Amy Smart was born in March 1976 in Topanga Canyon, California. She was a newcomer to the film industry when her 1999 youth films Varsity Blues and Outside Providence attracted attention.
Amy's father, John, is a salesman, and her mother, Judy, works at a museum. As a teenager, she was very naughty, a typical tomboy, and the only girl on her baseball team. She began modeling at the age of 13 and turned to acting in 1994. Blonde and carefree, she starred in several television films before making her big-screen debut in Stephen Kay's The Last Time I Committed Suicide, which was later screened at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival; She also played a supporting role in director Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi action blockbuster Starship Troopers and as a girl seducing her sister's boyfriend in the independent film How to Make the Cruelest Month, before starring in the 1998 horror film Campfire Tales and the web thriller Dee Snider's StrangeLand)。 In "The Main Force" that has won widespread attention, her appearance and acting skills are reminiscent of Katie Holmes in "Dawson's Creek", and Amy's next work "Beyond Providence" is remade from the 70s comedy of the same name, and her good performance has also won many audiences.
