Amanda Laura Bynes is a former American actress. Bynes began her career as a child, appearing on the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That (1996–2000) and its spin-off series The Amanda Show (1999–2002). During her mid-teens, she played Holly Tyler on the WB sitcom What I Like About You (2002–2006), Kaylee in the teen comedy film Big Fat Liar (2002) and Daphne Reynolds in the comedy film What a Girl Wants (2003), and voiced Piper Pinwheeler in the animated film Robots (2005). As an adult, she starred as Viola Hastings in the romantic comedy film She's the Man (2006), Penny Lou Pingleton in the musical film Hairspray (2007), and Marianne Bryant in the comedy film Easy A (2010).

Robots is a 2005 American animated science fiction adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film is directed by Chris Wedge and co-directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire and the writing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, based on a story conceived by Lindsay-Abaire, Ron Mita and Jim McClain. It stars the voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey and Robin Williams. The story follows an ambitious inventor robot named Rodney Copperbottom (McGregor), who seeks his idol Bigweld (Brooks) to work for his company in Robot City, but discovers a plot by its new leader Ratchet (Kinnear) and his mother to forcibly upgrade its populace and eradicate struggling robots, known as "outmodes".