It's hard to believe Anna Faris has been gracing our TV screens for the last two decades.
Since she rose to fame in the Scary Movie series,
the actress has undergone one of the most effortless transformations in Hollywood history.
Anna Faris grew up to be the amazing woman she is thanks to her parents,
father Jack Faris, a college administrator, and mother Karen Faris, a special education
teacher. While chatting with Women's Health in April 2018, Anna revealed,
"I had a very healthy upbringing when it came to eating,
but it also made me a rebel because there wasn't any junk food in the house. I'd go
to my friends' to sneak Doritos—chips of any kind were my favorite junk food growing up."
The Mom star's brother, Robert Harris, followed in their mom and dad's academic
footsteps, as he eventually became a sociology professor, but Anna yearned for the spotlight.
By the young age of 6, Anna's mother signed her up for drama classes. Even
though Anna was having a ball dancing and acting on stage in front of an audience,
she did not think of herself as the most graceful person, as she told Men's Journal,
"I was a quiet, weird kid who wore headgear, and I think most people can relate to that awkwardness."
After she started performing in acting classes as a young girl, Faris took her talents to high
school, where she blossomed in drama club. She gushed to the Seattle Times in 2006,
"I knew at a young age it was a difficult profession. My
parents were so supportive and believed in me 100 percent."
However, Faris' dreams of becoming a superstar were nearly derailed when she went to college.
After she began attending the University of Washington in 1994,
there was a brief time when Faris was no longer confident in her acting skills.
Faris candidly shared with Men's Journal in 2018,
"When I was going to school, I decided to give up acting because I didn’t think I
could ever make it. I worked at an ad agency as a receptionist and thought,
'Maybe I’ll work in advertising, and one day I could maybe publish a short story.'
But now I think I’m too far gone, too unqualified, to actually make a living doing anything else."
After earning a bachelor's degree in English,
the Overboard star focused on her career before landing her big break in the early 2000s.
After years of hard work, Faris gained widespread fame when she was cast in Scary
Movie alongside Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Regina Hall, Carmen Electra,
and Shannon Elizabeth. The iconic blockbuster was developed into a series of five parody films,
which have collectively grossed over $896 million worldwide at the box office,
according to Box Office Mojo. Faris told the Seattle Times,
"There aren't many comedic roles out there for
women. [...] I never realized how much fun I'm having."
After scoring a role in Scary Movie, Faris starred in 2002's The Hot Chick,
2003's Lost in Translation, 2007's Mama's Boy, and 2008's The House Bunny. In 2006,
she was nominated for her first SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a
Motion Picture alongside her Brokeback Mountain co-stars, but they lost to the cast of Crash.
Faris also appeared in 2018's Overboard, a remake of the 1987 rom-com starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt
Russell. And in 2020, she left her role in the hit TV series Mom after seven seasons.
During the time she was securing her status as a Hollywood star, Anna Faris was also juggling
her romantic life. In 2004, she married her first husband, Ben Indra. She had first met
the actor on the set of the independent film Lovers Lane in 1999. Indra told People in 2001,
"She was really cool, and I just didn't want to miss the chance to get to know
her as much as possible [...] I was just completely hypnotized."
However, Faris and Indra called it quits in 2008 after only four years of marriage. In
her 2017 book Unqualified, Faris revealed that she ended her marriage with Indra after she met actor
Chris Pratt on the set of Take Me Home Tonight in 2007. After feeling increasingly jealous of the
women that Pratt had been hooking up with, Faris broke up with Indra over the phone. She wrote,
"I had to repeat myself a number of times before he took me at my word. 'You're just tired; you're
really tired,' he responded at first. I just said: 'Nope, I'm leaving you.' And that was that."
Faris and Pratt started dating almost immediately, and nearly one year after
she finalized her divorce from Indra, the lovebirds walked down the aisle together in 2009.
Following her nuptials to Hollywood hunk Chris Pratt,
Anna Faris experienced motherhood for the first time when they welcomed their son,
Jack Pratt, in August 2012. Faris told HuffPost Live in 2016,
"I don't think anyone can really prepare you for
[motherhood] [...] the pressure and the guilt and all the things that
are wrapped up in that [...] I definitely grappled with the idea of 'Who am I now?'"
Although Faris was reveling in her role as a mom, her marriage to Pratt was not quite as successful.
After eight years of marriage, the beloved pair shocked the world when
they announced their split in 2017. Despite their divorce, Faris insisted she and Pratt
are solely focused on co-parenting their child, and told Marie Claire in 2018,
"It feels like it's more dramatic than it is.
Chris and I have a great friendship and Jack is so happy and so loved."
Despite getting divorced for a second time, there is no shortage of love in Anna Faris' life.
In February 2020, the former Mom star announced her engagement to cinematographer Michael Barrett.
Faris revealed the happy news when she boasted a canary yellow diamond
ring on that finger during an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
"This unbelievable ring I've just seen on your finger."
"This was not here the last time you were on the show!"
Of her engagement, Faris joked,
"You just get back on that horse."
Faris then proceeded to ask Corden to officiate the wedding, and said,
"I would love it if you auditioned [...] I want somebody that's humorous,
that also brings [...] heartfelt sentiment, that doesn't talk too much about themselves."
With another wedding on the horizon,
we cannot wait to see what life has in store for this talented star.
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