About Amanda Bynes
Amanda Laura Bynes (born April 3, 1986) is an American former actress. Known for playing comedic roles, Bynes began her career as a child actress and received recognition for her roles on the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That (1996–2000), and The Amanda Show (1999–2002), for which she won several Kids' Choice Awards for both. In her mid-teens, Bynes starred in The WB (now The CW) sitcom What I Like About You (2002–2006) and in the teen comedy films Big Fat Liar (2002) and What a Girl Wants (2003). As an adult, she appeared in the films She's the Man (2006), Hairspray (2007), Living Proof (2008), and Easy A (2010), before announcing her retirement from acting. She announced her intent to return in 2018. Upon stepping back from acting full time in 2010, Bynes publicly struggled with mental health and substance abuse. Her legal problems, which persisted from 2012 to 2014, resulted in her parents being granted conservatorship of her from 2013 to 2022. == Early life and education == Bynes was born on April 3, 1986, and raised in Thousand Oaks, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Her father is Catholic and is of Irish, Lithuanian, and Polish descent, and her mother is Jewish, born to a Canadian couple whose families were from Poland, Russia, and Romania. Since childhood, Bynes has been interested in illustration and fashion design.
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