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Movies and television
Spears attended NYC's Professional Performing Arts School for three
summers when she was eight years old and performed in 1991's
Ruthless! and other off-Broadway productions. When she was eleven,
she joined the The New Mickey Mouse Club where she was featured from
1991–93. In the show she appeared in various sketches and musical
videos which mostly displayed her comedic and singing abilities.
Spears had her first starring role in the 2002 film, Crossroads
where she played Lucy, a Louisiana high school graduate who decides
she wants to find her long-lost mother in Arizona, and takes along
her two friends who wish to visit California. The movie, along with
Spears's performance in it, was poorly received by critics who
mostly saw it as an advertisement for Britney's music and
endorsments.Crossroads still managed to debut at number two on the
box-office charts in its first weekend. The film ended up making
over US$60 million worldwide, about five times its budget of US$12
million. Spears netted herself a Razzie Award for Worst Actress and
for Worst Original Song "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman". Also in
films Spears has made cameo appearances in Austin Powers in
Goldmember in 2002 as herself, and Longshot 2000 as a Flight
Attendant
On March 30, 2006, Spears was a guest-star on an episode of NBC's
television show Will & Grace titled "Buy, Buy Baby". She played
"Amber-Louise", a closeted lesbian posing as a conservative
Christian who is to co-host with Jack McFarland on his talk show "JackTalk".
NBC received criticism from conservative Christian groups for the
episode The episode was the third highest rated in the final season
of the series.
In addition, she has appeared on Saturday Night Live both as host
and musical guest twice: once on May 13, 2000, then again on
February 2, 2002. At eighteen, she was the youngest person in SNL
history to have acting and musical performing duties on the same
show
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