Allentown native Amanda Seyfried has become the only known person in the five-county Times News region to have been nominated for the top 3 acting awards then went on to win two of them - so far.

Receiving a Golden Globe Award last week, Seyfried wrapped up an impressive year after having won a prime time Emmy earlier in 2022. She also received an Oscar nomination in 2021 for the 2020 film “Mank.”

Industry specialists say that at the relatively young age of 37, Seyfried still has a promising career in front of her despite her already spectacular credentials.

Born and raised in Allentown, Seyfried (pronounced sigh-frid) began modeling at age 11 and wound up in acting at age 15 with a recurring role in CBS’ popular soap opera “As the World Turns,” then ABC’s “All My Children.”

Audiences really took notice of her in 2004 when she made her film debut in the wildly popular “Mean Girls,” which grossed $130 million, then went on to gain new applause appearing as Lilly Kane on “Veronica Mars” and later as Sarah Henrickson on five seasons of the HBO hit series “Big Love.”

Seyfried has been much in demand as one of Hollywood’s leading female actresses and has appeared in both film versions of “Mamma Mia” (2008 and 2018), “Dear John” (2010), “Les Miserables” (2012), “Ted” (2015), “First Reformed” (2017) and numerous others.

She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Marion Davies in the 2020 biopic “Mank,” the story of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz. Seyfried played the role of newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane’s longtime lover and confidante. She was rewarded for her performance with an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress and recognized during the 2021 awards ceremony.

This was followed up in 2022 by “The Dropout,” her brilliant portrayal of Elizabeth Holmes, the controversial founder and CEO of Theranos, a company which was said to have developed blood-testing techniques that would revolutionize the medical world. Instead, the company spiraled into bankruptcy, and Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison late last year for defrauding investors of $144 million. Holmes is scheduled to begin her prison term on April 23.

For her work in “The Dropout,” Seyfried first received a prime-time Emmy for best actress in the Hulu limited series, then the Golden Globe Award for best actress in a limited series or television film.

Seyfried, a 2003 graduate of Allen High School, is the daughter of Ann and Jack Seyfried. She has one older sibling, Jennifer, who is a musician in the Philadelphia area. Seyfried’s mother worked as an occupational therapist, while her father is a pharmacist at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Bethlehem. Amanda is married to actor Thomas Sadoski, with whom she had co-starred in the film “The Last Word.” They celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary last March. They have two children, Nina Sadoski Seyfried, age 5, and a son, Thomas, age 1.

After graduating from Allen High School, Seyfried enrolled at Fordham University in New York City during the fall semester of 2003 but dropped out when she won the coveted role of Karen Smith in “Mean Girls.”

In 2011, People magazine ranked her No. 1 in its feature article on “25 Beauties and Hotties at 25.” She serves as brand ambassador for Swiss luxury watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre and global ambassador for Lancome, a high end French cosmetics firm.

In interviews with celebrity publications, Seyfried has acknowledged that she suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic attacks. She also has worked hard to overcome stage fright, which had limited her theatrical performances.

What’s next for Seyfried? On her Instagram account last week she said that she is working on something “magical, and it’s a musical.” She said that she is “finally getting to work on something that I have never done,” but she was not more explicit, so stay tuned.

I am told that Seyfried makes occasional, mostly unannounced, trips back to the Lehigh Valley to visit her family and friends.

By Bruce Frassinelli?|?tneditor@tnonline.com