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).
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