- Amy is so often mistaken for friend Isla Fisher that Isla and her prankster husband Sacha Baron Cohen once pasted Amy's face over Isla's on their custom holiday greeting cards with the message, "Season Greetings from Sacha, Isla and the Kids." Apparently, no one noticed.
- As of 2019, she has appeared in five films that have been Oscar nominated for Best Picture: The Fighter (2010), American Hustle (2013), Her (2013), Arrival (2016) and Vice (2018).
- Was admittedly so distracted by co-star Lee Pace while filming Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), since "he just looked so dashing", that the director had to ask him leave the set.
- Best friends with actress Emily Blunt. The two became very close while filming Sunshine Cleaning (2008).
- Did her own singing in The Muppets (2011), Enchanted (2007) and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008).
- She and Leonardo DiCaprio where both 28 years old when they portrayed teenage lovers in Catch Me if You Can. Adams considered that film a turning point in her career.
- Is a trained dancer.
- Meryl Streep taught her how to knit.
- Was born on the U.S. military base located in Aviano, Italy, but spent part of her childhood in the U.S. military base located in Vicenza, Italy.
- Worked in a Hooters Restaurant until soon after she turned 18, when they started making her wear the customary outfits.
- Was 1 month pregnant with her daughter Aviana when she completed filming on The Fighter (2010).
- As a gesture of support to the U.S. troops, she privately gave her first-class seat to an American soldier who was on the same flight from Detroit to Los Angeles in 2014. She gladly took a seat in standard coach.
- During a red carpet interview at the 81st Academy Awards, she claimed to suffer from extreme stage fright and claustrophobia.
- She was born in Italy and raised in Castle Rock, Colorado.
- Her favorite films include Gone with the Wind (1939), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Casablanca (1942), Vertigo (1958), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Paulie (1998) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000).
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6280 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 11, 2017. Introduced by her Arrival (2016) co-star, Jeremy Renner, and director, Denis Villeneuve.
- Her father was in the military and was also an amateur actor.
- She had considered quitting acting before doing the film Junebug (2005).
- Was in attendance at the wedding of her Sunshine Cleaning (2008) co-star and best friend Emily Blunt to John Krasinski (July 10, 2010).
- Auditioned for Lois Lane twice before being cast in Man of Steel (2013). She first auditioned for the cancelled project "Superman Flyby" and Superman Returns (2006).
- Is one of seven children of Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams.
- Has made two movies back-to-back starring Meryl Streep: Doubt (2008) and Julie & Julia (2009). In the latter, she has no scenes with Streep.
- Her performance as Ashley Johnsten in Junebug (2005) was named the sixth best performance of the decade in Paste magazine's 25 Best Movie Performances of the Decade.
- Is a natural blonde. Dyes her hair red.
- Her brother, Eddie Adams, works for the tabloid show TMZ.
- Tenth highest paid actress of 2017 with $11.5 million.
- Mother, with husband Darren Le Gallo, of a daughter Aviana Olea Le Gallo (b. May 15, 2010).
- Named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. (April 2014)
- Wanted to be a singing nurse as a child.
- As of 2019, the longest she has gone without an Oscar nomination, since her first one, is six years, between American Hustle (2013) and Vice (2018).
- She didn't attend drama school or study acting.
- Met her boyfriend, Darren Le Gallo, in 2001 in an acting class.
- Enjoys singing karaoke.
- In elementary school, she was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed Ritalin, which she still takes as an adult. Attended and graduated from Douglas County High School in Castle Rock, Colorado.
- Has appeared in the series episode, Craving (2001), which is about the early life of Clark Kent before he became Superman. She later went on to play Superman's main love interest, Lois Lane, in Man of Steel (2013). Is one of several actors who guest starred on the series and returned in the Superman film, along with Alessandro Juliani, Tahmoh Penikett and David James Lewis.
- Adams, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Marion Cotillard, Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Daniel Brühl and Jake Gyllenhaal are the only actors to receive a Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA and Critics' Choice Award nomination for the same performance and then fail to be Oscar-nominated for it: for their performances in Arrival (2016), The Departed (2006), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Rust and Bone (2012), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Rush (2013) and Nightcrawler (2014), respectively.
- Named one of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in the World (2008).
- Once worked at Gap, a clothing store chain.
- She and Gal Gadot are the first live action Lois Lane and Diana Prince/Wonder Woman to be onscreen together.
- Is just 10 years younger than Laura Linney, who played her mother in Nocturnal Animals (2016).
- Her ancestry includes English, as well as smaller amounts of Danish, Swiss-German, and Norwegian, and more distant Welsh, German, Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish.
- The first job she ever had (at age 12) was selling licorice at a rodeo in Ogden, Utah, while staying with her grandparents. She later worked as a 'greeter' at The Gap store in the Lenox Mall in Buckhead, Atlanta, where she once had rare opportunity to greet Whitney Houston as she entered the store. Whitney didn't take too kindly to Amy's cloying store formalities and quickly requested a different salesperson to assist her.
- For a time Amy's teenage crush was future co-star Leonardo DiCaprio during his stint in Growing Pains (1985).
- Alumna of the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre in Minnesota. Appeared there in many productions including "Brigadoon" and "Good News.".
- Invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in 2006.
- Second actress with red hair to portray Lois Lane (preceded by Noel Neill).
- Through her sixth generation great-grandparents Thomas and Elizabeth Shipp is a fifth cousin twice removed of Harry S. Truman. Through the same Shipp ancestors is a seventh cousin once removed to both Johnny Depp and John Edwards.
- Returned to work 3 months after giving birth to her daughter Aviana in order to begin filming On the Road (2012).
- Sang in the school choir at Douglas County High School.
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