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Anna Chlumsky

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Anna Chlumsky
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Anna Maria Chlumsky is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress, best known playing the lead role of Vada Sultenfuss in My Girl (1991) and its 1994 sequel. Between 1999 and 2005, Chlumsky's career entered a hiatus while she attended college. She returned to acting with roles in several independent films, including Blood Car (2007) and In the Loop (2009). From 2012 to 2019 Chlumsky portrayed Amy Brookheimer on the HBO television series Veep, for which she has received six nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

Chlumsky was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Nancy (née Zuncic), a singer, actress, and former flight attendant, and Frank Chlumsky Jr., a chef and saxophone player. She was raised in a Roman Catholic family. Chlumsky is of Czech and Croatian descent.

Chlumsky entered show business at an early age, modeling with her mother in an advertising campaign, though her roles in My Girl (1991) and My Girl 2 (1994) brought her fame. She also starred in Trading Mom (1994) alongside Sissy Spacek, as well as in Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995) with Christina Ricci. In the mid to late 1990s, she appeared or starred in several television films and series.

Chlumsky appeared as Mary Calvin in a season 17 episode of Law & Order, first airing on January 12, 2007; and as Lisa Klein in a season 20 episode, first airing March 15, 2010. In March 2007, she appeared in the 30 Rock episode "The Fighting Irish" as Liz Lemler, a romantic rival of protagonist Liz Lemon, who receives flowers meant for Lemler. Chlumsky was in four episodes of the ABC dramedy Cupid in 2009. Later that year, she starred in the Lifetime Television movie 12 Men of Christmas as Jan Lucas.

She starred in the Off Broadway production of Unconditional by Brett C. Leonard at The Public Theater, which opened on February 2008; it was produced by the LAByrinth Theater Company, She also starred in Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead in November 2005 at the American Theatre of Actors in New York City.

In 2009, she appeared in Armando Iannucci's BBC Films political satire In The Loop, co-starring with Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Chris Addison, James Gandolfini, and Mimi Kennedy, a quasi-spin-off of Iannucci's BBC TV series The Thick of It. She plays Liza, a State Department assistant in the movie. From 2012, Chlumsky has played Amy Brookheimer, aide to Julia Louis-Dreyfus's character in HBO's Veep, also produced by Iannucci. In June 2012, she starred in the world premiere of David Adjmi's 3C at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York.

Dan Aykroyd, who played her father in the two My Girl films, has said that a script for a third film has been in development since 2003. In April 2012, Chlumsky "put to rest" any rumors that such a film was in development. In addition to her role on Veep, Chlumsky has appeared in multiple television series between 2011 and 2013, including White Collar, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and NBC's adaptation of Hannibal.

Chlumsky has appeared on Broadway in You Can't Take It with You, and beginning in April 2015 as editor Iris Peabody in the comedy Living on Love, with Renee Fleming, Jerry O'Connell and Douglas Sills.

In 2017, Chlumsky appeared in the fourth season of AMC Networks' Halt and Catch Fire as Dr. Katie Herman, the love interest of Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy).

In October 2019, Chlumsky was cast in a main role, alongside Julia Garner in the Shonda Rhimes' upcoming Netflix limited drama series, Inventing Anna.
BornDecember 3, 1980
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Kevin Bacon, Anna Chlumsky, Carrie Preston, and Boone Platt in They/Them (2022)
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Anna Chlumsky and Anders Holm in The Devil Wore Anna (2022)
Anna Chlumsky and Marika Dominczyk in The Devil Wore Anna (2022)

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Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky in My Girl (1991)
My Girl
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  • Vada Sultenfuss
  • 1991
Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep (2012)
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  • Amy Brookheimer
Anna Chlumsky and Austin O'Brien in My Girl 2 (1994)
My Girl 2
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  • Vada Sultenfuss
  • 1994
Christina Ricci and Anna Chlumsky in Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
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  • Jody Salerno
  • 1995

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  • Kevin Bacon, Cooper Koch, Monique Kim, Austin Crute, Anna Lore, Quei Tann, Theo Germaine, and Darwin del Fabro in They/Them (2022)
    They/Them
  • Rugrats (2021)
    Rugrats
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  • Julia Garner in Inventing Anna (2022)
    Inventing Anna
  • John Cena in 64th Man (2019)
    64th Man
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep (2012)
    Veep
  • Hala (2019)
    Hala
  • Deadly Manners (2017)
    Deadly Manners
  • Halt and Catch Fire (2014)
    Halt and Catch Fire
  • Robot Chicken (2001)
    Robot Chicken
    • (voice)
  • American Girl Dolls: The Action Movie with Anna Chlumsky (2015)
    American Girl Dolls: The Action Movie with Anna Chlumsky
  • The End of the Tour (2015)
    The End of the Tour
  • Floating Sunflowers (2014)
    Floating Sunflowers
  • Mads Mikkelsen in Hannibal (2013)
    Hannibal
  • Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship (2013)
    Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship
  • Miles J. Harvey in Prez (2013)
    Prez
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    • December 3, 1980
    • Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • March 8, 2008 - present (2 children)
    • Nancy L. Chlumsky
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    Music video for The Temptations: "My Girl".
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    Desiring at one time to be a paleontologist, she once worked as an intern for The Field Museum in Chicago, classifying fish.
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    I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.

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