What is the net worth of Amy Smart?
Amy Smart is an American actress and fashion model who has a net worth of $8 million. Amy Smart is best known for her selling performances in films such as “Starship Troopers”, “Varsity Blues”, “Road Trip” and “The Butterfly Effect”. On television, she had recurring roles on ‘Felicity’, ‘Shameless’ and ‘Justified’ and began playing the lead role of Barbara Whitmore in the superhero series ‘Stargirl’ in 2020. Smart’s other credits include the films ‘ Sky of stars”. & Hutch’, ‘The Single Moms Club’ and ‘Among Ravens’.
Youth
Amy Smart was born on March 26, 1976 in Los Angeles, California to John, a salesman, and Judy, who worked at a museum. She was raised in the Topanga Canyon area. Growing up, Smart studied ballet for 10 years. As a teenager, he attended Palisades Charter High School.
Career beginnings
Smart started her career as a model in Milan, Italy. She went on to appear in the Lemonheads’ “It’s About Time” video in 1993. Three years later, she made her acting debut in the television movie “Her Costly Affair.” Later in 1997, Smart made her big screen debut when she appeared in three films: the horror anthology film Campfire Tales, the independent drama The Last Time I Committed Suicide, and the sci-fi action film Starship . Soldiers.” Also that year, she had a lead role in the direct-to-video action film High Voltage.
Film career
After her big year in 1997, Smart starred in the comedies “How to Make the Cruelest Month” and “Starstruck” and the slasher film “Strangeland.” She had a breakthrough in 199 when she played the girlfriend of a high school football player in the sports drama Varsity Blues. Starring James Van Der Beek, Jon Voight, Paul Walker, Scott Caan and Ron Lester, the film was a significant box-office success. In the same year, Smart had a leading role in the teen comedy Outside Providence, adapted from Peter Farrelly’s novel of the same name. Her later credits were the sex comedy Road Trip; modernized Shakespeare adaptation “Scotland, PA”; ensemble comedy “The Rat Race”; the road movie “Interstate 60”; the teen sex comedy “National Lampoon’s Barely Legal”; teen drama “The Battle of Shaker Heights”;
Smart had a big year in 2004, appearing in three films. She had supporting roles in the romantic comedy “Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!” and the action film “Starsky & Hutch” and a lead role in the sci-fi thriller “The Butterfly Effect” opposite Ashton Kutcher. This was followed by another big one in 2005 when Smart starred in the drama ‘Bigger Than the Sky’ and the comedies ‘The Best Man’ and ‘Just Friends’. He later had leading roles in ‘Peaceful Warrior’, ‘Crank’, ‘Life in Flight’, ‘Mirrors’, ‘Seventh Moon’, ‘Love N’ Dancing’, ‘Crank: High Voltage’ and ‘Dead Awake’. Smart’s other credits included the action film “The Reunion”; the thriller”
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Television career
Smart had her first and significant television role from 1999 to 2001, when she played the recurring role of Ruby in the second and third seasons of Felicity. During this time, she also starred in the miniseries ’70s. In 2003, Smart guest-starred on the sitcom Scrubs, playing one of the many love interests of Zach Braff’s lead character JD She, and then lent her voice to the animated comedy series Robot Chicken, in which a continued to appear for several years. Smart landed her first lead role in 2006, playing a professional thief opposite Ray Liotta and Virginia Madsen in the CBS series “Smith.” However, only three episodes aired before the show was cancelled.
In 2011, Smart starred alongside Mark-Paul Gosselaar in the television movie 12 Dates of Christmas. At the same time, she began playing the recurring role of Jasmine Hollander on the Showtime series Shameless. Smart had another recurring role in 2014, playing Alison Brander in the fifth season of the FX Western crime series Justified. Also that year, she starred in the Lifetime television movie Run for Your Life. Smart later appeared in two episodes of the IFC comedy series “Maron” and appeared in the television movies “Sister Cities” and “Love at First Glance.” She landed one of her biggest television roles so far in 2020 when she began playing Barbara Whitmore, the titular character’s mother, in the superhero series Stargirl.
Personal life
In 2011, Smart married HGTV personality Carter Oosterhouse. The two were married in Oosterhouse’s hometown of Traverse City, Michigan. After Smart struggled to conceive for years, the couple had a daughter named Flora via surrogate in 2016.
Amy is a certified yoga instructor.
immobility
In 2012, Amy and Carter paid $2.5 million for a house in Beverly Hills, California. They listed this home for sale in 2017 for $3.8 million, selling it a few months later for $3.45 million.
Amy previously owned another home in Beverly Hills, which she sold in 2011 for $1.12 million. Carter previously owned a townhouse in Manhattan Beach, California, which she sold in 2015 for $1.7 million.
In January 2017, they paid $2.9 million for a three-acre property in Malibu. They rented this house in 2020 for $23,000 per month.
