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Anna Faris

Anna Faris
Anna Kay Faris was born on the 29th November 1976 in Baltimore in Maryland. She gave her first professional acting performance at the age of nine, at the Seattle Repertory Theatre.
Anna has had roles in Deception: A Mother's Secret as Liz and in Eden as Dithy but her first significant film role was in the independent production called Lovers Lane as Janelle.
Lovers Lane is also known as I'm Still Waiting For You opposite Riley Smith, Sarah Lancaster and Erin J. Dean. This film is listed on Lovefilm as I'm Still Waiting For You on DVD for anyone who wants to watch it.
Anna then went on to star in the horror film parody called Scary Movie as Cindy Campbell, then reprised the role in Scary Movie 2, Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4. Anna dyed her hair black for the filming of Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4 so that her character more closely resembled Neve Campbell, who played the corresponding character in Scream, one of the films that Scary Movie parodied.
Other film roles followed including starring in May as Polly, The Hot Chick as April and Winter Break as Justine.
Anna also starred in the critically acclaimed film called Lost In Translation alongside Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, in which she plays an actress called Kelly who is promoting the fictional action movie Midnight Velocity.
Anna then gained a lot of popularity after becoming the recurring character of Erica in the final season of the sitcom Friends with Courtney Cox Arquette, Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, Matt Le Blanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry.
Other film roles include Southern Belles as Belle and Waiting as Serena opposite Ryan Reynolds and Justin Long. She appeared again with Ryan Reynolds in Just Friends, as a pop-diva singer named Samantha James.
Anna then went on to play LaShawn Malone in Brokeback Mountain with the late Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams.
Anna starred with Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Wanda Sykes, Rainn Wilson, and Eddie Izzard in the film My Super Ex-Girlfriend as Hannah.
Other starring roles include playing Jane F in Smiley Face opposite Adam Brody and John Cho, Nora Flannagan in Mama's Boy with Jon Heder, Jeff Daniels, and Diane Keaton and herself in Entourage for 3 episodes.
But perhaps Anna's most popular role is that of playing Shelley Darlington - a retired Playboy bunny in the film called The House Bunny with Katharine McPhee, Colin Hanks, Kat Dennings, Emma Stone, Rumer Willis, Kiely Williams, Dana Goodman and Kimberly Makkouk.
Another of Anna's latest film roles are in Young Americans as Wendy Franklin with Topher Grace, Dan Fogler, Michelle Trachtenberg (who played Dawn in Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and Chris Pratt.
Other film roles include FAQ About Time Travel as Cassie opposite Dean Lennox Kelly, Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wootton and Dario Attanasio and in Observe and Report as Brandi with Seth Rogen and Ray Liotta.
She has also been in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs as the voice of Sam with Bill Hader and Bruce Campbell and in Alvin and the Chipmunks II - The Squeakuel as the voice of Brittany with Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney.







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  • Anna Faris discovered comedy skills during embarrassing lunch break - 1 May 2012
    -Funnywoman Anna Faris realised her talent for comedy after an embarrassing butt-baring moment in New York.-The actress has made a name for herself as one of Hollywood's funniest women through her roles in the Scary Movie franchise and the highly-anticipated new Sac


  • Faris grew armpit hair for months to play The Dictator's leading lady - 20 April 2012
    -Actress Anna Faris couldn't wait to finish filming Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageous comedy The Dictator - because the funnyman insisted she grow disgusting armpit hair for her role as an organic grocery store boss.-While Cohen and her co-stars were celebrating at the


  • What's Your Number? Interactive Q&A with Anna Faris - 14 September 2011
    -Here's where you can get involved with our live Anna Faris Q&A, when we talk to her about her new film, What's Your Number?.- -The chatroom will be open from 7pm GMT+1 and the Q&A is scheduled to kick off from 8:15pm GMT+1 - so have your questions at the ready!-

Anna Faris - what members say


  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Brokeback Mountain review by from Glasgow, Scotland
    Rated - 5.0 stars How to make a love story 19 January 2006
    ...ery make this film a surefire hit! Also look out for a cameo from the hilarious Anna Faris. There is much more to Brokeback Mountain than a simple 'gay cowboy movie'. ...   Read customer review
  • Just Friends
  • Just Friends review by from ilford essex
    Rated - 5.0 stars just bloody brilliant!!! 11 January 2006
    ...same way again. amy smart doesn't give the best performance of her career, but Anna Faris is brilliant - completely different to her scarey movie character or when she w...   Read customer review
  • My Super Ex-Girlfriend
  • My Super Ex-Girlfriend review by A customer from county durham,uk
    Rated - 3.0 stars not super like the title, but worth a watch! 31 December 2006
    ...film is funny. There is a good cast and there is great acting, that blonde girl Anna Faris out of the Scary Movie's in aswell. overall worth a watch to pass time. ...   Read customer review

Anna Faris - filmography


  • The Dictator - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen,  Megan Fox,  Anna Faris
    Director: Larry Charles
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Sacha Baron Cohen re-teams with director Larry Charles on their newest slice of satire with this Paramount Pictures release concerning a foreign dictator and a goat herder (both played by Cohen) as they make their way across America. Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, and Jason Mantzoukas head up the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 14 members
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  • What's Your Number? - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Ari Graynor,  Chris Evans,  Anna Faris
    Director: Mark Mylod
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Inspired by author Karyn Bosnak's novel 20 TIMES A LADY, director Mark Mylod's freewheeling comedy tells the tale of one hopelessly single women who's convinced she's passed up the man of her dreams. Upon reading a magazine article that leaves her dejected about her future marriage prospects, Ally ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 30 members
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  • Yogi Bear - 3D Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Dan Aykroyd,  Justin Timberlake,  Anna Faris
    Director: Eric Brevig
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Hanna-Barbera's beloved picnic-basket-stealing bear makes his big-screen debut in this live-action/animation mix children's flick from JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH director Eric Brevig. The tourists just aren't flocking to Jellystone Park like they used to, and when the budget starts to get ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 53 members
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  • Yogi Bear - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Dan Aykroyd,  Justin Timberlake,  Anna Faris
    Director: Eric Brevig
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Hanna-Barbera's beloved picnic-basket-stealing bear makes his big-screen debut in this live-action/animation mix children's flick from JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH director Eric Brevig. The tourists just aren't flocking to Jellystone Park like they used to, and when the budget starts to get ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,575 members
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  • Yogi Bear on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Dan Aykroyd,  Justin Timberlake,  Anna Faris
    Director: Eric Brevig
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Hanna-Barbera's beloved picnic-basket-stealing bear makes his big-screen debut in this live-action/animation mix children's flick from JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH director Eric Brevig. The tourists just aren't flocking to Jellystone Park like they used to, and when the budget starts to get ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 7,319 members
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  • FAQ About Time Travel on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Anna Faris,  Chris O'Dowd,  Dean Lennox Kelly
    Director: Gareth Carrivick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Ray (Chris O'Dowd - "The IT Crowd") is obsessed with time travel and all things sci-fi, Toby (Marc Wooton - "Confetti") is a film nerd with ambition but absolutely no talent and their mate Pete (Dean Lennox Kelly - "Shameless") is a sarcastic cynic who prefers darts to Darth Vader. When Ryan is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 5,615 members
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  • Observe and Report on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Seth Rogen,  Anna Faris,  Michael Pena
    Director: Jody Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Bi-polar mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective, is recruited to close the case.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 7,573 members
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  • Observe and Report - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Seth Rogen,  Anna Faris,  Michael Pena
    Director: Jody Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    THE FOOT FIST WAY director Jody Hill takes the helm for this Seth Rogen comedy concerning an ambitious mall cop who competes with a seasoned detective to bust an elusive flasher. Make a wrong move at Forest Ridge Mall, and you'll have to answer to no-nonsense security head Ronnie Barnhardt (Rogen). ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 2,309 members
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  • The House Bunny on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Anna Faris,  Colin Hanks,  Emma Stone
    Director: Fred Wolf
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When Shelly, a Playboy bunny, is tossed out of the mansion, she has nowhere to go until she falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members of the sorority - who also have got to be the seven most socially clueless women on the planet - are about to lose their house. They need a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 13,466 members
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  • The House Bunny - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Rumer Willis,  Colin Hanks,  Emma Stone
    Director: Fred Wolf
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Comic actress Anna Faris (LOST IN TRANSLATION, SCARY MOVIE) shines in her starring turn in THE HOUSE BUNNY, a hilarious and heartfelt tale of female empowerment. As the film opens, Shelly Darlingson (Farris) is Big Bunny on Campus at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion. With her 27th birthday approaching,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,404 members
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  • Smiley Face on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Steve Golin,  Anna Faris,  Danny Trejo
    Director: Gregg Araki
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jane F, an unsuccessful slacker actress, is having a bad day. And it's getting more outrageous and comically surreal by the minute. Jane's misadventures begin when she treats herself to a batch of cupcakes left unattended by her psycho roommate that prove not as innocent as they appear, Soon, she ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 1,458 member
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  • Scary Movie 4 - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Anthony Anderson,  Craig Bierko,  Carmen Electra
    Director: David Zucker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Just when you thought it was safe to go back to watching movies...Scary Movie 4 rears its ugly head and delivers more delightfully twisted comedy. This fourth and final chapter in the award-winning trilogy stars Anna Faris (Scary Movie 1, 2 & 3), Regina Hall (Scary Movie 1, 2 & 3) and Craig Bierko ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 1,348 member
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  • My Super Ex-Girlfriend on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Uma Thurman,  Luke Wilson,  Wanda Sykes
    Director: Ivan Reitman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Matt Saunders (Luke Wilson) has dealt with his share of difficult women, but when he meets bookish beauty Jenny Johnson (Uma Thurman), his instincts tell him this one is a whole new kind of trouble. After initially playing hard to get, Jenny quickly latches onto Matt, professing her love to him ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 43,571 members
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  • Guilty Hearts (2006)
    Starring: Kathy Bates,  Julie Delpy,  Andrea Di Stefano
    Director: George Augusto,  Savina Dellicour
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    "Guilty Hearts" follows the lives of nine strangers living worlds apart as they look for love, happiness, success, and friendship against all odds. Carrying the burden of guilt, they must escape their pasts before they can move forward.
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  • Scary Movie 4 on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Anthony Anderson,  Craig Bierko,  Carmen Electra
    Director: David Zucker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Just when you thought it was safe to go back to watching movies...Scary Movie 4 rears its ugly head and delivers more delightfully twisted comedy. This fourth and final chapter in the award-winning trilogy stars Anna Faris (Scary Movie 1, 2 & 3), Regina Hall (Scary Movie 1, 2 & 3) and Craig Bierko ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 20,865 members
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  • Brokeback Mountain on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal,  Linda Cardellini,  Heath Ledger
    Director: Ang Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ang Lee comes an epic American love story, Brokeback Mountain . Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, the film tells the story of two young men -- a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy -- who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 75,716 members
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  • Just Friends on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ryan Reynolds,  Anna Faris,  Chris Klein
    Director: Roger Kumble
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A hip music executive (Ryan Reynolds) gets stranded in his New Jersey hometown and becomes reacquainted with the woman (Amy Smart) who, years earlier, rejected him in high school.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 28,881 members
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  • Scary Movie 3.5 - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Pamela Anderson,  Jenny McCarthy,  Charlie Sheen
    Director: David Zucker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    What would happen if the characters in the thrillers SIGNS and THE RING started to hang out together... The answer: SCARY MOVIE 3. In the latest spoof from director David Zucker (TOP SECRET, THE NAKED GUN), beautiful television reporter Cindy (Anna Faris) covers a story about mysterious crop ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 95 members
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  • Scary Movie 3 on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Pamela Anderson,  Jenny McCarthy,  Charlie Sheen
    Director: David Zucker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    When mysterious crop circles appear and her friend is killed by a video tape, news anchorwoman Cindy Campbell investigates the link. This eventually leads to her trying to help the President of the United States prevent an alien invasion.
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 19,587 members
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  • The Hot Chick on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Rob Schneider,  Anna Faris,  Eric Christian Olsen
    Director: Tom Brady
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Rob Schneider is the titular chick, Jessica, a stuck-up high school prom queen who wakes up one morning trapped in the body of an unattractive 30-year-old man. Thanks to a curse attached to some ancient earrings, Jessica has changed bodies and now must convince hot chick pals April (Anna Faris, of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 9,718 members
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  • Scary Movie 2 on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Anna Faris,  Regina Hall,  Shawn Wayans
    Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    The Wayans brothers scored a surprise monster hit with SCARY MOVIE, and in the advertising for that film they promised "no sequel." So here it is, SCARY MOVIE 2, featuring the return of Shawn and Marlon Wayans as well as Anna Faris and Regina Hall in addition to some new faces added to the gross-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 10,627 members
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  • Scary Movie 2 - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Anna Faris,  Regina Hall,  Shawn Wayans
    Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    The Wayans brothers scored a surprise monster hit with SCARY MOVIE, and in the advertising for that film they promised "no sequel." So here it is, SCARY MOVIE 2, featuring the return of Shawn and Marlon Wayans as well as Anna Faris and Regina Hall in addition to some new faces added to the gross-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 117 members
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  • Scary Movie - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Carmen Electra,  Anna Faris,  Kurt Fuller
    Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    In the tradition of such genre parodies as AIRPLANE!, THE NAKED GUN, and SPACEBALLS, Keenen Ivory Wayans takes on the teen horror flick with SCARY MOVIE, a campy, riotous send-up of everything from the SCREAM and HALLOWEEN franchises to I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, CARRIE, and THE BLAIR WITCH ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,621 member
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  • I'm Still Waiting For You on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Erin J. Dean,  Sarah Lancaster,  Riley Smith
    Director: Jon Ward
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Thirteen years ago on Valentine's Day, two young lovers were brutally murdered at the local Lovers Lane. The killer, known as the Hook because of his weapon, was caught and arrested by the police and imprisoned in a nearby institution for the criminally insane. However, now it's Valentine's Day ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 128 members
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  • Scary Movie on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Carmen Electra,  Anna Faris,  Kurt Fuller
    Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    In the tradition of such genre parodies as AIRPLANE!, THE NAKED GUN, and SPACEBALLS, Keenen Ivory Wayans takes on the teen horror flick with SCARY MOVIE, a campy, riotous send-up of everything from the SCREAM and HALLOWEEN franchises to I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, CARRIE, and THE BLAIR WITCH ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 12,748 members
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Anna Faris facts

5 most recent films

The Dictator - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Dictator - 3.5 stars
What's Your Number? - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Take Me Home Tonight - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
What's Your Number? - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - 3D Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - 3.5 stars
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
FAQ About Time Travel - 3.5 stars
The Dictator - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Guilty Hearts - 3 stars
Take Me Home Tonight - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Dictator - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
What's Your Number? - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Friends - Series 1-10 - Complete - Blu-ray - 5.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Regina Hall - 8 times - show films
Aziz Ansari - 5 times - show films
Carmen Electra - 5 times - show films
T.J. Miller - 4 times - show films
Tracy Morgan - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Keenen Ivory Wayans - 6 times - show films
David Zucker - 5 times - show films
Eric Brevig - 4 times - show films
Phil Lord - 4 times - show films
Chris Miller - 4 times - show films