Amanda Bynes: Career, Mental Health, current pursuit

Amanda Laura Bynes started acting in Children’s sketch comedy series “All That and then “Amanda Show” on Nickelodeon.

He has made so many appearances in the film industry that her absence rises concern among fans.

Amanda was born on April 3, 1986, in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks. She is one of three children to parents Rick and Lynn Bynes.

Career

Bynes began her acting career at 7 years old in a Nestlé candy commercial and was later scouted while attending comedy camp at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles.

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She went on to star in the Nickelodeon show All That for four seasons starting in 1996. Conveying a high degree of comedic skill and timing at a young age, a 13-year-old Bynes then became the star of her own skit-based series The Amanda Show.

Soon, producers and journalists would be comparing her to Lucille Ball, Gilda Radner, and Carol Burnett. The Amanda Show ran for three seasons and garnered the actor three Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards.

In 2002, a teenage Bynes became co-star of the WB Network series What I Like About You, in which she played a fun-loving younger sibling to actor Jennie Garth, formerly of Beverly Hills 90210. The show introduced her to an older audience that expanded her fanbase beyond kids.

At age 15, Bynes made the transition to movies by starring in the 2002 film Big Fat Liar with fellow teen actor Frankie Muniz. The following year, she had the lead role in the movie What a Girl Wants, in which her character was a New York City teen who travels to London to find her wealthy father, played by Colin Firth. Next, Bynes did voiceover work for the 2005 animated film Robots.

In 2006, she was back in two lead roles. In She’s the Man, a modern retelling of William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night, her character disguises as her brother in order to keep playing high school soccer but finds herself falling for a teammate, played by co-star then-25-year-old Channing Tatum.

Years later, Bynes took credit for launching Tatum’s career with the film, telling Paper magazine: “I totally fought for Channing [to get cast in] that movie because he wasn’t famous yet.

He’d just done a Mountain Dew commercial, and I was like, ‘This guy’s a star—every girl will love him!’ But [the producers] were like, ‘He’s so much older than all of you!’ And I was like, ‘It doesn’t matter! Trust me!’” Her other starring role that year was in the tropical romantic comedy Lovewrecked.

Then, in 2007, she landed a major supporting role in the musical film adaptation of Hairspray. Bynes played Penny Lou Pingleton, a girl who has a budding romance with a Black boy in 1960s Baltimore. The movie was a hit, earning more than $100 million at the box office and receiving multiple award nominations. Later that year, Bynes had the lead role in the college film Sydney White and also released her own clothing line.

In 2010, at age 23, Bynes embraced a sexier adult image as she posed for the cover of Maxim magazine. She also appeared in her final acting role to date as a gossiping student in Easy A, a comedic retooling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter that also featured Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Stanley Tucci, and Patricia Clarkson.

The young star would soon face difficult times. Her acting opportunities slowed, and she shared via her now-defunct Twitter feed that she was retiring from the show biz.

She wanted a break after working professionally since she was a child. A month later, she posted again on Twitter that she was “unretired.”

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Struggles

In a 2018 profile, Bynes opened up to Paper about her history of substance abuse — at the time, she said been sober for around four years.

The “Sydney White” star wasn’t one for partying during her earlier years in the spotlight, but that changed as time went on.

“I started smoking marijuana when I was 16. Even though everyone thought I was the ‘good girl,’ I did smoke marijuana from that point on.” she told Paper. “I didn’t get addicted (then) and I wasn’t abusing it. And I wasn’t going out and partying or making a fool of myself … yet.”

Then she moved onto other drugs. “Later it progressed to doing molly and ecstasy,” she continued, noting she also tried cocaine but disliked it.

Adderall was another drug she said she abused, acquiring a prescription from a psychiatrist after pretending to have symptoms of attention deficit disorder. At the time, she had read an article about the drug being used to stay skinny, according to Paper.

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