| Amanda Laura Bynes was born on April 3, 1986 in Thousand Oaks, California. The youngest of three children, she became interested in acting and performing from the very young age of three, when she would say her older sister Jillian's lines with her while she performed in plays. It was from then on that her family and friends knew that she would be a star some day. Her acting debut was in 1996 when she auditioned for and got the role as a newcomer on "All That" (1994). Right away, she became very popular as people enjoyed her acting and skits, especially the "Ask Ashley" skit, where she played a little girl running an advice column who would get very angry every time she read a letter. In 1999, thirteen-year-old Amanda was given her own variety show, "The Amanda Show" (1999), in which she starred in all of the skits except "Totally Kyle". On April 3, 2004, Amanda celebrated her eighteenth birthday on the 17th Annual KCA Awards, where we she won an award for best actress for her role in What a Girl Wants (2003). She graduated from Thousand Oaks High School's independent study program on June 10, 2004 and filmed Lovewrecked (2005) in 2004.
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