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With her blue eyes, pillow lips and sex-kitten-on-helium voice, Joey
Lauren Adams looks and sounds like Melanie Griffith's long-lost
little sister. Adams, however, is an actress in her own right, having
done solid work in a number of films, including Dazed and Confused
and Chasing Amy.
Hailing from North Little Rock, Arkansas, where she was born
January 6, 1971, Adams began acting early in her life, performing at
local church productions. She left home for Los Angeles while still a
teenager, and got her first break with roles on various television
shows. She won a limited amount of fame--or notoriety, depending
on one's point of view--for her work on Married with Children, on
which she played the woman who relieved Bud Bundy of his virginity.
Work on the short-lived series Vinnie & Bobby and Top of the Heap
followed before Adams broke into film in 1993. That year, she had
supporting roles in The Program, Coneheads and Dazed and
Confused, the last of which featured her as one of Parker Posey's
high school cronies. The next year, she appeared in the independent
films S.F.W. and Sleep with Me, and then had a secondary role in
Mallrats (1995), her first collaboration with then-boyfriend Kevin
Smith. It was Smith who gave Adams her true film breakthrough
when he cast her as the female lead in Chasing Amy. The 1997
film--a look at the relationship between a comic book artist (Ben
Affleck) and his "ideal" woman (Adams), who happens to be a
lesbian--won favorable reviews and effectively put Adams on the
Hollywood map. In 1999 she had a lead role in another independent
film, the drama A Cool Dry Place with Vince Vaughn, and also
starred in her first big-budget Hollywood feature, the hit Adam
Sandler comedy Big Daddy. ~ Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide
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