Amanda Bynes Through the Years
usmagazine.comShe’s all that All That! Amanda Bynes has had a roller-coaster of a ride in Hollywood since she first rose to fame as a cast member on the ‘90s Nickelodeon sketch show.The California native broke into the entertainment business at the age of 7 and quickly became one of the biggest child actors of her generation.
After putting her comedic talents on display on All That for a few seasons, she landed her own series, The Amanda Show, which ran from 1999 to 2002.As her time on both comedy shows came to a close in 2022, Bynes made her big screen debut as Kaylee in Big Fat Liar.
Her success in movies only grew from there, landing the role of Daphne Reynolds in 2003’s What a Girl Wants before starring alongside Channing Tatum in 2006’s She’s the Man.The What I Like About You alum remained a Hollywood staple throughout the early 2000s, with hits that included Hairspray and Sydney White.
She took a brief hiatus from acting in 2010 and announced at the time that she was retiring at 24, explaining via Twitter that “being an actress isn’t as fun as it may seem.”She quickly “unretired” a few weeks later, sharing that she was playing Marianne in 2010’s Easy A, which also starred Emma Stone and Penn Badgley.Two years later, the former child star’s personal life began to make bigger headlines than her career after she was arrested on suspicion of DUI in April 2012.
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