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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Anna Faris: Stonette of the Year

Anna Faris: Stonette of the Year

Sexy, Hot Actress Anna Faris: High Times 2007 - Stonette of the Year


Anna Kay Faris[1] (play /ˈɑːnə ˈfærɨs/; born November 29, 1976)[1] is an American actress, comedian and singer. She is known for her starring role in the Scary Movie film series, as well as roles in Lost in Translation, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The House Bunny.

Her first film role came shortly after college, in the independent production Lovers Lane (1999), in which she played an ill-fated cheerleader. Her breakout role came the following year in the horror-film parody Scary Movie (2000). She gained further popularity after she received the role of the recurring character Erica, the mother whose twin babies are adopted by Chandler and Monica Bing, in the final season of the American sitcom Friends. She said she was "cast last-minute" in the film Lost in Translation (2003), in which she played an actress promoting an action movie.[8] She went on to supporting roles in films including Brokeback Mountain and My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), and then starred in 2007's Smiley Face, in a role that won her "Stoner of the Year" at High Times magazine's Stony Awards, in Los Angeles, on October 13, 2007.[9]

In 2008, she produced and starred in The House Bunny, about a retired Playboy bunny.[4] In the summer 2007 season of HBO's Entourage, Faris guest-starred as herself in three episodes. She also made an appearance as herself in a video on eatdrinkordie.com with Internet wine guru Gary Vaynerchuk. She co-starred in a voiceover role in the 2009 animated film Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and provided the voice of the computer-animated chipmunk Jeanette in the live-action Alvin and the Chipmunks features Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) and Chipwrecked (2011). She starred in and served as executive producer of the 2011 romantic comedy What's Your Number?, and has had starring or co-starring roles in several comedies.
In the media

Faris has appeared on the covers of Raygun, Playboy[10], Self[11], Cosmopolitan[12] and other magazines. She was listed as No. 57, #39, and No. 42 in Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" in 2004, 2009, and 2010 respectively. In 2009, she was ranked No. 60 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World", and ranked No. 96 in 2010. Ask Men featured her as No. 78 on "100 Most Desirable Women in the World" in 2009.

In 2010, Cosmopolitan magazine named her "the Cosmo’s Fun Fearless Female of the Year" – stating that “She makes us laugh – and cringe – by pushing the limits of comedy in a way no other actress can”.[13]

Tad Friend described her in The New Yorker as "Hollywood's most original comic actress". -Wikipedia