Anna Cooke Kendrick (born August 9, 1985) is an American actress. Her first starring role was in the 1998 Broadway musical High Society, for which she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She made her film debut in the musical comedy Camp (2003), and had a supporting role in The Twilight Saga (2008–2012). She achieved wider recognition for the comedy-drama film Up in the Air (2009), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for her starring role in the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017).
Kendrick has also starred in the comedies Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) and 50/50 (2011), the crime drama End of Watch (2012), the musical fantasy Into the Woods (2014), and the thrillers The Accountant (2016) and A Simple Favor (2018). She has also performed a voice role in the animated musical films Trolls (2016) and Trolls World Tour (2020). For starring in the short form series Dummy, she received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress.
From Portland, Maine, USA
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Popularity65
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Rating45.7M
Budget215M
RevenueActing
Primarily2025 ParaNorman: The Thrifting as Courtney Babcock (voice)
2025 Unsound
2025 Another Simple Favor as Stephanie Smothers
2024 Woman of the Hour as Sheryl Director, Executive Producer
2024 Self Reliance as Maddy
2023 Trolls: It Takes Three as Poppy (voice)
2023 Trolls Band Together as Poppy (voice)
2022 Alice, Darling as Alice Executive Producer
2021 Trolls Holiday in Harmony as Poppy (voice)
2021 Stowaway as Zoe Levenson Executive Producer
2020 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Water Crisis as Self - Stacey Pilgrim / Envy Adams
2020 Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall as Self
2020 Trolls World Tour as Poppy (voice)
2019 Noelle as Noelle Kringle
2019 The Day Shall Come as Kendra Glack
2018 A Simple Favor: Gravestone Martinis as Self
2018 Suburban Noir: The Visual Style of 'A Simple Favor' as Self
2018 A Simple Favor as Stephanie Smothers
2018 Elton John: I'm Still Standing - A Grammy Salute as Self
2017 Pitch Perfect 3 as Beca Mitchell
2017 Trolls: Trolla-Palooza Tour as Poppy (voice)
2017 Trolls: Dress Up as Poppy (voice)
2017 Trolls Holiday as Poppy (voice)
2017 Katy Perry: Will You Be My Witness? as Self
2017 Baby Driver Thanks
2017 Table 19 as Eloise McGarry
2016 The Accountant as Dana Cummings
2016 Trolls as Poppy (voice)
2016 The Hollars as Rebecca
2016 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates as Alice
2016 Get a Job as Jillian Stewart
2016 Mr. Right as Martha McKay
2015 Digging for Fire as Alicia
2015 Pitch Perfect 2 as Beca Mitchell
2014 Into the Woods as Cinderella
2014 The Last Five Years as Cathy Hiatt
2014 Cake as Nina Collins
2014 Life After Beth as Erica Wexler
2014 Happy Christmas as Jenny
2014 The Call as Self
2014 The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles as Self
2014 The Voices as Lisa
2013 Drinking Buddies as Jill
2013 The World's End Thanks
2013 Rapture-Palooza as Lindsey Lewis
2013 Anna Kendrick Goes K-Pop with F(x) as Self
2012 The Company You Keep as Diana
2012 Pitch Perfect as Beca Mitchell
2012 End of Watch as Janet Taylor
2012 ParaNorman as Courtney Babcock (voice)
2012 What to Expect When You're Expecting as Rosie Brennan
2011 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 as Jessica
2011 50/50 as Katherine McKay
2010 The Making of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' as Self
2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World as Stacey Pilgrim
2010 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse as Jessica
2009 Up in the Air as Natalie Keener
2009 The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Jessica
2009 The Marc Pease Experience as Meg Brickman
2009 Elsewhere as Sarah
2008 Twilight as Jessica
2007 Rocket Science as Ginny Ryerson
2003 Camp as Fritzi Wagner
2003 The Mayor as Sadie Winterhalter
1999 My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies as Self - Performer