Amanda Bynes Through the Years
Amanda Bynes has had a roller coaster ride in Hollywood since she first rose to fame as a cast member on Nickelodeon’s All That. She’s made a name for herself in the film industry with roles in What a Girl Wants and Easy A, but she’s also had many ups and downs in her personal life. Look back at her evolution from child actress to troubled starlet to fashion school student and beyond in the photo gallery below.
Amanda Bynes has had a roller coaster ride in Hollywood since she first rose to fame as a cast member on Nickelodeon's All That. In honor of her return to Twitter, look back at her evolution from child actress to troubled starlet to fashion school student in the photo gallery below.
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"When I was 7, I started taking a comedy class for kids at the Comedy Store in Hollywood," Amanda Bynes told the Los Angeles Times. She was discovered two years later while taking classes at the Laugh Factory. In 1996, Bynes joined the cast of Nickelodeon's sketch comedy series All That.
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The All That scene stealer got her own series, The Amanda Show, in 1999. Bynes won the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award for Favorite TV Actress three years in a row. During that time, Bynes dated her costar (and future Saturday Night Live cast member) Taran Killam.
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The actress made her feature film debut in 2002's Big Fat Liar, costarring Frankie Muniz. The movie, also starring Paul Giamatti and Sandra Oh, earned an impressive $48 million domestically.
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From 2002 to 2006, Bynes played Jennie Garth's teenage sister on the WB sitcom. What I Like About You became the top-rated show in its time slot among women in the 18-to-34 age group. After her breakup with Taran Killam, Bynes began dating costar Nick Zano, who "helped me get back to where I was," the actress later told CosmoGirl! magazine.
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Bynes -- who's won six Nickeloden Kids' Choice Awards -- posed with Lindsay Lohan in April 2004. Years later, the redheaded star would criticize Bynes for not receiving a harsher punishment after being arrested for similar automobile-related offences. "Why did I get put in jail and a Nickelodeon star has had no punishments so far?" Lohan asked via Twitter.
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In the 2006 movie, Bynes' character dressed up as a boy so she could play soccer. "I enjoy doing things that are scary or things that some girls might not like because it won't let them look gorgeous," the actress told CosmoGirl! magazine. "Every day they'd pin my hair back and I'd have no makeup. That's when you start relying more on your sense of humor." She's the Man, costarring Channing Tatum, grossed more than $57 million worldwide.
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Bynes played sheltered teen Penny Lou Pingleton in the 2007 remake of the '80s movie musical. The film, costarring Allison Janney, Zac Efron, Queen Latifah, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brittany Snow and Nikki Blonsky, grossed more than $118 million. Later that year, Bynes created a clothing line for Steve & Barry's, called Dear by Amanda Bynes.
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In 2008, the actress began dating Hills reality star Doug Reinhardt. "Most guys I've dated started as friends," she later told Maxim. "Treat me like a friend and maybe you can become a boyfriend." By year's end, a source told Us Weekly Bynes dumped Reinhardt for exploiting her celebrity status. Reinhardt fired back, claiming the actress "wouldn't even let me have a guys' night out without flipping out on me."
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The actress shed her clothes -- and her inhibitions -- when she appeared on the February 2010 cover of Maxim. "Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now," she told the magazine. "I mean, I'm not gonna do porn, but if it's a Leonardo DiCaprio movie or whatever...Point is, it's time for me to start making my own decisions."
In 2010, Bynes announced her early retirement from show business. "Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem," she tweeted. "I know 24 is a young age to retire, but you heard it here first: I've retired." Weeks later, the star changed her mind, tweeting, "I've unretired." Bynes then posted a link to the trailer for the movie Easy A, in which she played a self-righteous high school student opposite Emma Stone, Penn Badgley and Aly Michalka.
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The actress was arrested on suspicion of DUI in April 2012 and formally charged two months later. She pleaded not guilty and reached out to Barack Obama on Tuesday for help in her case. "I don't drink," Bynes told the U.S. President via Twitter. "Please fire the cop who arrested me. I also don't hit and run. The end."
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The Sydney White actress was officially charged with two misdemeanor counts of hit-and-run in September 2012. The actress was soon seen driving with a suspended license in Hollywood, prompting police officers to pull her over. After a 25-minute conversation, Bynes was allowed to go home.
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In May 2013, at the height of her very public meltdown -- during which she posted several troubling tweets and exhibited increasingly erratic behavior -- Bynes was arrested for allegedly throwing a bong out the window of her New York City high-rise. After undergoing a psych evaluation, she was booked at Midtown Precinct North station for marijuana possession, reckless endangerment, and tampering with evidence.
As Bynes' mental and emotional state deteriorated, she began wearing colored wigs while out and about in New York. This blue one was part of her ensemble for a June 2013 court appearance related to her May 2013 arrest. Within a few weeks after this photo was taken, she had been hospitalized on a 5150 psychiatric hold for setting a fire in a stranger's driveway in her hometown of Thousand Oaks, Calif. She was released from rehab five months later, in December 2013.
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Post-rehab, the What a Girl Wants actress moved back in with her parents and began the task of resuming a normal life. In the weeks after she was released, she was spotted taking walks with her family and hitting the gym. She also enrolled as a student at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise in L.A. On March 21, she shared this picture of herself -- looking happier and healthier than she had in months -- at the school's debut runway show.
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Bynes turned heads with a lacy dress and a platinum hair color during a rare night out on July 23, 2015, hitting up fashion designer Michael Costello and Style PR’s capsule collection launch party in Los Angeles. "Amanda is doing great," an attorney of hers told Us Weekly the previous month. "She appreciates all of the love and support she receives from family, friends, and fans."
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Weeks before turning 30, Bynes returned to Twitter to post a selfie showing off her a shorter haircut, opting for shoulder-length locks and side-swept bangs. “What do you think?” the former child star asked her subscribers.
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The actress sat down for her first interview in four years on June 9, 2017, talking to Hollyscoop’s Diana Madison about her appreciation of Nick Cannon, her adoration of Blac Chyna, her love for spinning and her infamous 2013 Drake tweet. “I was, like, saying, ‘Murder my vagina,’” she recalled. “I was serious, but I was also on drugs, so that was my way of saying like, ‘Let’s do it, man.’ … It just means, like, ‘F–k me, Drake!’”
A source told Us Weekly on February 11, 2018, that the Easy A alum was “excited about the next chapter of her professional life” and getting ready to make a Hollywood comeback. “Amanda will make it a reality,” the insider added. “2018 is going to be Amanda’s triumphant return!”
Two months later, Bynes attended a fundraiser for California politician Pat Harris’ United States Senate bid, after which a source informed Us that the actress is “doing really well and basically just living her life” and is “on track to graduate from fashion school this summer.”
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Bynes revealed her struggle with drugs, depression and more during a November 2018 interview for Paper magazine’s cover story. As for her head turning social media comments over the years, the retired actress told the publication: “I’m really ashamed and embarrassed with the things I said. I can’t turn back time but if I could, I would. And I'm so sorry to whoever I hurt and whoever I lied about because it truly eats away at me. It makes me feel so horrible and sick to my stomach and sad. Everything I worked my whole life to achieve, I kind of ruined it all through Twitter. It’s definitely not Twitter’s fault — it’s my own fault.”
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A source told Us in December 2018 that the former Nickelodeon star was feeling better than she had been in some time. “Amanda is doing so well, and is truly in the best place she has ever been in,” the source told Us at the time. “A component of Amanda’s happiness is her decision to severely limit social media activity.”
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Us confirmed in February 2019 that the She's the Man star was seeking treatment in January after reliving her days in the public eye. "Amanda went to rehab ... after suffering a setback which was the result of feeling pressure of being back in the spotlight after her Paper magazine cover,” an insider told Us. “Amanda is continuing treatment with the assistance of mental health counselors and addiction specialists.”
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The retired actress graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in June 2019. A source told Us at the time that Bynes was given a “day pass” from treatment to attend the ceremony. “Amanda's doctors don't have a timeline as to when she will be released,” the insider noted.
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The former child star joined Instagram on September 10, 2019, debuting pink locks as her first photo. “Hey guys! I’m on Instagram now,” she wrote at the time, while she was living in a sober living facility. “Check me out.”
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After a three-month hiatus, Bynes retuned to Instagram on December 3, 2019. “Geisha girl vibes :love_letter:,” the former Nickelodeon star captioned her comeback snap. The same month, Us confirmed that the actress had left her sober living facility. “Amanda has never been lost or missing,” a source told Us at the time. “She did leave the sober living facility but her parents know where she is. With Amanda, it’s not surprising that she would leave the sober living facility. It’s not uncommon for anyone dealing with sobriety and mental health issues.”
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On February 14, 2020, the Easy A actress announced her engagement via Instagram. “Engaged to tha love of my life,” she captioned the photo of her diamond ring. A few hours later she shared a photo of her man with her followers, but she didn’t reveal his name. Us later identified him as Paul Michael.
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The FIDM graduate announced via an Instagram video on February 20, 2020, that she is creating her own clothing line. “I’m really looking forward to starting my clothing line and I’m hoping that in the near future it will be out online,” she said.
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