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Amanda Bynes was born on April 3rd, 1986 in Thousand Oaks, California. Her father was a dentist and also practiced stand-up comedy. Her mother was a dental assistant. She has an older brother and sister. Her father is Catholic and her mother Jewish, Bynes herself has chosen to practice Judaism. She had always aspired to be a comedian. She trained with Arsenio Hall and Richard Pryor at a comedy camp when she was young. Her first role came when she was only seven years old in a TV commercial. In 1996 she was cast by the Nickelodeon channel in All That and later, in 1996 was cast in The Amanda Show. She also did voice work for the popular Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats.

Her movie debut came in 2002 opposite Frankie Muniz in Big Fat Liar. Her first leading role came in 2003 in the movie What a Girl Wants. Both films did well at the box-office and won her good critical reviews. She returned to TV in What I Like About You on the WB network. Although she is often compared with Lindsey Lohan and Hilary Duff, she has stated that she doesn't feel she is quite as glamorous as her contemporaries and feels that she is more of an average teenager.

In 2006 she starred in She's the Man, which is a comedy based on William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night. In the film, which opened in March 2006, Bynes disguises herself as her brother in order to join an elite boarding school.

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