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Name: |
Amanda Plummer |
| DOB: |
23rd March 1957 |
| Birth Place: |
New York, New York, USA |
| Height: |
Not Available |
| Also Credited: |
Not Available |
| Profession: |
Actress |
| Spouse: |
Not Available |
| AT A GLANCE |
Amanda grew up as a tomboy, mostly in New York City, living with her mother and
others, but spent much time at her mother's parent's home in Lynn, Mass. Her early education
was in New York City at L'ecole Francais and United Nations High School. Her parents expected
that she would become a writer. At the age of 14, Amanda had passed up an audition at the Belmont track, to ride for Alfred Vanderbilt stables, and she has reflected on that time as the greatest years of her life. Amanda was
working in track and field, and turned down an request to participate in the the relays in the Olympics when she was a
teen ager. Her beloved authors are Ibsen, Faulkner, Artaud, Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard and Athol Fugard.
Amanda decided for acting after complete her graduation from Middlebury College.
She studied at New York's famed Neighborhood Playhouse drama school briefly, where one of her instructors was George C. Scott. During her first years in learning about stage acting, she worked as a telephone operator, usher, and property mistress. She remembers hanging lights at
Williamsburg. She worked as a company actor at the Williamstown, Mass. Theatre Festival, with stage credits which included A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gossip and The Overcoat. She made her off Broadway debut at the age of 21 in Lily Agnes's Artichoke, and was likened by critic John Simon to "Shirley Temple doing Boris Karloff". However, Lamont Johnson was so impressed by her acting in that play, that he asked her to audition for his film Cattle Annie and Little Britches. She debuted as Annie in this 1980 Universal Studio film, starring Burt Lancaster.
In 1979, she appeared with her mother, Tammy Grimes in A Month in the Country, and in 1980, she acted with Michael Jeter in "The Rabbit's House", part of Alice in Concert.
Amanda appeared in a revival of the play "A Taste of Honey" as Jo, on Broadway.
And she won a Tony nomination, and Drama Critics Award. In the year of 1983 she played Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, and that same year, she was directed by Sidney Lumet in the film Daniel, in which he compared her to the young Marlon Brando. In 1985 she appeared in Beth Henley's Life Under Water, and in A Lie of the Mind as Beth.
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| TRIVIA |
| Amanda Plummer won a 48th Emmy Award in guest actress, drama series for Showtime's TV
show. She won a Tony Award for her part in "Agnes of God" |
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