Anna Faris’s first significant film role was in the independent production Lovers Lane (1999). Her breakout role was the horror film parody Scary Movie (2000). The 5′5″ Faris is a natural blonde,[1] but dyed her hair black for the filming of Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2 so that her character more closely resembled Neve Campbell, who played the equivalent character in Scream, one of the films that Scary Movie parodied.[2]
Us Weekly magazine reports that Faris says it was no laughing matter when she was asked to shed those ten pounds to show off just a bit slimmer figure. She also confesses that she did not feel all that comfortable on set walking around nearly nude.
“For the first two weeks of shooting, I wore my robe and wouldn’t take it off until we filmed,” Faris said. “But then I realized nobody cared; the cast and crew really didn’t care.” Anna decided not to take that as a shot and then was more comfortable walking around in almost nothing.
Her film was a hit, barely losing the weekend to “Tropic Thunder” and Faris was fantastic in the “cute” film.
Faris gained further popularity after becoming recurring character Erica in the final season of the popular American sitcom Friends. She also was in the critically acclaimed film Lost in Translation—in which she plays an actress promoting the fictional action movie Midnight Velocity.
Faris was in the film Waiting… with Ryan Reynolds and Justin Long. In 2005, she appeared again with Reynolds in Just Friends, playing a supporting role as a pop-diva singer named Samantha James. Faris’ role as the motor mouthed LaShawn Malone in Brokeback Mountain (2005) brought her to the attention of a much wider audience, her character being parodied by fans of the movie on the internet. Faris starred with Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson in the feature film My Super Ex-Girlfriend, released on July 21, 2006. She is currently in production on the comedy Kids in America, playing Topher Grace’s twin sister,[3] in addition to her upcoming films Mama’s Boy with Jeff Daniels and Diane Keaton, and Smiley Face with Adam Brody and John Cho. As of 2007, she was producing and starring in The House Bunny, a film with Happy Madison Productions about a retired Playboy bunny.[4] In the summer 2007 season of HBO’s Entourage, Faris guest-starred as herself.
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