American film and television actress Amy Adams To Play Janis Joplin In New Biopic

Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, the fourth of seven children of American parents Kathryn (née Hicken) and Richard Adams. Amy Adams has four brothers and two sisters.Her father, a US serviceman, was stationed at Caserma Ederle at the time of her birth, and took the family from base to base before settling in Castle Rock, Colorado when she was eight or nine years old. Thereafter, her father sang professionally in restaurants, while her mother was a semi-professional athlete.

Amy Adams is heading to Woodstock.The actress will play Janis Joplin in a biopic of the '60s singer, Access Hollywood has confirmed.

One project, "The Gospel According To Janis," with Zooey Deschanel attached to star, was in development in the mid-2000s, while a different film, to star Lili Taylor and executive produced by Jonathan Demme, was floated a few years prior. Singer Pink also formerly circled a Janis project, according to Deadline .

The new film will be produced by "The Twilight Saga" producer Wyck Godfrey. Deadline reported that the project has yet to find a studio.Amy will hit the screen next in "The Fighter," due in December, alongside Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg.Copyright 2010 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.