Amanda Seyfried Net Worth, Money and More
NET WORTH: $10 Million
PROFESSION: Actress, Singer, Model
Have you seen Mean Girls? Dear John? Mamma Mia? Letters to Juliet? Jennifer’s Body? Well, if you have, then you have a pretty fair idea about who exactly Amanda Seyfried is. Yes, I am talking about the pretty blonde who has worked her way up in the film industry by working really hard on her craft. She is 28 years old. Seyfried’s career had a very humble beginning. She started out by doing minor roles that went uncredited for. Seyfried began her modeling career at 11 and acting career when she was 15 years old. From playing minor little roles that basically went unnoticed, to acting with the people in the big league, Amanda is slowly and steadily learning how to fly. She is loved and respected by all in the industry.
EARLY LIFE
Seyfried was born in the year 1985, in Allentown, Lehigh County, in Pennsylvania to parents Ann and Jack. Seyfried is mainly of German descent. She also has a elder sister named Jennifer. When Seyfried started modeling, she appeared on various print ads for clothes, along with Leighton Meester. She left modeling when she turned seventeen. Seyfried really wanted to become an actor and so, she took various voice lesson classes, trained with a Broadway coach and even studied opera. She began her acting career with minor roles in television shows like As The World Turns and All My Children. As for her modeling career, Seyfried says that she was very awkward with it as she wasn’t a cute model. She had braces and was really skinny. The only thing that she liked about modeling at that time was that she got money to buy a lot of sweets.
CAREER
After playing quite a few minor roles here and there, Amanda Seyfried played the role of Karen Smith in Mean Girls. The movie was a commercial success. Following this, she was a part of television series Veronica Mars, where her character was shown in flashbacks only. For Seyfried’s role in the film Nine Lives, she won an award from the Locarno International Film Festival, for Best Actress. From 2004-2006, Seyfried guest starred in a lot of television shows like Justice, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, House, M.D., and American Dad!
Seyfried has starred in a lot of cute Romantic Comedies like Mamma Mia!, Boogie Woogie, Dear John, and Letter To Juliet. Dear John received a lot of negative reviews but the film was clearly a commercial success. She even lent her voice to a song in the movie titled “Little House”. In 2010, she received an award for Showest Breakthrough Female Star of the Year. Amanda Seyfried did Red Riding Hood in 2011 and the film mostly received negative reviews but, it was a commercial success.
In 2013, Seyfried appeared in the movie The Big Wedding and did voice acting for the movie Epic. She is also starring in Lovelace. She is also working on He’s F**king Perfect, a romantic comedy.
ASSETS
- Devonshire House was purchased at $1.9 million in the year 2010. It is located in Greenwich village.
- Audi A4
PERSONAL LIFE
Amanda Seyfried has managed to keep a pretty low public profile. She has dated and been around the block. She started dating Justin Long in the year 2013. The couple looks pretty happy together. They make a lovely pair. Seyfried suffers from a few medical problems. She has anxiety and panic attacks. This is the main reason as to why she could never perform in the theatre, live. She suffers from stage fright as well.
Weirdly enough, she is a taxidermy collector. Her collections include a baby horse, fox, moose, owl, hybrid deer, owl and butterflies. She was gifted a taxidermy raccoon by Conan O’Brien when she appeared on Conan.
MEDIA IMAGE
Seyfried has a clear media image. This beautiful woman has been on many Hollywood lists. In 2010, she got the 18th rank in the Hollywood’s Hottest Young Stars list. She even made it to the Most Beautiful With No Make Up On list by the People’s magazine. She has been featured on a lot of magazine covers like Vanity Fair, Teen Vogue and Seventeen. In 2010, she was ranked no 3 on the list of the most Down to Earth Stars. In 2011, she topped the list by People’s magazine called “25 Beauties (and Hotties) at 15″. People magazine also included her name in the 2012 list of the Most Beautiful at Every Age.
FUN FACTS
- She hates going to movie premiers for movies that she is in.
- She appeared on the cover of three Francine Pascal books.
- She admitted to having a crush on Leonardo DiCaprio when she was 11 years old.
- She met her former boyfriend of three years, Dominic Cooper, on the sets of Mamma Mia! in 2007.
- She missed 70 days of school in her last year of high school because of her prior acting commitments.
- She was considered for the roles of Regina and Cady before landing the role of Karen in “Mean Girls”.
- She gave up caffeine, dairy and alcohol for her part in Les Miserables.
- She recently replaced Liv Tyler as the new face of Givenchy.
- She finds jeans to be really sexy.
- She admits being fascinated by weather.
