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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 - news / articles


  • Faris and Pratt marry - 13 August 2009
    -Anna Faris has married her actor boyfriend Chris Pratt in Indonesia.- -The Scary Movie star has confirmed she and her beau exchanged vows in a low-key ceremony in Bali last month (09Jul09) after previously denying reports they'd tied the knot in Hawaii.- - A spoke


  • Faris moves into producer role - 16 May 2009
    -Anna Faris has vowed to produce all of her upcoming movie projects - in an effort to bolster her acting career and make more female-friendly comedy films.- -The actress admits she is sick of being offered roles in romantic comedies and wants to focus her attention


  • Faris shocked by movie sex scene - 12 April 2009
    -Anna Faris was horrified when she shot her sex scene with Seth Rogen in new movie Observe And Report, because she had to be unconscious, naked and covered in vomit.- -Rogen's mall cop uses tequila to lure Faris' character into bed in the new comedy.- - The actress

Anna Faris - what members say


  • Scary Movie 3
  • Scary Movie 3 review by from Stafford
    Rated - 3 stars Not bad, but not great 23 May 2005
    ...t of the humour. In the first of seemingly disconnected storyline threads, Anna Faris plays the guardian of her nephew who is having visions a la The Ring. There i...  
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Brokeback Mountain review by from Glasgow, Scotland
    Rated - 5 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'. ...  
  • Just Friends
  • Just Friends review by from ilford essex
    Rated - 5 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...  

Anna Faris - filmography


  • 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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,128 member
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  • Observe and Report on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Seth Rogen,  Anna Faris,  Michael Pena
    Director: Jody Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,514 member
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  • Observe And Report - BLU-RAY Version (2009)
    Starring: Seth Rogen,  Ray Liotta,  Anna Faris
    Director: Jody Hill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 269 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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 10,065 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 »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 1,001 member
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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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 23,371 members
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  • Scary Movie 3 on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Pamela Anderson,  Jenny McCarthy,  Charlie Sheen
    Director: David Zucker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 18,632 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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 8,772 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
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 9,706 members
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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 »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 114 members
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  • Scary Movie on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Carmen Electra,  Anna Faris,  Kurt Fuller
    Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 11,536 members
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Anna Faris - watch online


  • FAQ About Time Travel to Watch Now (2009)
    Starring: Chris O'Dowd,  Dean Lennox Kelly,  Marc Wootton
    Director: Gareth Carrivick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £3.49
    Run time: 83 minutes
    Ray is obsessed with time travel and all things sci-fi, Toby is a film nerd with ambition but absolutely no talent and their mate Pete is a sarcastic cynic who prefers darts to Darth Vader. When Ray is approached by Cassie, a beautiful girl who claims to be from the future, and Pete stumbles ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 10 members
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Anna Faris facts

5 most recent films

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - 4.0 stars
FAQ About Time Travel - 3.5 stars
Observe and Report - 2.5 stars
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - BLU-RAY Version - 3 stars
Observe And Report - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - 4.0 stars
FAQ About Time Travel - 3.5 stars
Brokeback Mountain - 3.5 stars
The Hot Chick - 3.0 stars
Scary Movie - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - BLU-RAY Version - 3 stars
I'm Still Waiting For You - 2.0 stars
Smiley Face - 2.0 stars
Scary Movie 4 - BLU-RAY Version - 2.5 stars
Observe and Report - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Carmen Electra - 4 times - show films
Regina Hall - 4 times - show films
Andy Samberg - 2 times - show films
Michael Pena - 2 times - show films
Marc Wootton - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Keenen Ivory Wayans - 3 times - show films
David Zucker - 3 times - show films
Fred Wolf - 2 times - show films
Jody Hill - 2 times - show films
Phil Lord - 2 times - show films