[07] 2004 – April 19 – Mean Girls Premiere (LA)
[01] 2004 – April 23 – Mean Girls Premiere (NYC)
[02] 2005 – May 24 – Lords of Dogtown Premiere (LA)
[05] 2006 – February 23 – Big Love Premiere (LA)
[01] 2006 – March 21 – Thief Premiere (LA)
[42] 2007 – February 06 – Starter 10 Premiere (Los Angeles)
[11] 2007 – December 10 – Charlie Wilson’s War Premiere (Los Angeles)
[02] 2008 – July 4 – Mamma Mia! Photo Call (Stockholm)
[05] 2008 – July 12 – Hard C School Dance ‘08

‘Big Love’ Actress Gushes Over Movie Co-Stars
‘It’s just so RIDICULOUS.’
Allentown native Amanda Seyfried: ‘Mamma’s’ girl

[13] June 28 – Mamma Mia! Press Conference

[24] June 28 – Mamma Mia! Photo Call (Athens)

[241] 2.04 – Rock and a Hard Place | [275] 2.05 – Vision Thing

Star’s Song and Dance

Amanda Seyfried stars alongside screen icons Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia! but the up-and-coming actress was probably the most comfortable person on set.

While Streep, Brosnan and co-star Colin Firth have admitted to being terrified by the prospect of dancing and singing ABBA songs, the 22-year-old said she was born to do it.

Seyfried studied singing for six years and was considering a career as a classical singer before she got her first acting role on US soap All My Children.

“It’s just something I was born to do,” Seyfried said.

“I know that sounds lame, but for as long as I can remember I was just performing. I started acting when I was 15, and singing when I was 11, and dancing in high school.

“It’s not really unbelievable to see (myself doing all three) because it’s always been in me anyway, whereas with Pierce, he never expected to see himself singing and dancing.”

Seyfried plays bride-to-be Sophie, in the movie adaptation of the hugely successful stage show based on the songs of ABBA.    Director Phyllida Lloyd said she knew she had found the perfect actor to play Sophie when Seyfried auditioned.

“Amanda has that completely winning, radiant warmth and an almost childlike youthfulness,” she said.

“She walked in and, from the first note she sang, you could feel everybody in the room go – this is it.”

Seyfried said she was thrilled to be cast alongside Brosnan and Firth, but she was most excited to work with Streep, who plays her mother in the film.

“I knew my life would change, or part of me would change, because I would get to work with her,” Seyfried said.

“When I heard that she signed on to play Donna, I screamed and jumped up and down, and was like, wow, that’s amazing.

“Now it’s completely put me on another level. People respect me more now because I’ve worked with her.”

Seyfried is best known for playing one of the “Plastics” in the 2004 movie Mean Girls, which also starred Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams.

The former model hasn’t kept in touch with Lohan, and is determined not to play out her career in the tabloids.

“I haven’t really dealt with fame very much,” she said.

“After this movie comes out I know I’ll have to deal with it to a certain extent, but there is a way – and I know people don’t agree with me – but there is a way to control it a little bit.

“Fame is not real, it’s not your real life, it’s not who you are.

“A lot of people think the attention and the money makes them who they are, but that’s not true.”

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Meryl recently sat down with Inquirer.net and had some lovely things to say about Amanda.

Of Amanda Seyfried, who plays her bride-to-be daughter Sophie, the mother of three girls enthused, “From the moment Amanda opened her mouth in the first reading, I felt like she was one of my daughters. She shares many traits with my daughters. She is strong. She has a quiet voice but she has a stubborn streak. The word that keeps coming up about her is delicious. That’s the way I feel about my girls. It’s very easy to feel that Amanda was too young to get married, just like the way I feel about my girls.”

Amanda and Meryl Streep  will be on The View on July 18th  to promote Mamma Mia!  We will remind you of this next week  when it’s closer

The Mamma Mia! soundtrack has been released today. Amanda is featured on the following tracks:

• Honey, Honey (Amanda, Ashley Lilley and Rachel McDowall)
• Our Last Summer (Amanda, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, and Meryl Streep)
• Lay All Your Love on Me (Amanda and Dominic Cooper)
• Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (Amanda, Ashley Lilley and Rachel McDowall)
• The Name of the Game (Amanda and Stellan Skarsgard)
• Voulez-Vous (The Mamma Mia! Cast)
• Slipping Through My Fingers (Amanda and Meryl Streep)
• I Have a Dream (Amanda)
• Thank You for the Music (Amanda) – See the below note regarding this track.

“Thank You for the Music” appears on the album when you download it from iTunes, but does not show on the Amazon tracklist so we aren’t sure if its included when you purchase the CD through Amazon or another store. Among other places you can purchase the soundtrack off of Amazon.com and iTunes.

EDIT: Thanks to Alex for confirming that “Thank You for the Music” does indeed appear on the soundtrack if you purchase the CD from a store (or Amazon.com). It’s a hidden track and will play fifteen seconds after the last listed track on the CD.

I stumbled upon some gorgeous scans of Amanda from Vogue Italia’s April issue.

[07] Vogue Italia (April 2008)

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[14] July 3 – Mamma Mia! Photo Call (Berlin) (HQ)

[06] July 4 – Mamma Mia! Premiere (Stockholm)

[04] July 4 – Mamma Mia! Photo Call (Stockholm)

[01] Elle (July 2008)

[01] Vanity Fair (July 2008)

[03] You (June 2008)

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