Amy Smart
Amy Smart (born March 26, 1976) is an American television and film actress and former fashion model.
Smart was born in Topanga, California, the daughter of Judy, a museum worker, and John Smart, a salesman. Inspired by her friend Vinessa Shaw, Smart studied ballet for ten years and enrolled in acting classes when she was sixteen, but began her career as a fashion model, working in Italy, France, Mexico, and Tahiti (Awards-winning spots for Club Med directed by Bruno Aveillan).
Smart’s first film role was in director Martin Kunert’s film Campfire Tales, followed by a small role as Queenie in the 1996 rendition of John Updike’s short story, “A&P”. She had a minor role in the 1997 film Starship Troopers as the co-pilot for (and friend of) Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards). She had a starring role in the mini-series titled The 70s, playing a young woman from Ohio.
In 1999, Smart played the girlfriend of a popular football player (played by James Van Der Beek) in the film Varsity Blues.
Smart appeared in the series Felicity, as a girlfriend of Scott Foley’s character.
Other of her films include Road Trip (2000) and The Butterfly Effect (2004). She’s been paired twice as a couple with Breckin Meyer, in both Road Trip and Rat Race.
In 2002, she was ranked #27 in Stuff magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World” and in 2004, she was nominated for “Best Kiss” at the MTV Movie Awards for her role in Starsky & Hutch.
In 2005, Smart co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in the romantic comedy film Just Friends, which had a total domestic box office gross of $32,619,761 and a total worldwide box office of $50,817,598.
Smart was a speaker for the Heal the Bay organization; she has also worked with the Humane Society and the “Environmental Media Association”, and was named one of Organic Style magazine’s “Women with Organic Style” of 2004.
Smart is dating actor Branden Williams, with whom she has been involved for more than 15 years.
Her former roommate and best friend Ali Larter appeared alongside Smart in the film Varsity Blues and modeled with her in Milan.
Smart is also friends with author and animal communicator Amelia Kinkade, and was acknowledged in Kinkade’s second book, The Language of Miracles.
