Amanda Bynes
Actor
Amanda Bynes is the young star of the movie
What a Girl Wants (2003) and the cable TV comedy series What I Like About You. Bynes was already a comedy veteran by the time she became a teenager, having performed for years on Nickelodeon's shows
All That (19962000) and The Amanda Show (19992002), where her skill at broad comedy earned her comparisons to
Lucille Ball. She made the leap to the big screen in 2002 as Frankie Muniz's costar in
Big Fat Liar, and starred in 2003's What a Girl Wants (costarring
Kelly Preston). In 2006 she played opposite
Channing Tatum in
She's the Man, a takeoff on
Shakespeare's play
Twelfth Night.
Extra credit: Bynes was also a regular panelist on the Nickelodeon's
Figure it Out game show.
Other teen movie stars of Bynes's era include
Lindsay Lohan,
Hilary Duff and
Anne Hathaway.
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