Portrait Manual: Amanda Seyfried - Mamma Mia’s Rising Star - Portrait Magazine, July 2008 Issue

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Amanda Seyfried - Mamma Mia’s Rising Star

By Jenna Templeton


Name/ Age: Amanda Seyfried, 22
Date of Birth: 3 December, 1985
Place of Birth: Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

Who’s that girl?
Amanda started her career of with modelling at the young age of 8, soon after Amanda started appearing in American soap “All my children”.
By the time she was a young adult her college degree was put o hold, as she was to star as the ditzy Karen Smith in teen clique flick Mean Girls alongside Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams.


Lindsay not being the only ‘gossipwood’ girl Amanda would star alongside, but come 2006 she would be seen in Alpha Dog with Justin Timberlake and have a recurring role in teen sleuth drama Veronica Mars.

Mamma Mia
Next up this month Amanda along with a leading cast line up of Colin Firth, Meryl Streep and Pierce Bronsan will be bringing the Abba musical Mamma Mia to the big screen.
Amanda plays Sophie, a bride to be on the hunt to find out who her real father is out of all her mum’s past conquests. Each father’s story in the line of question is being told using...you guessed it, popular Abba songs from the 70’s.


No Mean Popular Feat.
Amanda on the 101 behind ‘real life’ mean girls; “Don’t listen to those mean girls. They’re just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too, but they don’t want to admit that to anybody!” Enough said Amanda!

Catch Mamma Mia in cinemas around the country from July 11.