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She played the part as a homage to actress Ann-Margret. [25] ... Battle of the Smithsonian, starring Ben Stiller, featured Adams as the aviator Amelia Earhart.
Amelia is a 2009 biographical film about the aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. The film stars Hilary Swank as Earhart, and co-stars Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Joe Anderson. The film was directed by Mira Nair and based on The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell. [2]
In 2008, Adams played a naive nun in the drama Doubt, opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep, for which she received her second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] She then appeared in the comedy-drama Julie & Julia , co-starring Streep, and played Amelia Earhart in the adventure comedy sequel Night at the Museum ...
Swank portrayed the pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart in the 2009 biopic Amelia, which she also co-executive produced through 2S Films, a production company she established with producer Molly Smith. [29] [30] In preparation for the role, she began a series of flight training lessons in a Cirrus SR22. [31] Swank at the 2013 Life Ball in Vienna ...
Interest in the story of Amelia Earhart, especially with the release of Amelia (2009) led film reviewers to recall the earlier Earhart portrayals. [7] Rosalind Russell had played "an Earhart-esque flier in 1943's Flight for Freedom" and Diane Keaton starred in the 1994 TNT movie Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight. [8]
Beth Gallagher is an American actress who starred in the play To Fall in Love (2017) and the 2023 film adaptation of the same name.She portrayed Amelia Earhart in a stage production and Shelley Duvall in a parody short film.
In 1976, she received her only Emmy Award nomination (for "Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress") for playing pioneer aviator, Neta Snook, in the three-hour-long, made-for-TV movie Amelia Earhart, broadcast on October 15, 1976, on NBC-TV.
The actress played Lois Lane in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (2016). ... Adams portrayed Amelia Earhart in "Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian" (2009).