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Amy Adams is an American actress. Born: 20 August 1974. Citizenship recorded in the biographical source: United States and Italy.
Amy Adams is an American actress. Born on 20 August 1974, this profile follows Amy Adams through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Her (2013). The location trail reaches Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Ambassador Hotel — former site and Santa Monica Pier. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
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Amy Adams is an American actress. Born: 20 August 1974. Citizenship recorded in the biographical source: United States and Italy.
Amy Adams is credited as cast member on Catch Me If You Can. The work’s existing location story leads to Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel is documented as a location associated with Catch Me If You Can (2002). The pin identifies the site; individual shots and interior sets can differ.
Catch Me If You Can — credits ↗︎The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel ↗︎
Amy Adams is credited as cast member on Her. The work’s existing location story leads to Santa Monica Pier. The Santa Monica Pier appears among the film’s recognisable local settings. It offers a public waterfront counterpoint to the enclosed spaces of Theodore’s daily life.
Her — credits ↗︎Santa Monica Pier ↗︎Grease · Leo Carrillo State Park ↗︎
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A screen location
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel is documented as a location associated with Catch Me If You Can (2002). The pin identifies the site; individual shots and interior sets can differ.
7000 Hollywood Boulevard
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The Santa Monica Pier appears among the film’s recognisable local settings. It offers a public waterfront counterpoint to the enclosed spaces of Theodore’s daily life.
200 Santa Monica Pier
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The former Ambassador Hotel was used for Catch Me If You Can. The hotel has been demolished; this record marks the former site, not a surviving set or visitor attraction.
3400 Wilshire Boulevard
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Walt Disney Concert Hall is one of the real Los Angeles landmarks incorporated into the film’s future city. Its exterior geometry sits naturally inside that imagined skyline.
111 S Grand Avenue
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Theodore’s beach outing with Samantha was filmed at Dockweiler. The film’s convenient rail arrival belongs to its imagined future, not a direct station-to-sand connection.
12000 Vista del Mar, Playa del Rey
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Steven Spielberg
Spike Jonze
Follow a scene into the hills. A song onto the Strip. A story all the way to the ocean.
Skyway: walk the future Los Angeles Spike Jonze joined from real LA and Shanghai’s Pudong; drag the seam between the two cities, lay raised walkways between real towers until the traffic below vanishes, and write to Dockweiler beach in someone else’s hand.
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Scarlett Johansson is an American actress. Born on 22 November 1984, this profile follows Scarlett Johansson through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001), Lost in Translation (2003), Iron Man 2 (2010) and Her (2013). The location trail reaches Musso & Frank Grill, Park Hyatt Tokyo and Shibuya Crossing, with existing stories in Tokyo. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
John Williams is an American composer and conductor. Born on 8 February 1932, this profile follows John Williams through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Long Goodbye (1973), Earthquake (1974) and Home Alone — Chicago (1990). The location trail reaches RMS Queen Mary, Lincoln Heights Jail and Hollywood Reservoir · Mulholland Dam, with existing stories in Chicago. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Joaquin Phoenix is an American actor. Born on 28 October 1974, this profile follows Joaquin Phoenix through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Her (2013). The location trail reaches Santa Monica Pier, Walt Disney Concert Hall and Dockweiler State Beach. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Jennifer Garner is an American actress. Born on 17 April 1972, this profile follows Jennifer Garner through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Alias (2001), Pearl Harbor (2001), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Valentine’s Day (2010). The location trail reaches Los Angeles City Hall, Greystone Mansion and The MacArthur · Park Plaza. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Olivia Wilde is an American actress and film director. Born on 10 March 1984, this profile follows Olivia Wilde through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include The O.C. (2003), House (2004), Her (2013) and Babylon (2022). The location trail reaches Redondo Beach Pier, The Biltmore Los Angeles and Santa Monica Pier. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.
Christopher Walken is an American actor. Born on 31 March 1943, this profile follows Christopher Walken through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include Nick of Time (1995), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and A View to a Kill. The location trail reaches Union Station, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and Ambassador Hotel — former site, with existing stories in San Francisco. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.