Amanda Seyfried, Before Little Red.

You have to know where you came from to know where you are going, right? OF COURSE RIGHT! That’s why I think it is important to take a look back on how some of Hollywood’s hottest celebs got their start. Amanda Seyfried’s new movie, Red Riding Hood, opened this past weekend, and it had me thinking. I wonder what this actress did before playing Karen Smith in the hit movie, Mean Girls? Fear not, because I did some digging and found out how well rounded this actress actually is.

Seyfried caught the showbiz bug at a very young age. In 1995, she began to act and model. Amanda was in good company with some of her modeling work, appearing alongside Leighton Meester in Limited Too ads.

She stopped modeling when she was seventeen and began to train with a Broadway coach. In 2000, Seyfried landed her first reoccurring television role as Lucy Montgomery in As The World Turns. In 2003, she moved to another daytime soap portraying Joni Stafford on All My Children. In that same year, Seyfried auditioned for Mean Girls and landed the role of ditzy plastic, Karen Smith. This earned her some major media attention in the industry.

Her next project was a turn back to television in the show Veronica Mars. Seyfried played Lilly Kane, Vernoica’s best friend who was murdered. Seyfried’s resume gained a bunch of credibility when she appeared on the hit HBO drama, Big Love. She played Sarah Hendrickson, the first daughter in a polygamous family. She was on the show for 4 seasons, when she decided to focus on her film career.

Since then Seyfried has appeared in everything from horror films, to romantic comedies, to independent projects. This is one starlet who really has experience quite the journey to fame. With studios naming Seyfried an “it” girl, I wonder what project she will pick up next!