Joey Lauren Adams

Joey Lauren Adams (born January 9, 1968)[1][2] is an American actress and director who has appeared in more than 40 films. She appeared in several Kevin Smith View Askewniverse films, including Chasing Amy, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
== Career ==
Adams began her film career in 1977 with a small role in Exorcist II: The Heretic. From there she began to find larger roles. In 1991, Adams appeared in "Top of the Heap", the 100th episode of Married... with Children, and subsequently starred in its short-lived spinoff. In 1993, Adams landed her first major film role as Simone in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused. The same year, she appeared in the Saturday Night Live spinoff film Coneheads as one of Connie Conehead's friends.
Two years later, Adams appeared in Mallrats, written and directed by Kevin Smith. The two started dating during the film's post-production, and their relationship provided the inspiration for Smith's next film, Chasing Amy. The relationship did not last long, but ended on friendly terms. Meanwhile, in 1996, while Smith was finalizing the script for Chasing Amy, Adams was cast in the slapstick comedy Bio-Dome, which was directed by Jason Bloom. Adams played the role of Monique, Bud Macintosh's (Pauly Shore) girlfriend.[3]
In 1997's Chasing Amy, Adams played the lead role of Alyssa Jones, a lesbianwho falls in love with a man, played by Ben Affleck. Later, Smith would describe Chasing Amy as a "sort of penance/valentine" and a "thank-you homage" to Adams.[4] In addition to her acting work on the film, Adams wrote and performed the song "Alive" for the film's soundtrack.[3]
Adams' performance in Chasing Amy earned her both the 1997 Chicago Film Critics Award and Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Most Promising Actress, and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. From there, Adams was originally slated to play the female lead in Smith's next film, 1999's Dogma, but Linda Fiorentino ultimately was assigned the role.[5] However, she would later make brief appearances in two other Smith projects: the 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and the 2004 animated short Clerks: The Lost Scene, featured on the Clerks X DVD. In both of these appearances, Adams reprises the Alyssa Jones role.[3]
Her post-Smith projects included playing a spunky veterinarian's assistant who falls in love with a single father (Vince Vaughn) in 1998's A Cool, Dry Place. The following year, Adams appeared in her first big-budget Hollywood release, playing Adam Sandler's love interest in the successful comedy Big Daddy. She then went on to appear in many smaller films, including Beautiful and In the Shadows.[3] In 2005, she had a guest role in an episode of the TV series Veronica Mars.
Also in 2006, Adams released her directorial debut film, Come Early Morning, starring Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Diane Ladd, Tim Blake Nelson and Laura Prepon. The film, shot on location in Little Rock, Arkansas, was selected for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.[3]
In 2006, she, along with Lian Lunson and Nicole Holofcener, was awarded the Women in Film Dorothy Arzner Directors Award.[6] On November 24, 2009, Interscope Records released Adams' directorial debut for a music video entitled "Belle of the Boulevard" by Dashboard Confessional.
Adams returned to TV in March 2010, on the Showtime series The United States of Tara. She appeared in six episodes as Pammy, a barmaid who falls for Buck, one of the title character's alternate personalities.
Regarding her voice, she has commented: "It's not a normal voice. It doesn't fit into people's preconceptions about what a woman's voice should sound like. My mom doesn't think I have an unusual voice, though. I'm sure it's helped me get some roles. But Chasing Amy I almost didn't get. There was concern the voice would grate on some people, which some critics said it did."[7] One film critic referred to her voice as a "sex-kitten-on-helium".[8] Another said that whether viewers loved it or hated it, her voice had "the potential to hypnotize."[9]
== Personal life ==
Adams was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas, the youngest of three children. Her father was a lumber yard owner.[1] Adams grew up in the Overbrook neighborhood of North Little Rock and graduated from North Little Rock Northeast High School in 1986. She announced her intention to pursue acting after one year as an exchange student in Australia.[9] She currently resides in Beverly Hills, California.
Adams married Brian Vilim in 2014.[10]
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1993	Coneheads 	Christina 	
1993	Dazed and Confused 	Simone Kerr 	
1993	The Program 	Louanne Winters 	
1993	The Pros & Cons of Breathing 	Shirley 	
1994	Sleep with Me 	Lauren 	
1994	S.F.W. 	Monica Dice 	
1995	Mallrats 	Gwen Turner 	
1996	Bio-Dome 	Monique 	
1996	Drawing Flies 	Hippy Chick 	
1996	Michael 	Anita 	
1997	Chasing Amy 	Alyssa Jones 	Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss(with Carmen Llywelyn)
Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
1999	A Cool, Dry Place 	Beth Ward 	
1999	Big Daddy 	Layla Maloney 	Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress – Comedy
2000	Bruno 	Donna Marie 	
2000	Beautiful 	Ruby 	
2001	Harvard Man 	Chesney Cort 	
2001	Dr. Dolittle 2 	Squirrel (voice) 	
2001	Reaching Normal 	Sarah 	
2001	In the Shadows 	Clarissa Huston 	
2001	Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back	Alyssa Jones 	
2002	Grand Champion 	Hallie 	
2002	Beeper 	Inspector Julia Hyde	
2003	The Big Empty 	Grace 	
2004	The Gunman 	Daphne 	
2005	Conflict 	Ricci Storm 	Short film
2006	The Break-Up 	Addie 	
2007	Bunny Whipped 	Ann 	
2008	Trucker 	Jenny Bell 	
2009	ExTerminators 	Kim 	
2010	Endure 	Sirena Lane 	
2011	Big Swim 	The Egg 	
2011	Apart 	Dr. Jane Sheppard 	
2012	The Birthday Present 	Mom 	Short film
2012	Mulberry Stains 	Savannah 	
2012	Art Machine 	Prudence 	
2013	Blue Caprice 	Jamie 	
2013	A Country Christmas 	Renae Logan 	
2013	She Loves Me Not 	Beth 	
2014	Making the Rules 	Becca 	
2014	Sequoia 	Bev 	
2014	Valley Inn 	Althea 	
2014	Animal 	Vicky 	
2014	All the Birds Have Flown South	Tonya 	
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1991 	Top of the Heap 	Mona Mullins 	7 episodes
1991 	Married... with Children	Mona Mullins 	Episode: "Top of the Heap"
1991 	Married... with Children	Cousin Effie 	Episode: "Buck Has a Belly Ache"
1992 	Vinnie & Bobby 	Mona Mullins 	5 episodes
1992 	CBS Schoolbreak Special 	Dianne 	Episode: "Words Up!"
1993 	Married... with Children	Janie 	Episode: "Wedding Show"
1995 	Love & War 	Vicky 	Episode: "Atlantic City"
1995 	Out of Order 	Whitney 	Episode: "Strange Habit"
1995 	Double Rush 	Dee Dee 	Episode: "Slamming Into a Car Isn't Good"
1996 	Second Noah 	Darby 	5 episodes
1999 	Hercules 	Electra (voice) 	Episode: "Hercules and the Complex Electra"
2003 	As Told by Ginger 	Thea Mipson 	Episode: "Far from Home"
2003–04	Stripperella 	Catt (voice) 	2 episodes
2005 	What's New, Scooby-Doo? 	Rachel (voice) 	Episode: "A Scooby-Doo Valentine"
2005 	Veronica Mars 	Geena Stafford 	Episode: "Weapons of Class Destruction"
2009–10	Party Down 	Diandra Stiltskin 	2 episodes
2010 	Tough Trade 	Shawnelle 	Television film
2010 	United States of Tara 	Pammy 	6 episodes
2010 	Frenemies 	Joy Hardwick 	Unsold TV pilot
2012 	Supermoms 	Kelly 	Unsold TV pilot
2013–14	Switched at Birth 	Jeniece Papagus 	4 episodes
2015 	Grey's Anatomy 	Dr. Tracy McConnell	Episode: "Sledgehammer"
2016–17	Still the King 	Debbie Lynn Cooke 	26 episodes