Amanda Peet

Amanda Peet is an actress best known for starring in the NBC comedy-drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip alongside Matthew Perry. Peet spent her childhood in New York City, where she briefly studied acting at HB Studio. She later graduated from Columbia University with a history degree before pursuing acting full-time.

After getting her start Off-Broadway and on One Life to Live, Peet guest-starred on a handful of television shows, including Seinfeld, and starred in the short-lived WB series Jack & Jill. From 2006 to 2007, she played the role of Jordan McDeere on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. She later starred in multiple episodes of The Good Wife, Togetherness and Brockmire.

On the big screen, Peet has starred in She’s the One (1996), Saving Silverman (2001) and Something’s Gotta Give (2003). In 2025, she joined the cast of Your Friends and Neighbors as Mel Cooper.

The actress married screenwriter David Benioff in September 2006 and gave birth to daughter Frances Pen in February 2007. Peet’s second daughter, Molly, was born in April 2010, and her third child, Henry, was born in December 2014.