Who is Amanda Seyfried?

Amanda Seyfried is an American actress and singer-songwriter.

She is best known for her roles in Mean Girls and Mamma Mia.

She has also appeared in Alpha Dog and in the television shows Veronica Mars and Big Love.

Amanda Seyfried: Early life, Childhood, and Education

Amanda Seyfried was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on December 3, 1985.

Her mother Ann is an occupational therapist and her father Jack Seyfried is a pharmacist.

She is mostly of German descent, with smaller amounts of English, Scots-Irish, and Welsh ancestry.

She has an older sister, Jennifer Seyfried a musician in the Philadelphia organ-driven rock band Love City.

Amanda Seyfriedalso wanted to act and sing. She studied opera with a voice coach during her teen years.

On the acting front, her first contract role came at age 15, playing Lucinda Marie “Luck” Montgomery on the soap opera As the World Turns (2000).

She next appeared as Joni Stafford in another soap opera, All My Children (2002).

Seyfried graduated in 2003 from Allentown’s William Allen High School, but a career-changing movie role in a teen flick changed her plans.