Amanda Plummer

Infobox actor
name = Amanda Plummer


birthname = Amanda Michael Plummer
birthdate = birth date and age|1957|3|23
birthplace = New York, New York, USA
spouse =
yearsactive =
website =
academyawards =
emmyawards = Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie
1992, "Miss Rose White"
Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series
2005 ""
1996 "Amazing Stories"
tonyawards = Best Featured Actress in a Play
1982 "Agnes of God"

Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American award-winning actress.

Biography

Plummer was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of actors Tammy Grimes and Christopher Plummer. [ [http://wc03.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=B57109 allmovie ((( Amanda Plummer > Overview ))) ] ] Plummer attended Middlebury College in Vermont and acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Early in life, her interest was in riding and tending to horses on the East Coast and in Ireland. ["The San Diego Union-Tribune", Anne Marie Welsh, p. E-1, May 30, 2003]

Her first movie was the 1981 western "Cattle Annie and Little Britches". She received a Tony Award nomination and the 1981 Theatre World Award for her first Broadway role, as Josephine in a Broadway revival of "A Taste of Honey". She won the 1982 Tony Award for Featured Actress for her portrayal of Sister Agnes in the play "Agnes of God", her second role on Broadway. [ [http://www.tonyawards.com/p/tonys_search Tony Award listing] ] Before achieving leading movie roles, one of her most recognized appearances was on "L.A. Law" as Alice Hackett, a developmentally disabled girlfriend of Benny Stulwitz, played by Larry Drake, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination.

Her film roles have been described as "spooky, kooky, half-mad characters." ("The San Diego Union-Tribune")

Work

Filmography

* " Cattle Annie and Little Britches" (1981)
* "The World According to Garp" (1982)
* "Static" (1986)
* "Joe Versus The Volcano" (1990)
* "The Fisher King" (1991)
* "Freejack" (1992)
* "So I Married an Axe Murderer" (1993)
* "Needful Things" (1993)
* "Pulp Fiction" (1994)
* "Butterfly Kiss" (1995)
* "Nostrodamus" (1995)
* "The Final Cut" (1995)
* "The Prophecy" (1995)
* "Freeway" (1996)
* "American Perfekt" (1997)
* "8½ Women" (1999)
* "The Million Dollar Hotel" (2000)
* "Get a Clue" (2002)
* "Ken Park" (2002)
* "My Life Without Me" (2003)
* "Satan's Little Helper" (2004)
* "TMA" (2005)
* "Battlestar Galactica" (2006)
* "Red" (2008)

tage

* "A Month in the Country" (off-Broadway) (1979)
* "A Taste of Honey" (1981) (Tony Award nominee-Best Actress)
* "Agnes of God" (1982)
* "The Glass Menagerie" (revival) (1983)
* "A Lie of the Mind" (off-Broadway) (1985)
* "You Never Can Tell" (revival) (1986)
* "Pygmalion" (revival) (1987) (Tony Award nominee-Best Actress)
* "Abundance" (off-Broadway) (1990)
* "Killer Joe" (off-Broadway) (1998)
* "The Lark (Stratford Shakespeare Festival)" (2005)
* "Summer and Smoke" (Hartford/Paper Mill) (2006, 2007)

References

External links

*
*
* [http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&keyword=name&first=Amanda&last=Plummer&middle= Amanda Plummer] at the Lortel Archives Internet Off-Broadway Database
* [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/89109.html playbill article, Oct. 20, 2004]
* [http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Amanda_Plummer/191259#fullBio Hollywood.com listing]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E6DE1E39F93BA15757C0A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 "NewYork Times" article, April 28, 1996]