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- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Joey Lauren Adams is an American actress and director. Adams appeared in several Kevin Smith View Askewniverse films, including Chasing Amy, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Adams was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas, the youngest of three children. Her father was a lumber yard owner. Adams grew up in the Overbrook neighborhood of North Little Rock and graduated from North Little Rock Northeast High School in 1986. She announced her intention to pursue acting after one year as an exchange student in Australia.
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- SpouseBrian Vilim(June 7, 2014 - present)
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- Her voice
- Is a fan of country music and wrote the song she sings in Chasing Amy (1997).
- When her brother was in a coma from an automobile accident, he would only show a response from her very distinctive voice.
- Kevin Smith was originally planning on casting her in Dogma (1999)--she was his girlfriend at the time-- but then they broke up. He replaced her with Linda Fiorentino.
- Won the Chicago Film Critics "Most Promising Actress" award in 1997 for her performance in Chasing Amy (1997).
- Often mistaken for Renée Zellweger. During her appearance on Dinner for Five (2001) she said the person who most-often makes that mistake is Miramax co-founder Harvey Weinstein.
- [on her distinctive voice] It's not a normal voice. It doesn't fit into people's preconceptions about what a woman's voice should sound like. My mom doesn't think I have an unusual voice, though. I'm sure it's helped me get some roles. But Chasing Amy (1997), I almost didn't get. There was concern the voice would grate on some people -- which some critics said it did.
- 'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.
- There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.
- The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.
- It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.
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