody Allen, Stephen Gaghan and Nancy Meyers, she is capable of holding her own in films opposite such acclaimed actors as Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Morgan Freeman, Will Ferrell and John Cusack. Though her work is primarily in film, she has also starred in leading roles in theatrical productions. On the horizon for next year, Peet has a number of high-profile film roles ready for release, and she is set to make her Broadway debut in Barefoot in the Park.

Peet will next be seen in theaters opposite John Cusack in the drama The Martian Child and with Zach Braff and Jason Bateman in the romantic comedy Fast Track. She is currently in production on Griffin and Phoenix with Dermot Mulroney.

Peet most recently starred in the Neil LaBute off-Broadway play This is How it Goes, opposite Ben Stiller and Jeffrey Wright, for which she earned critical acclaim and garnered stellar reviews from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Variety, to name a few.

In December 2005, Peet will begin rehearsals for the Broadway revival of Neil Simon’s comedy Barefoot in the Park, in which she and Patrick Wilson star as newlyweds who move into a small Greenwich Village apartment in the 1960s. Other co-stars include Tony Roberts and Tony Award-nominee Jill Clayburgh. This will be Peet’s Broadway debut.

On screen, Peet most recently starred alongside Ashton Kutcher in A Lot Like Love. Directed by Nigel Cole, the story revolves around a guy and a girl who manage to resist their mutual attraction over the years, only to see fate throwing them back together. She also co-starred in Woody Allen’s Melinda and Melinda opposite Will Ferrell. Other cast members include Chloe Sevigny, Jonny Lee Miller and Radha Mitchell. Melinda & Melinda had its world premiere at the 2004 San Sebastian Film Festival in September 2004.

Peet reprised her role opposite Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry in Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Whole Ten Yards for director Howard Deutch. The film is the continuation of The Whole Nine Yards, the box office hit from 2000. In 2003, Peet was seen in director Nancy Meyers’ Something’s Gotta Give. Peet plays the much younger girlfriend of Jack Nicholson’s character, who proceeds to fall for Peet’s character’s mother, played by Diane Keaton. Frances McDormand and Keanu Reeves round out the cast. Also in 2003, Peet starred alongside John Cusack and Ray Liotta in the thriller Identity for director James Mangold. In 2002, Peet starred with Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd in the thriller High Crimes for director Carl Franklin, and in Changing Lanes, opposite Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Affleck and Sydney Pollack. That same year, she appeared as Jeff Goldblum’s mistress, a beautiful and privileged young woman who is hooked on drugs, in Igby Goes Down, directed by Burr Steers.

Television audiences warmed to her when she starred as Jack on the WB drama, Jack and Jill.

A native of New York, Peet graduated from Columbia University with a degree in American History. While there, she also studied acting under Uta Hagen, which ultimately led her to pursue acting as a career.