Amy Smart was born in 1976 in Topanga Canyon, California. As a young girl, she gained a reputation as a tomboy and was the only girl on her Little League baseball team. She started to model at age thirteen and moved into acting after landing a role in the 1994 MTV Rock The Vote campaign.
She broke into show business with small roles in television movies before making her feature debut in the 1997 independent film, The Last Time I Committed Suicide. smartship troopers Smart later gained a small part in the Paul Verhoeven science fiction vehicle Starship Troopers.
In How to Make the Cruelest Month, Smart played a seductress who betrays her sister. The horror film Campfire Tales followed in 1998, along with the Internet stalker thriller, Dee Snider's StrangeLand, written, produced and starring the front man of Twisted Sister.