Anna Kendrick
Anna Kendrick was born in Portland, Oregon, United States on August 9th, 1985 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 38, Anna Kendrick biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Anna Cooke Kendrick (born August 9, 1985) is an American actress and singer.
She began acting in theatre productions as a child actor.
In the 1998 Broadway musical High Society, she appeared for the first time.
She made her film debut in the musical comedy Camp (2003). Kendrick came to fame in 2008-2012 as Jessica Stanley, a supporting cast member of The Twilight Saga.
The actress and actress of Up in the Air, Jason Reitman's comedy-drama film Up in the Air, received praise from critics and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Beca Mitchell, the actress who played Beca Mitchell in the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017), received even more fame for her role. Kendrick appeared in the comedy-drama End of Watch (2012), the crime-drama End of Watch (2012), the musical-fantasy Into the Woods (2014), the adult comedy Trolls (2016), and the mystery-thriller comedy A Simple Favor (2018).
In 2016, Kendrick wrote Scrappy Little Nobody, a memoir.
Early life
Kendrick was born in Portland, Maine, on August 9, 1985, the niece of accountant Janice (née Cooke) and history teacher William Kendrick. Her father has also worked in finance. She is of English, Irish, and Scottish descent. She has an older brother who is a comedian, as well as a character in the drama film Looking for an Echo (2000). She attended Deering High School.
Personal life
Kendrick lives in Los Angeles. She has a soprano voice.
After meeting while filming Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, she began dating English filmmaker Edgar Wright in 2009. In March 2013, the two bands broke up. After meeting whilst filming Drinking Buddies, she began dating English cinematographer Ben Richardson in February 2014. That friendship has since been strained.
In late 2020 or early 2021, Kendrick first began dating actress Bill Hader. They had ended their relationship by June 2022.
She has claimed that her experience in an emotionally traumatic family background inspired her appearance in Alice, Darling.
Career
Kendrick began her career as an infant, auditioning for theater performances in New York City. When she was 12, she appeared in the 1998 Broadway musical High Society as a supporting actress. At the Drama Desk Awards and Tony Awards, her appearance earned her a Theater World Award and nominations for Featured Actress in a Musical. She continued to perform in Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music, which was staged in 2003 in New York City.
She made her film debut in Camp, which was in the musical genre. She received a nomination for Best Debut Performance for her nerdy Fritzi Wagner's career as a nerd. She was an innovative high school debater in Rocket Science (2007), for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female.
Kendrick came to fame in 2008 with the fantasy romance Twilight, a major box-office hit based on Stephenie Meyer's book of the same name; in 2008, Kendrick played Jessica Stanley, a friend of protagonist Bella Swan. She appeared in The Marc Pease Experience, her first leading role in the crime thriller Elsewhere, in 2009, and in Twilight's sequel, New Moon, she reprised her Jessica Stanley reign.
She appeared in director Jason Reitman's Up in the Air (2009), as George Clooney. Critics lauded her performance as an optimistic college graduate, saying it's "funny and touching" and that she "grabs every scene she's in" and that she "grabs every scene she's in." It included nominations for numerous Best Supporting Actress awards, including the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and BAFTA Awards.
In 2010, Kendrick portrayed Jessica Stanley in the Twilight saga's third installment, Eclipse. She appeared in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World later this year as the sister of the title character. The film did not do well at the box office, but it has since become a cult classic. In 2011, she appeared in the critically acclaimed comedy-drama 50/50 as an inexperienced therapist to a cancer patient played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Jessica Stanley made her final appearance in Twilight's fourth installment, Breaking Dawn, Part 1 (2011), later this year.
Since 2010, Kendrick has been a member of the Actors' Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Kendrick appeared in What to Expect When You're Expecting, a closely based pregnancy primer of the same name. She lent her voice to the stop-motion animated film ParaNorman, starred in the commercially lucrative crime drama End of Watch, and appeared in Robert Redford's political drama The Company You Keep.
Pitch Perfect (2012), Kendrick's most popular film of 2012, was loosely based on the non-fiction book Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory. Kendrick played Beca Mitchell, a spirited college freshman who joins a cappella group named the Barden Bellas and discovers that her more modern approach to music contradicts the organization's traditional approach to music. Kendrick's role as a major commercial success, garnering mostly critical feedback from critics, who called the film "splendid," adding that she "hits just the right note between pithy and chummy."
Kendrick appeared in the romantic comedy-drama Drinking Buddies, which received mostly positive feedback from critics, as well as the popular fantasy film Rapture-Palooza.
Kendrick appeared in three films at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014. She appeared in the comedy-drama Happy Christmas and the horror comedy The Voices, which received generally positive critiques from critics, as well as a supporting role in Life After Beth. Both Merry Christmas and Life After Beth's 2014 debut, limited editions of The Voices were released in early 2015, with a limited number of people.
Kendrick was featured in two films at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014. She appeared in The Last Five Years, an off-Broadway musical of the same name. Though Kendrick's role in the film received mixed feedback, she earned widespread critical acclaim for her performance. She appeared in the comedy-drama Cake as a supporting actress. Cake was eventually released in January 2015, but The Last Five Years were limited to publication in February 2015.
Kendrick was next seen playing Cinderella in Disney's Into the Woods (2014), director Rob Marshall's film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical of the same name. Kendrick was one of the cast members of the large ensemble cast. The film was a big commercial success and received mainly critical feedback from critics.
In an episode that aired in April 2015, Kendrick competed in the first season of Lip Sync Battle against John Krasinski, one of the show's executive producers. Emily Blunt, the object of her love to be Krasinski's newlywed wife, appeared on One Direction's "Steal My Girl," in which she jokingly revealed the object of her affection to be Krasinski's newlywed wife. Kendrick stares at pictures of Blunt on a monitor while wearing a t-shirt imprinted with a heart-shaped photograph of her and Blunt together during her appearance. Kendrick appeared on "Booty" by Jennifer Lopez, in which she makes a surprise appearance at the end of the song. "Bye Bye Bye" by NSYNC and "Proud Mary" by Ike & Tina Turner performed "Bye Bye Bye." Kendrick was proclaimed the champion by the audience. Over 1.75 million viewers in the United States watched the episode.
Kendrick appeared in Digging for Fire, the 2015 Sundance Film Festival's premiere, but it was limited to a few people in August of this year. She reprised her role as Beca Mitchell in Pitch Perfect 2. Mitchell's senior year of college as the co-president of the Barden Bellas appeared in a major box office blockbuster and debuted well ahead of the first film's success.
Mr. Kendrick appeared in the action comedy Mr. 'Secret.' Right, which premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and was announced on April 8, 2016. She appeared in The Hollars, a comedy-drama directed by and starring John Krasinski, at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and it was also published in August 2016. She was first seen in the coming-of-age film Get a Job, which received a limited release in March 2016 after being postponed since 2012.
Kendrick also appeared in the commercially lucrative comedy Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates in 2016 and co-starred in the action thriller The Accountant. On November 15, 2016, Kendrick's memoir Scrappy Little Nobody was published.
Kendrick appeared in Table 19, which was published on March 3, 2017. Beca Mitchell, a behaving actress, appeared in Pitch Perfect 3, which was released on December 22, 2017. Stephanie Smothers appeared in A Simple Favor, a mystery-thriller film released in September 2018. Kendrick debuted in a series of Hilton Hotels advertisements in September 2018.
Kendrick co-starred in the satirical crime comedy The Day Shall Come and played the titular character in Disney+'s Christmas comedy Noelle. Kendrick appeared in the Facebook Watch adult animated comedy series Human Discoveries.
Kendrick was also announced in 2019 that he would appear in Unsound as a state trooper with irreversible hearing loss.
In the 2020 sequel Trolls World Tour, Kendrick reprised her role as Poppy. Universal Pictures released the film on April 10 as a digital rental due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She appeared in the Quibi comedy Dummy, for which she also served as executive producer. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series for her appearance. Kendrick appeared in the HBO Max romantic comedy anthology series Love Life in 2020, for which she also served as an executive producer. She appeared in Stowaway, a science-fiction mystery that was released on April 22, 2021, as the lead.