She began her film career in 1977 with a small part in Exorcist II: The Heretic. The same year, she appeared in the Saturday Night Live spinoff film Coneheads as one of Connie Conehead’s friends. From there, Adams was originally slated to play the female lead in Smith’s next film, 1999’s Dogma, but Linda Fiorentino ultimately got the part. in 2006, she, along with Lian Lunson and Nicole Holofcener, was awarded the Women in Film Dorothy Arzner Directors Award. Some speculation has been made that her high-pitched speaking voice has hampered her chances of Hollywood stardom, to which she has commented: “It’s not a normal voice. It doesn’t fit into people’s preconceptions about what a woman’s voice should sound like. She graduated from Northeast High School in 1986. She moved to Hollywood in 1988, but currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
