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Amanda Bynes

Actor

Born: 3 April 1986
Birthplace: Thousand Oaks, California
Best known as: Star of TV's What I Like About You
Actress Amanda Bynes was the young star of the movie What a Girl Wants (2003) and the cable TV comedy series What I Like About You. Bynes was already a comedy veteran by the time she became a teenager, having performed for years on Nickelodeon's shows All That (1996-2000) and The Amanda Show (1999-2002), where her skill at broad comedy earned her comparisons to Lucille Ball. She made the leap to the big screen in 2002 as Frankie Muniz's co-star in Big Fat Liar, and starred in 2003's What a Girl Wants (co-starring Kelly Preston). In 2006 she played opposite Channing Tatum in She's the Man, a takeoff on Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, and in 2007 she appeared in the movie version of the musical based on John Waters's Hairspray (2007, with Zac Efron).
Extra credit: Bynes was also a regular panelist on the Nickelodeon's Figure it Out game show.

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  • Channing Tatum - Biography of Channing Tatum, Amanda Bynes's love interest in She's the Man
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  • Zac Efron - Biography of Zac Efron, Co-star of the Disney High School Musical movies

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