Anna Faris was born on November 29, 1976
in Baltimore, Maryland, to Jack, a sociology professor
Karen Faris, the second child of a special education teacher
Both his parents, natives of Seattle, Washington
lived in Baltimore when his father accepted
professorship at Towson University. When Farris was six years old
the family moved to Edmonds, Washington
His father served as vice president of
internal communications at the University of
Washington and later led the Washington Biotechnology
Biomedical Association, while his
mother taught at Edmonds Seaview Elementary School.
Anna Faris has an older brother, Robert
who is also a sociologist and professor at
the University of California, Davis. In interviews
she described her parents as "ultra-liberal" and said
that she and her brothers grew up in a secular but
"very conservative" traditional environment. At
the age of six, her parents enrolled her in a community drama class for
children, as they usually encouraged her to take up acting
She enjoyed watching plays and eventually did
her stuff in her bedroom with friends in the neighborhood
She said in interviews that she often imagines
her orthodontic retainer talking to her, and portrayed
herself as "talking about talking retainer on a talk show"
Click Here