Amy Adams

At 49 years old, Amy Adams has this physical status:

Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress.

She has appeared in three separate annual lists of the world's highest-paid actresses, both for her comedic and dramatic appearances.

Her honors include two Golden Globes, three Academy Awards, and seven British Academy Film Awards. Adams, who was born in Vicenza, Italy, and raised in Castle Rock, Colorado, is the fourth of seven siblings.

She wanted to be a ballerina, but at the age of 18, she discovered musical theater to be a better match, and she spent time in dinner theater from 1994 to 1998.

She made her debut in the 1999 comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous, as a supporting actress.

She made guest appearances on television and appeared in small-scale films in Los Angeles and played "mean girl" in small-scale films.

She appeared in Steven Spielberg's 2002 biopic Catch Me If You Can, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, but she was unemployed for a year afterward.

In the 2005 independent film Junebug, a woman named as a loquacious pregnant woman made her breakthrough. Enchanted, a 2007 film in which Adams played a cheerful princess, was her first major success as a leading lady.

In a string of films including the 2008 drama Doubt, she followed it by portraying nave, hopeful women.

She then appeared in the sports film The Fighter (2010) and the psychological thriller The Master (2012), where she performed her best roles to positive reviews.

Lois Lane was first introduced in the DC Extended Universe in 2013.

In the crime film American Hustle (2013) and Margaret Keane's ephemerizing in the biopic Big Eyes (2014), she received two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for playing a seductive con artist.

In the satirical film Vice (2018), a claud for playing a linguist in the science fiction film Arrival (2016), a self-harming reporter in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018), and Lynne Cheney played a linguist. Adams appeared in Into the Woods in 2012, when she played the Baker's Wife.

She was voted one of the world's 100 Most Influential People by Time in 2014 and included in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list.

She is married to actor and singer Darren Le Gallo, with whom she has a child.

Early life

Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy, the daughter of American parents Kathryn and Richard Adams, when her father was stationed with the US Army at the Caserma Ederle military complex. She has four brothers and two sisters. When she went from one army base to another, she and her family settled in Castle Rock, Colorado, when she was eight years old. After leaving the army, her father performed professionally in nightclubs and restaurants. Adams recalled going to her father's shows and enjoying Shirley Temples at the bar as one of her fondest childhood memories. The family was poor; they camped and hiked together, and they put on amateur skits that were usually written by her father and occasionally by her mother. Adams was enthusiastic about the performances and took the lead.

Adams was raised as a Mormon until her parents divorced in 1985 and left the church. She did not have strong religious convictions, but she has expressed admiration for her teaching her love and compassion. Her father moved to Arizona and remarried after the breakup, but the children stayed with their mother. Her mother, a semi-professional bodybuilder, would bring the children with her to the gym when she was at school. Adams likened her early years with her siblings to Lord of the Flies. She has described herself as a "scrappy, tough girl" who has clashed with other children.

Adams attended Douglas County High School. She was not academically inclined, but she was keen on the performing arts and served in the school choir. She competed in track and gymnastics, harbored aspirations of becoming a ballerina, and studied as an apprentice at the local David Taylor Dance Company. She loathed high school and stayed mainly to herself. She and her mother moved to Atlanta after graduating. She did not go to college, to her parents' annoyance, and later regretted not enrolling in higher education. Adams realized she wasn't meant to be a professional ballerina at age 18, and discovered musical theater more to her liking. Annie's first stage appearance was in a community theater performance, which she did on a volunteer basis. She worked as a greeter at a Gap store to support herself. She served as a Hooters waitress, but she left the job after saving enough money to buy a used car.

Personal life

Adams first met actor and painter Darren Le Gallo at an acting class in 2001 and began dating a year later while working on a short film called Pennies. They became engaged in 2008 and Aviana gave birth to their daughter in 2010. The couple married in a private ceremony at a ranch near Santa Barbara, California, seven years since their wedding. Adams said in 2016 that she honors Le Gallo's numerous sacrifices as the family's primary caregiver. They are residents of Beverly Hills, California. She has referred to her family as "pretty low-key" and has said that her routine includes going to work, taking her daughter to the park, and having weekly date nights with her husband.

Adams dismisses celebrity and claims that the more people know about me, the less likely they'll believe me and my characters." She receives no gossip or tabloid interest, and she continues to maintain a healthy work-life balance. She continues to avoid being influenced by her celebrity, fearing that doing so would compromise her ability to perform roles with integrity. Adams has explored how poverty and a lack of confidence from a young age have affected her, as well as how motherhood has made her calmer. When feeling ill at work, she often breaks into song. She has joined other women in the film industry in advocating equal pay for women in the industry, but she finds that actresses are not often asked to address the gender wage divide, and that the concerns should instead be directed to producers.

Adams, who had struggled in her early days in film, works closely with underprivileged students at New York City's Ghetto Film School. Variety praised her for her 2010 appearances with them. She supports the Trevor Project, a non-profit group that supports LGBT teens, and appeared on "Trevor Live" in 2011. She published The Beauty Book for Brain Cancer in 2013 to help raise funds for brain cancer charities Snog and Headrush. She raised funds for sexually abused children the following year at the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica. Adams co-founded the initiative #SaveWithStories in 2020 to raise awareness of children's education amid school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Adams serves as an ambassador for The RightWay Foundation, a charity that provides employment and mental health care to former foster children.

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Career

In a 1994 dinner theater performance of A Chorus Line in Boulder, Colorado, Adams began her professional career as a dancer. Her job required her to wait on tables before being escorted on stage to perform. She loved singing and dancing but got into trouble when a fellow dancer, who she considered a friend, made incorrect allegations against her to the director. "I never knew what the lies were," Adams said. I only knew I was constantly called in and told of my lack of professionalism." She left the job but went on to appear in the dinner theater at the Heritage Square Music Hall and Country Dinner Playhouse in Denver. She was spotted by Michael Brindisi, president and artistic director of the Minneapolis-based Chanhassen Dinner Theatre in 1995, who offered her a career there. Adams then moved to Chanhassen, Minnesota, where she appeared in the theater for the next three years. She loved the job's "security and stability" and has claimed that she learned a great deal from it. Despite this, the demanding job took its toll on her: "I had a lot of recurring injuries, pulled muscle muscles in my groin, my adductor, and abductor." "My body was wearing out."

Adams appeared in her first film, a black-and-white short film titled The Chromium Hook, during her time in Chanhassen. Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, and Kirstie Alley appeared at local auditions for the Hollywood film Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), a satire on beauty pageants starring Kirsten Dunst, Ellen Barkin, and Kirstie Alley, shortly after. She was off work recovering a pulled muscle. Adams was cast in the role of a devoted cheerleader. She found that her character was very different from her own and was worried about how people would perceive her. Adams was shot locally, which gave her the opportunity to film for her part while also performing Brigadoon on stage. Adams decided to pursue a film career after Alley's encouragement in January 1999, and she moved to Los Angeles. She recalled the first time in Chanhassen as "dark" and "bleak," and she longed for her life in Chanhassen.

Adams auditioned for whatever role she could have chosen in Los Angeles, but she was mostly given the role of "the bitchy girl." Kathryn Merteuil, who played Sarah Michelle Gellar in the film, appeared in a week after her relocation in the Fox television series Manchester Prep, a spin-off of the film Cruel Intentions, came within a week of her first assignment. The series was cancelled due to several script revisions and two plant shutdowns. Adams later said that the primary reason for the demise was a turbulent scene in which her character encourages a girl to masturbate on a horse. The three filmed episodes were re-edited and published later in 2000 as the direct-to-video film Cruel Intentions 2. Despite a skepticism at The A.V.'s Nathan Rabin, despite a skepticism of the event. Adams plays her "alpha-bitch" in the Club's story, with a slew of humour lacking from Sarah Michelle Gellar's sterile portrayal of the character, according to the club.

In Psycho Beach Party (1999), a horror parody of a beach party and slasher films, Adams next had a supporting role as the teen nemesis of a movie star (played by Kimberly Davies). Ann-Margret, a French actress, appeared on the part. Adams appeared in several television shows, including That '70s Show, Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, and The West Wing, from 2000 to 2002.

Adams became the first high-profile actress in Steven Spielberg's comedy-drama Catch Me If You Can, after brief appearances in three small-scale films of 2002, including The Slaughter Rule, Pumpkin, and Serving Sara. Brenda Strong, a nurse with whom Frank Abagnale Jr. (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) fell in love, was a nurse with whom she fell in love. The film boosted her confidence. Despite the film's success and laud for her "warm presence" from Variety critic Todd McCarthy, it didn't do much to advance her career. She had been unemployed for a year after its debut, causing her to almost stop doing film acting. Adams decided not to enroll in acting lessons, realizing that she had "a lot to learn and a lot of self-growth to work through." Her career prospects seem to have improved a year ago when she was offered a lucrative role as a regular in the CBS television drama Dr. Vegas, but she was forced to leave after a few episodes. She appeared in film only in a minor role in Fred Savage's 2004 film The Last Run (2004).

After finishing work on the independent comedy-drama Junebug, which had a production budget of less than $1 million, disillusioned by her firing from Dr. Vegas, Adams, aged 30, consider quitting acting altogether. The film, directed by Phil Morrison, featured Ashley Johnsten, a perky and talkative pregnant woman. Morrison was captivated by Adams' ability to not question her character's inherently positive motives. She connected with Johnsten's faith in God and spent time with Morrison in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where the film is shot, attending mass. She referred to the film as "the summer I grew into myself" and after dyeing her hair red for the role, she decided not to go back to her natural blonde color. Adams received a special jury award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, where he premiered Junebug. Adams had produced "one of the most delicately funny and touching performances it's ever been my pleasure to review," according to Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph. Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post opined that her "intuitive role" reflected the film's "deeply humanistic heart. Adams received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress and Critics' Choice Award for her appearance, as well as an Academy Award nomination in the same category.

Adams appeared in two critically panned films, the wedding date starring Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney, and the ensemble coming-of-age film Standing Still, which were released later in 2005. She appeared on the cast of The Office for a recurring role in three episodes last year. Will Ferrell's character was explored in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), a sports comedy from Adam McKay, a role whose critic Peter Travers described as "quite a comeback" from her role in Junebug. She appeared in The Exile, starring Zach Braff and Amanda Peet, on a small scale.

Adams starred in Walt Disney Pictures' animated comedy film Underdog (2006), portraying members of the Disney Princess franchise. Patrick Dempsey and James Marsden co-starred as her romantic passions. She was one of 250 actresses auditioned for the leading role in the city, but director Kevin Lima stayed on Adams due to her dedication to the role and her ability to be nonjudgmental about Giselle's character. She had to wear a ball gown for the film because it was lighter than normal, and she had to shed several times under its weight. "Reality Love's Kiss," "Happy Working Song," and "That's How You Know" were three songs for the film's soundtrack. Adams was praised by reviewer Roger Ebert for her "intuitable love" in a role that "completely depends on effortless lovability," and Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe praised her for "demonstrating [ing] a true performer's ingenuity for comedic timing and physical eloquence." Todd McCarthy regarded it as her breakthrough role and likened her aspiration to Julie Andrews'. Enchanted was a commercial success, grossing over $340 million globally, and Adams was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

Adams played Bonnie Bach, Congressman Charlie Wilson's assistant in Mike Nichols' political comedy-drama War (2007), starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman following Enchanted's success. Adams was lauded for being "fully savvy" in his role, according to Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter, although The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw was dissatisfied to see her talent wasted in a position he deemed to be insignificant.

Sunshine Cleaning, a comedy-drama starring Adams and Emily Blunt), was released at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in the United States. Adams was attracted by the prospect of being someone who constantly strives to improve herself. Adams, according to Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, is "magical." "She gives us a portrait of raging desire underneath a veneer of surface diffidence." Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, a 1939 screwball comedy starring Frances McDormand, Adams plays an aspiring American actress in London who meets Miss Pettigrew, a middle-aged governess. Stephen Holden of The New York Times referred to her role in Enchanted by saying that the "screen magic" she portrays in such endearing roles "hasn't been this intense since Jean Arthur's heyday.

Adams performed in Doubt, an adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's play of the same name. The film tells the tale of a Catholic school principal (played by Meryl Stymour Hoffman) who accuses a priest of pedophilia; she played an innocent nun embroiled in the conflict. Shanley initially approached Natalie Portman for the role, but Adams was given the role after she discovered her innocent, yet mature personality similar to Ingrid Bergman's. She began describing her character's ability to attract the best in people and referred to her involvement with St. Peter and Hoffman as a "master class" in acting. Adams "sparks with sadness," Amy Biancolli of the Houston Chronicle said, and Ann Hornaday believes she "exudes just the right wide-eyed innocence." She was nominated for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Adams' three 2008 launches were based on the ingénue—innocent women with a cheery temperament, as with Junebug and Enchanted. When she was asked about being typecast in such roles, she said she responds to characters who are joyful and full of hope. Despite certain similarities in their appearance, these characters were vastly different from one another; she wrote, "Naveté is not stupidity, not stupidity," she said; "intelligent people are often very complicated."

Adams appeared as the aviator Amelia Earhart in the 2009 fantasy adventure film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, starring Ben Stiller. It was the first motion picture to film inside the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Adams was able to show her acting skills in the role, according to director Shawn Levy; it was the first time she was allowed to play a confident character on film. Adams' performance was lauded despite mixed reviews. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune wrote that Terming her "a sparkling screen presence" as Amy Adams "significantly improves whenever Amy Adams appears." Julie Powell, Julia Child's memoir Mastering the Art of French Cooking, starred Adams in the same year as an unhappy government secretary who decides to blog about the recipes in Julia Child's book Mastering the Art of French Cooking; Meryl Stitchell portrays Child. To prepare for the role, she registered at the Institute of Culinary Education. The film, according to Carrie Rickey of The Philadelphia Inquirer, was "as delectable as French cuisine" and Adams was "at her most winsome." Both Nights at the Museum and Julie & Julia were commercial successes, with the former grossing over $400 million.

Adams, a leading role in the romantic comedy Leap Year (2010), which critic Richard Roeper said was saved from "truly bad" by Adams' presence. The boxing drama, The Fighter, was much better received at her next release of the year. The film, directed by David O. Russell, tells the tale of Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund (played by Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, respectively); Melissa Leo played Ward's mother and Charlene Fleming played Ward's brash aunt, Charlene Fleming. Russell played Adams against type to rid her of her girl-next-door appearance, characterizationizing her as a "tough, sexy bitch." Russell's insistence on discovering her character's silence made the role a dramatic departure for her, and she was beaten by Russell's insistence on finding her character's strength in silence. Sheila Kelley's trainer took her to a new dance class to discover her character's eroticism. Adams was described as "as tough, tender, insightful, and amusing" in Enchanted by Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal, as she was ethereal and delightful in Enchanted.

What an actress, and what range!"

She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe, and BAFTA awards; she lost the former two to Leo; she was named for Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe, and BAFTA. She expressed an interest in playing more prominent roles in the future.

Adams and Jason Segel appeared in live-action roles in the Disney musical The Muppets (2011) starring the eponymous puppets. For the film's soundtrack, she performed seven songs. According to Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum, the role marked her return to her "comedian-sweetheart" persona. As part of the Shakespeare in the Park festival at the open-air Delacorte Theater, Adams appeared in the Baker's Wife revival by Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods. It was her first theater appearance in 13 years and her first theater appearance in New York. Despite being overwhelmed and manipulated by the project, she committed to a month-long production to "take on a challenge that seemed insurmountable." She was booked with a private singing coach, but her film schedule allowed her to only spend four weeks in rehearsal. Adam's "lucidly spoken and sung appearance," the New York Times' theater critic, praised Adams' "intellibly articulated and sung appearance," but critic Peter Brantley chastised her for her role's "lack of "the nervy, dissatisfied restlessness" of her character.

Adams played another "fierce woman" in Paul Thomas Anderson's psychological thriller The Master (2012). Peggy Dodd, the ruthless and manipulative wife of a cult leader of a cult, was played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. It was her third and final collaboration with Hoffman, whom she adored greatly before his death two years later. The company depicted in the film was thought to be based on Scientology by journalists; Adams found the comparison to be inaccurate but grateful for the film's appreciation. Although she was not a method actress, she believed the dramatic role had kept her on alert in her personal life. Adams' "pertness has never seemed so malevolent," the critic said in a letter to Lady Macbeth, and The Irish Times praised her for playing the part of "discrete danger." The Guardian's John Patterson remarked that a scene in which her character berates her husband while fervently masturbating him was one of the film's most memorable scenes. Adams received Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA awards for her supporting role once more.

Clint Eastwood's sports drama Trouble with the Curve, in which she played the estranged daughter of a baseball scout (Eastwood), was Adams' second film debut of 2012. She adored Eastwood's "warm and generous" demeanor and was delighted with the partnership. She's prepared for the role by learning to catch, pitch, and swing from a baseball coach. The film received mixed reviews, but Roger Ebert noticed how Adams had made a standard role seem important. She appeared in On the Road, an ensemble drama based on Jack Kerouac's book of the same name, she appeared in the briefing of a heroin addict.

After losing out on Lois Lane in two previous films about Superman, Adams won a role in Zack Snyder's 2013 film Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill as the titular superhero. She played Lane with a mixture of toughness and vulnerability, but Peter Bradshaw found the character "sketchily imagined" and criticized the actress's lack of chemistry with Cavill. The film made a record-breaking box-office hit after grossing over $660 million. Adams will be next in Her, a writer-director Spike Jonze's film about a lonely man (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with an artificial intelligence (voiced by Scarlett Johansson); she played his close friend. The actress had unsuccessfully auditioned for Jonze's 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are and was cast in Her, after Jonze looked back at those tapes. She was attracted by the prospect of presenting a platonic male-female couple, which she believed was unusual in film.

Adams co-starred Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, and Jennifer Lawrence in the ensemble black comedy tragedy American Hustle, bringing together David O. Russell. The film, which was inspired by the 1970s Abscam scandal, portrayed her as a seductive con artist, but she did it so that "everything seemed justified and it didn't seem she was just a sexpath." She worked closely with Bale to create their characters and made off-screen recommendations to Russell, including for a scene in which her lover's wife aggressively kissed on her lips (played by Lawrence). Adams, who later revealed that Russell had been relentless on her and made her cry often, expressed apprehension for her; she said she was afraid of taking such traumatic information home to her daughter. Adams "goes deeper here than she's ever been allowed to," Manohla Dargis of The New York Times said, adding that she had successfully "turn[ed] an unpredictable character into a thrillingly thrilling one." She received her fifth Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical, her fifth in the Best Actress category, and her first in the Best Actress category. Critics also rated Her and American Hustle as one of the best films of 2013, and both were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Adams appeared in Big Eyes (2014), a drama about the struggling artist Margaret Keane whose paintings of "big-eyed waifs" were plagiarized by her husband Walter Keane, who starred in the poorly received drama Lullaby. When she first got the role, she declined to avoid portraying another na've woman. Adams found solace in her daughter's birth in 2010, but she had to rely on real-life experiences in which she had not stood up for herself. In preparation, she painted and investigated Keane's work. Keane loved Adams' portrayal of her, and Mark Kermode of The Observer characterized her appearance as a "potent blend of intuitive fire and sensitive vulnerability." She was nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for the second time in a row, and she was nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical by the British Academy.

Adams had three film debuts in 2016. Lois Lane appeared in Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, the second installment in the DC Extended Universe after Man of Steel. Despite a poor critical reception for favoring visual effects over a cohesive story, the film's grossest opening to date took in over $870 million. Adams' next two books, the science fiction drama Arrival and the psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals, earned critical acclaim. Nocturnal Animals by Austin Wright tells the tale of an unmarried art dealer Susan (Adams), who is traumatized when reading a violent book written by her ex-husband (played by Jake Gyllenhaal). Susan found no similarity between herself and "poised" and "aloof" Susan, and she based the character's behavior on Ford's. Stephanie Zacharek of Time magazine found the film visually appealing yet thematically poor, but Adams and Gyllenhaal were praised for making their characters' pain seem real.

The arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve and based on Ted Chiang's short story "Story of Your Life," is one of Adams' most popular films of his career. It focuses on Louise Banks (Adams), a linguist who has odd visions while being recruited by the US government to translate the language of extraterrestrials. Adams was attracted to the prospect of playing an intellectual female lead and was linked to the film's theme of unity and compassion. In preparation for the role, she watched documentaries on linguistics. Adams' performance, according to Christopher Orr of The Atlantic, was "mesmerizingly clear, by turns uplifting and sad." Kenneth Turan wrote for the Los Angeles Times and claimed that her "finely calibrated performance" was "a showcase for her ability to clearly and effectively blend intelligence, empathy, and reserve." Arrival was a commercial success, grossing over $200 million against a $47 million production budget, and Adams received Golden Globe and BAFTA accolades for Best Actress. Several journalists expressed disappointment with her lack of an Oscar nomination for the film. She appeared in Justice League (2017), an ensemble film about the titular superheroes. Adams' talents had been wasted in a thankless supporting role, according to Tim Grierson of Screen International, who brought "emotional resonance" to the film.

Adams, a writer from Gillian Flynn's thriller book of the same name, returned to television in 2018. Camille Preaker, a self-harming journalist who returns to her hometown to cover the assassination of two teenage girls, appeared as an executive producer and appeared as an executive producer. Adams gained weight for the role, and she underwent three hours of prosthetic makeup to create her character's scarred body on days of filming. By proxy, she learned about self-mutilation and researched Munchausen syndrome's psychological condition. She was unable to separate herself from the dysfunctional role and suffered with insomnia. The series and Adams' performance received critical acclaim; James Poniewozik of The New York Times praised Preaker's nuanced portrayal of the character, as well as Adams' "transfixing" appearance. Daniel D'Addario of Variety found her to be "operating at the peak of her abilities" and adding that "her voice has slowed to a drawl, and the suspicion of mistrust has heightened," she said.

Christian Bale and Adams teamed up for the third time in Adam McKay's political comedy, in which they portrayed Dick Cheney, the US's vice president, and Lynne Powell. Lynne's books were in preparation; despite disagreeing with her political convictions, she approached the role with admiration and discovered a connection with her character's fortitude. Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair compared Adams' role in The Master to Adams' role in The Master; he lauded "her usual rigor" but criticised the "lazy rubber-stamp of a man's notion of a woman next to power." IndieWire founder Eric Kohn was more appreciative of her for "embodying an underwritten Lady Macbeth with ferocious enthusiasm." Adams received Golden Globe nominations for her appearances in both Sharp Objects and Vice; for the former, she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series; and for the latter, she received her sixth Oscar and seventh BAFTA nomination.

Adams' debut in the new decade with the drama Hillbilly Elegy (2020), based on J. D. Vance's book of the same name. Critical reviewers skepticism; a Rolling Stone researcher said that, amid Adams' reliable work, she was trapped in a poorly written film. Multiple outlets have chastised the film for not giving her characters enough scenes to develop. Despite all this, she was nominated for the Screen Actor Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. In Joe Wright's thriller The Woman in the Window, based on the book of the same name, Adams next appeared as an agoraphobic murder witness. The film was delayed several times due to poor test screenings and then, due to the COVID-19 pandemic; it was eventually released on Netflix in 2021. In Dear Evan Hansen, a film version of the Broadway musical of the same name, Adams took on the role of a grieving mother. Both The Woman in the Window and Dear Evan Hansen were poorly received.

Adams appeared in West End's in 2022, her first appearance in the Duke of York's Theatre in a revival of The Glass Menagerie. Amanda, a matriarch trying to raise her children, was the subject of her own mother's ferocious and tenacious personality. Mixed reviews were given to the show. Adams' performance, according to Dominic Cavendish of The Daily Telegraph, was "clear, simple, believable, and in a subtle way, but Evening Standard's Nick Curtis found it "muted and unconvincing."

Adams will reprise her role as Giselle in the Disney+ sequel to Enchanted, titled Disenchanted. Adams will also work under her own business, Bond Group Entertainment (which she formed with her manager Stacy O'Neil in 2019). Several literary adaptations are in the works, including a film version of Adams' satirical book Nightbitch.

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