Whatever Happened To Amanda Peet?

Amanda Peet is still acting, though she's been working primarily in television for the better part of the last decade. Recently, she could be seen in the second season of the true crime anthology series "Dirty John" which originally aired in 2020 on the USA Network. Based upon the popular podcast of the same name, Season 2 of "Dirty John" carried the subtitle, "The Betty Broderick Story." Peet plays the title character, and Christian Slater plays her husband, Dan. The plot revolves around their marriage and affluent life, which appears picture perfect to outsiders, but — as this is a tale of true crime — is anything but. The show itself garnered mixed positive reviews, but Peet was often singled out for her strong performance. 

Peet also co-starred in IFC's sports sitcom "Brockmire" with Hank Azaria and J.K. Simmons. The series, about a disgraced sports announcer who tries to restart his career in a small Pennsylvania minor league baseball market, ran for four seasons from 2017-2020. Peet was cast as Jules James, the hyper-competitive owner of the team, the Morristown Savages — who undergo a name change to become the Morristown Frackers.  

Concurrent to "Brockmire," Peet also worked on the 2018 Amazon Prime Video series "The Romanoffs." The eight-part anthology was Matthew Weiner's follow up to "Mad Men" and featured an almost entirely unique cast and story for each episode, though there were a few interconnected characters and plot threads. "The Romanoffs" imagines the lives of people all over the globe who claimed to be descendants of the infamous Russian Royal family who's line met a bloody end. Peet is the star of the fourth installment, "Expectation."