Amanda Peet

Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American actress, writer and producer. She began her career with small parts on television, and made her feature film debut in Animal Room (1995). Her portrayal of Jill St. Claire in The Whole Nine Yards (2000) brought her wider recognition, and she has since appeared in a variety of films, such as Saving Silverman (2001), High Crimes; Changing Lanes; Igby Goes Down (all 2002), Something's Gotta Give (2003), Identity (2003), Melinda and Melinda (2004), A Lot Like Love (2005), Syriana (2005), Battle for Terra (2007), Martian Child (2008), The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), Please Give (2010), Gulliver's Travels (2010), The Way, Way Back (2013), Identity Thief (2013), and Trust Me (2013). On television, Peet starred as Jacqueline Barrett on The WB's Jack & Jill (1999–2001), as Tina Morris on HBO's Togetherness (2015–2016), as Jules on IFC's Brockmire (2016–2020), and as Betty Broderick on the second season of Dirty John in 2020. She wrote and co-executive produced the Netflix series The Chair that was released in 2021. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amanda Peet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Law & Order

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Release Date1990-09-13

Charactersd Leslie Harlan

Episode Count1

Vote Count621

Seinfeld

A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.

Release Date1989-07-05

Charactersd Lanette

Episode Count1

Vote Count2131

The Good Wife

Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.

Release Date2009-09-22

Charactersd Laura Hellinger

Episode Count7

Vote Count613

How I Met Your Mother

A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.

Release Date2005-09-19

Charactersd Jenkins

Episode Count1

Vote Count5266

Your Friends & Neighbors

When a financial titan suddenly finds himself divorced and jobless, he starts robbing his wealthy neighbors to stay afloat. Stealing from his own social circle strangely exhilarates him—but he gradually gets tangled in a deadly web.

Release Date2025-04-10

Charactersd Mel

Episode Count9

Vote Count91

Spin City

Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.

Release Date1996-09-17

Charactersd Shelly

Episode Count1

Vote Count305

The Single Guy

The Single Guy is an American television sitcom

Release Date1995-09-21

Charactersd Kathy

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

A behind-the-scenes look at a fictional sketch-comedy TV show.

Release Date2006-09-18

Charactersd Jordan McDeere

Episode Count22

Vote Count124

Dirty John

Anthology series in which each season is based on a true crime story featuring an epic tale of love gone wrong.

Release Date2018-11-25

Charactersd Betty Broderick

Episode Count8

Vote Count119

The Romanoffs

An anthology series centered around people who believe themselves to be the modern-day descendants of the Romanov family.

Release Date2018-10-11

Charactersd Olivia Wells

Episode Count1

Vote Count66

Important Things with Demetri Martin

Important Things with Demetri Martin is a sketch-variety show that aired on Comedy Central starring comedian Demetri Martin. Each episode examined a single theme, the "important thing", such as timing, power, control and money. All sketches, short vignettes, animated segments and stand-up comedy were loosely related to the theme of the episode. The show was produced by Jon Stewart's Busboy Productions, and contains stand-up, prop comedy and musical comedy by Martin, as well as taped sketches. Jon Stewart took an active role in editing the first few episodes.

Release Date2009-02-11

Charactersd Actress

Episode Count17

Vote Count24

Fatal Attraction

An affair threatens the lives of Dan Gallagher and his wife, Beth, in this deep-dive reimagining of the classic psychosexual thriller which explores fatal attraction and the timeless themes of marriage and infidelity through the lens of modern attitudes toward strong women, personality disorders and coercive control.

Release Date2023-04-30

Charactersd Beth Gallagher

Episode Count8

Vote Count48

Brockmire

A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife's serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later.

Release Date2017-04-05

Charactersd Jules James

Episode Count20

Vote Count61

Togetherness

Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.

Release Date2015-01-11

Charactersd Tina Morris

Episode Count16

Vote Count99

2012

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.

Release Date2009-10-10

Charactersd Kate Curtis

Vote Count12199

Bent

Newly divorced lawyer and single mom Alex is raising her 10-year-old, Charlie. Hoping to redo her kitchen, she hires Pete, a recovering gambling addict, surfer and womanizer—and the two soon discover they're able to help one another in surprising ways.

Release Date2012-03-21

Charactersd Alex Meyers

Episode Count6

Vote Count23

Jack & Jill

A lighthearted romantic comedy about post-collegiate life, love and career in New York City.

Release Date1999-09-26

Charactersd Jacqueline 'Jack' Barrett

Episode Count32

Vote Count20

Identity

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

Release Date2003-04-25

Charactersd Paris

Vote Count4027

Identity Thief

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

Release Date2013-02-07

Charactersd Trish Patterson

Vote Count3370

Something's Gotta Give

When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also plans to stay for the weekend. Erica is scandalized by the relationship and Harry's sexist ways. But when Harry has a heart attack while there, and the doctor prescribes bedrest, his only option is to stay at the Barry home. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.

Release Date2003-12-12

Charactersd Marin

Vote Count1646

The Whole Nine Yards

After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbours figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit—suburban style.

Release Date2000-02-18

Charactersd Jill St. Claire

Vote Count1944

Gulliver's Travels

Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.

Release Date2010-12-23

Charactersd Darcy Silverman

Vote Count2434

One Fine Day

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.

Release Date1996-12-20

Charactersd Celia

Vote Count678

The Whole Ten Yards

Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski now spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a purported assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past unexpectedly shows up on Jimmy and Jill's doorstep; it's Oz, and he's begging them to help him rescue his wife, Cynthia.

Release Date2004-04-07

Charactersd Jill St. Claire

Vote Count974

Changing Lanes

A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to dismantle the other's life in a reckless effort to reclaim something he has lost.

Release Date2002-04-07

Charactersd Cynthia Delano Banek

Vote Count1142

Syriana

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

Release Date2005-11-23

Charactersd Julie Woodman

Vote Count1400

Two Ninas

After a long lonely period of involuntary celibacy, Marty Sachs decides that he has had enough of New York and wants to pack up and run the family business in Maine. Yet before he leaves, he meets two available, attractive women, both named Nina. Nina Cohen shares many of the same eccentric interests as Marty, but she has grow gun-shy from one too many bad relationships. Blonde bombshell Nina Harris literally knocks Marty off his feet in an ill-fated attempt at snagging a cab.

Release Date2000-12-01

Charactersd Nina Harris

Vote Count6

The X Files: I Want to Believe

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

Release Date2008-07-24

Charactersd ASAC Dakota Whitney

Vote Count1543

A Lot Like Love

On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?

Release Date2005-04-21

Charactersd Emily Friehl

Vote Count1307

High Crimes

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

Release Date2002-04-05

Charactersd Jackie

Vote Count814

The Way Way Back

Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.

Release Date2013-06-06

Charactersd Joan

Vote Count1835

Sleeping with Other People

Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.

Release Date2015-06-26

Charactersd Paula

Vote Count926

Igby Goes Down

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.

Release Date2002-09-13

Charactersd Rachel

Vote Count321

The Ex

When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to adjust to the demands of a very high-powered job, and he finds himself in an increasingly hostile office rivalry with Chip, Sofia's paraplegic former lover.

Release Date2006-12-01

Charactersd Sofia Kowalski

Vote Count240

Battle for Terra

A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.

Release Date2007-09-06

Charactersd Maria Montez (voice)

Vote Count284

Saving Silverman

A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.

Release Date2001-02-09

Charactersd Judith Fessbeggler

Vote Count555

Playing by Heart

In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths unfold, revealing that the heart's desires often lead us where we least expect.

Release Date1998-12-30

Charactersd Amber

Vote Count236

Takedown

Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information, seeking more and more cyber-trophies every day, he constantly looks for bigger challenges. When he breaks into the computer of a security expert and an ex-hacker, he finds one - and much more than that...

Release Date2000-03-15

Charactersd Karen

Vote Count171

She's the One

Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fiance Heather is Francis's secret love. Though both brothers have beautiful wives, Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry

Release Date1996-08-26

Charactersd Molly

Vote Count256

Melinda and Melinda

While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.

Release Date2004-12-22

Charactersd Susan

Vote Count472

Griffin & Phoenix

A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.

Release Date2006-09-12

Charactersd Sarah Phoenix

Vote Count173

Simply Irresistible

After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to open his own eatery, tries her cooking and falls in love.

Release Date1999-02-05

Charactersd Chris

Vote Count240

What Doesn't Kill You

Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.

Release Date2008-12-12

Charactersd Stacy Reilly

Vote Count203

Martian Child

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

Release Date2007-11-02

Charactersd Harlee

Vote Count311

Whipped

Three to one may sound like fairly good odds, but it depends on the game. When the "one" is one very irresistible woman and the "three" are three hopelessly smitten guys, the deck is pretty stacked. In the battle of the sexes, the first rule is to never underestimate the power of a woman.

Release Date2000-09-01

Charactersd Mia

Vote Count51

Body Shots

The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the clubs seeking good times, companionship and maybe a little sex. But in the harsh light of the morning after, their worlds are thrown into a spin of confusion when hungover Sara accuses hard-partying Mike of date rape. Loyalties are tested as each among them is forced to take sides.

Release Date1999-10-07

Charactersd Jane Bannister

Vote Count76

Southie

South Boston Irish bad boy Danny Quinn returns back home from New York and gets stuck between his pals, who are supported by one Irish mafia clan, and his family, which are members of another.

Release Date1998-06-10

Charactersd Marianne Silva

Vote Count10

Trust Me

In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.

Release Date2013-04-20

Charactersd Marcy

Vote Count77

$5 a Day

After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road.

Release Date2008-09-06

Charactersd Maggie

Vote Count91

Animal Room

Cynical and intelligent Arnold Mosk, a known drug user, is put into a disciplinary program at his high school meant for the seriously disturbed where he becomes the main target of the psychopathic Doug Van Housen and his gang.

Release Date1995-01-01

Charactersd Debbie

Vote Count10

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

Dave, a young photon, who is forced out of the Sun on a journey of discovery. He must get to the Cassini Space Craft and save it from the forces of the Void, only Dave does not know exactly what he must do or even where the Cassini Space craft is or what it is. The forces of the Void must destroy Cassini before it sends its great discoveries back to Earth and Dave is the only thing that stands between them and victory.

Release Date2010-09-17

Charactersd Ranger (voice)

Vote Count13

Isn't She Great

An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann.

Release Date2000-01-28

Charactersd Debbie

Vote Count36

Please Give

In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

Release Date2010-04-30

Charactersd Mary

Vote Count153

Fantasy Life

After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters. The girls' mother, Dianne, is an actor whose once-promising career has stalled; she's in a difficult marriage to David, a rock bassist. When David goes abroad on tour, Dianne and Sam discover an easy rapport as well as a shared history of mental illness. Sam joins Dianne's family to babysit for the summer on Martha's Vineyard, and he ends up in a house with the woman he pines for, her husband, the three kids, and all four grandparents, including his psychiatrist.

Release Date2025-03-08

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd

Ellen Foster

After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.

Release Date1998-12-02

Charactersd Julia Hobbs

Vote Count15

Touch Me

Bridgette is an aspiring actress who teaches aerobics at a local gym that's run by the womanizing Adam. After a tryst with Adam, Bridgette scores a role in a big play, but then learns that a former boyfriend is dying of AIDS. While preparing to get tested, Bridgette suspects Adam of cheating on her, and must face the HIV tests alone, which shockingly come back positive. Building a support network, including a penitent Adam, Bridgette faces her own mortality.

Release Date1997-09-05

Charactersd Bridgette

Vote Count6

1999

On New Year's Eve 1999, as a group of neurotic characters gather at a Greenwich Village apartment, everyone struggles to come to terms with their identities, relationships, and self-doubts before the millennium turns.

Release Date1997-09-01

Charactersd Nicole

Vote Count6

Grind

When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's bored young wife. Things only get worse when he tries to turn a quick buck in a one-time insurance fraud operation.

Release Date1997-04-11

Charactersd Patty

Vote Count4

Jump

Friends try to dissuade a suicidal man from jumping off a ledge, but they are not much better off than he is.

Release Date1999-04-17

Charactersd Lisa

Vote Count2

Whatever We Do

Twenty margaritas and 10 shots of tequila, with a few ounces of debauchery, bring four friends closer to the truth than they have been for years.

Release Date2003-01-16

Charactersd Patty

Vote Count15

Origin of the Species

A weekend in a summer house, where six late twenties friends have reunited. A series of life crises force them to confront their relationships and lives, leading them to discover what it really means to grow up.

Release Date1998-01-01

Charactersd Julia

Vote Count4

Zoe Loses It

A woman has a phone conversation with her friend recounting her nighttime adventure to discover why a man has not called after their first date.

Release Date2000-01-01

Charactersd Zoe

Release Date2020-04-08

Charactersd Self - Contestant

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic

This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the famed Disaster movie director (i.e. Roland Emmerich.)

Release Date2010-03-02

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

The Atheist Delusion

Having to prove the existence of God to an atheist is like having to prove the existence of the sun, at noon on a clear day. Yet millions are embracing the foolishness of atheism. “The Atheist Delusion” pulls back the curtain and reveals what is going on in the mind of those who deny the obvious. It introduces you to a number of atheists who you will follow as they go where the evidence leads, find a roadblock, and enter into a place of honesty that is rarely seen on film.

Release Date2016-09-30

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count19

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

Explores the hot-button issues around the striking gender gap in Hollywood. Both women and men in the entertainment industry share first-person insights, questions, and anecdotes about the place of women in Hollywood.

Release Date2016-03-08

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective

A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project.

Release Date2010-03-02

Charactersd Self

Vote Count4

Uta Hagen's Acting Class

Uta Hagen comments on acting

Release Date2004-04-06

Charactersd Self

The Chair

At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.

Release Date2021-08-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count137

Late Show with David Letterman

Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS. The show debuted on August 30, 1993, and is produced by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios. The show's music director and band-leader of the house band, the CBS Orchestra, is Paul Shaffer. The head writer is Matt Roberts and the announcer is Alan Kalter. Of the major U.S. late-night programs, Late Show ranks second in cumulative average viewers over time and third in number of episodes over time. The show leads other late night shows in ad revenue with $271 million in 2009. In most U.S. markets the show airs at 11:35 p.m. Eastern/Pacific time, but is recorded Monday through Wednesday at 4:30 p.m., and Thursdays at 3:30 p.m and 6:00 p.m. The second Thursday episode usually airs on Friday of that week. In 2002, Late Show with David Letterman was ranked No. 7 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. CBS has a contract with Worldwide Pants to continue the show through 2014; by then, Letterman will surpass Johnny Carson as the longest tenured late-night talk show host.

Release Date1993-08-30

Episode Count1

Vote Count156

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities.

Release Date2019-09-09

Episode Count1

Vote Count65

Entourage

Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.

Release Date2004-07-18

Episode Count1

Vote Count576

Central Park West

The glamorous and exciting life for the staff of trendy magazine 'Communique', owned by Allen Rush, "the Darth Vader of publishing".

Release Date1995-09-13

Episode Count3

Vote Count5