Anna Faris
Also Known As: Anna Kay Faris, Анна Фэрис, アンナ・ファリス, 안나 패리스, אנה פאריס, אנה קיי פריס, אנה פריס, Анна Феріс, آنا فاریس
Biography: Anna Kay Faris (born November 29, 1976) is an American actress. She rose to prominence for her work in comedic roles, particularly the lead part of Cindy Campbell in the Scary Movie film series (2000–2006). She has appeared in a number of films, including The Hot Chick (2002), May (2002), Lost in Translation (2003), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Just Friends (2005), My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), Smiley Face (2007), The House Bunny (2008), What's Your Number? (2011), The Dictator (2012), and Overboard (2018). On television, Faris had a recurring role as Erica in the final season of the NBC sitcom Friends (2004) and starred as Christy Plunkett in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2020). She has also had voice-over roles in the film series Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009–2013) and Alvin and the Chipmunks (2009–2015), as well as The Emoji Movie (2017). In 2015, Faris launched Unqualified, an advice podcast, and in 2017, her memoir of the same name was published, which became a New York Times Best Seller.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Birthday: November 29, 1976
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Gender: Female
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Brokeback Mountain
Overview: In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-22
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Lost in Translation
Overview: Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-18
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Just Friends
Overview: While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with – a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-23
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May
Overview: A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.
Genres: Drama Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-11
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Scary Movie
Overview: A familiar-looking group of teenagers find themselves being stalked by a more-than-vaguely recognizable masked killer! As the victims begin to pile up and the laughs pile on, none of your favorite scary movies escape the razor-sharp satire of this outrageously funny parody!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-07
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Scary Movie 2
Overview: While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie takes comedic aim at haunted house movies. A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-04
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Scary Movie 3
Overview: In the third installment of the Scary Movie franchise, news anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video tapes, and help the President stop an alien invasion in the process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-24
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Scary Movie 4
Overview: Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-12
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My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Overview: When New York architect Matt Saunders dumps his new girlfriend Jenny Johnson - a smart, sexy and reluctant superhero known as G-Girl - she uses her powers to make his life a living hell!
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-20
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Overview: Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he regain control of the machine and put an end to the wild weather before the town is destroyed?
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-17
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Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
Overview: Follows three social outcasts -- two geeks and a cynic -- as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-24
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Waiting...
Overview: Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order and enthusiastic managers who want to build the perfect wait staff. Luckily, these employees have effective revenge tactics.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
Overview: Pop sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up in the care of Dave Seville's twenty-something nephew Toby. The boys must put aside music super stardom to return to school, and are tasked with saving the school's music program by winning the $25,000 prize in a battle of the bands. But the Chipmunks unexpectedly meet their match in three singing chipmunks known as The Chipettes - Brittany, Eleanor and Jeanette. Romantic and musical sparks are ignited when the Chipmunks and Chipettes square off.
Genres: Comedy Family Animation Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-21
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The Hot Chick
Overview: Not only is Jessica Spencer the most popular girl in school -- she is also the meanest. But things change for the attractive teen when a freak accident involving a cursed pair of earrings and a chance encounter at a gas station causes her to switch bodies with Clive, a sleazy crook. Jessica, in the form of the repulsive Clive, struggles to adjust to this radical alteration and sets out to get her own body back before the upcoming prom.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-13
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My Spy The Eternal City
Overview: JJ, a veteran CIA agent, reunites with his protégé Sophie, in order to prevent a catastrophic nuclear plot targeting the Vatican.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-18
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The House Bunny
Overview: Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-22
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Mama's Boy
Overview: A twenty-nine year-old slacker who lives with his mom realizes his sweet set-up is threatened when she hears wedding bells with her self-help guru beau.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-14
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Smiley Face
Overview: Jane, a struggling but perpetually stoned actress, has a busy day ahead. She has several important tasks on her list, including buying more marijuana. Even though she already has a good start on the day's planned drug use, she eats her roommate's pot-laced cupcakes and embarks on a series of misadventures all over Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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Yogi Bear
Overview: A documentary filmmaker travels to Jellystone Park to shoot a project and soon crosses paths with Yogi Bear, his sidekick Boo-Boo, and Ranger Smith.
Genres: Comedy Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-17
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The Estate
Overview: Down-on-her-luck divorcee Macey and her fickle sister Savanna attempt to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please Aunt Hilda in hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her wealthy estate, only to find the rest of their greedy family members have the same idea.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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What's Your Number?
Overview: Ally Darling is realizing she's a little lost in life. Her latest romance has just fizzled out, and she's just been fired from her marketing job. Then she reads an eye-opening magazine article that warns that 96 percent of women who've been with 20 or more lovers are unlikely to find a husband. Determined to turn her life around and prove the article wrong, Ally embarks on a mission to find the perfect mate from among her numerous ex-boyfriends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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Observe and Report
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-10
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Guilty Hearts
Overview: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter future.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Take Me Home Tonight
Overview: Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin should be well on his way to a successful career at a Fortune 500 company, but instead he rebels against maturity by taking a job at a video store. Matt rethinks his position when his unrequited high-school crush, Tori, walks in and invites him to an end-of-summer party. With the help of his twin sister and his best friend, Matt hatches a plan to change the course of his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-04
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Overview: Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family Music Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-14
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The Dictator
Overview: The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-15
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Movie 43
Overview: A series of interconnected short films are the backdrop for a maniac screenwriter who pitches insane storylines featuring some of Hollywood's biggest and brightest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-24
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The Spleenectomy
Overview: After passionately auditioning for a role in a local community theater production, Judy is cast aside by a pretentious theater director. Lucky for her, she gets another unbelievable chance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-14
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I Give It a Year
Overview: After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their relationship in jeopardy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-08
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Eden
Overview: Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to blossom, but finally she falls into a coma. While she is able to have some 'looking down' awareness of what is happening, her coma is what brings her husband to an understanding of the needs of others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-27
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Overview: After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-26
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Lovers Lane
Overview: A man with a hook for a hand escapes from a mental institution to go after the children of his previous victims.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-05
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Southern Belles
Overview: Bell and Belle want to break out of their trailer park lives and get up and out to the "Big City" of Atlanta. Just when they think they are on their way to getting a nest egg Bell falls for a handsome police officer named Rhett Butler.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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22 Jump Street
Overview: After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-05
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I, Object
Overview: 10-year-old Tom, grieving the loss of his father and unable to relate to the people in his life, takes refuge in the everyday objects around him. Pop can lids, suitcases and untold numbers of everyday objects reveal their true faces and speak to him, helping him on his healing journey.
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Original Language: en
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
Overview: Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in New York City - and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Music Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-17
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Keanu
Overview: Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-29
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Spa Weekend
Overview: The film follows three best friends, Jane, Coco and Sophie, as they embark on some much-needed pampering during a luxury spa break in Palm Springs. But when their trainwreck friend, Mel, turns up, the relaxation quickly descends into chaos with hilarious consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Steve's First Bath
Overview: Flint must quickly alter his plans for a romantic date with Sam after his monkey-cleaning invention goes awry.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-28
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The Emoji Movie
Overview: Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-23
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Overboard
Overview: A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-13
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Winter Break
Overview: Viscerally experience a "year off" in Aspen, Colorado with a group of recent college grads who have elected to defer graduate school and career opportunities to ski, snow-board, climb, party, fall in love and basically live life to its absolute fullest out in this spectacular mountain town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-22
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Super Manny
Overview: Manny saves an adorable kitty with his many skills.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-02
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Friends: The Last One
Overview: The six friends prepare to say goodbye and embark on the next chapters of their lives; momentous events and last-minute surprises.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-06
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