Amy Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut with a supporting part in the 1999 satire Drop Dead Gorgeous, and her first major role was in Steven Spielberg's 2002 biopic Catch Me If You Can. After a breakthrough role as a loquacious pregnant woman in Junebug (2005), her first major success as a leading lady was in the 2007 musical Enchanted, in which she played a cheerful Disney Princess. She went on to play naive, optimistic women in a series of films. She played stronger female parts to positive reviews in The Fighter (2010) and The Master (2012), and in 2013 she began portraying Lois Lane in superhero films set in the DC Extended Universe. She won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for playing a seductive con artist in American Hustle (2013) and Margaret Keane in Big Eyes (2014). Further acclaim came for playing a linguist in the science fiction film Arrival (2016) and a self-harming reporter in the miniseries Sharp Objects (2018).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1710:

War of the Spanish Succession: The Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by the Marquis de Bay was soundly defeated by a multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saragossa

1909:

Pluto was photographed for the first time at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., 15 years before it was officially discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

1950:

Korean War: United Nations forces repelled an attempt by North Korea to capture the city of Taegu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taegu

1988:

Fires in the United States' Yellowstone National Park destroyed more than 150,000 acres (610 km2), the single-worst day of the conflagration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_fires_of_1988

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

repdigit: (recreational mathematics) A number composed of repeated instances of the same digit in a specified base. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/repdigit

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Man's respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.   --H. P. Lovecraft https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft