Anna Faris - Film Career

Film Career

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. 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.

In 2008, she produced and starred in The House Bunny, about a retired Playboy bunny. 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.