Amanda Plummer
Biography
Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress. Plummer was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of actors Tammy Grimes and Christopher Plummer. 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.
Plummer began appearing in small to mid size roles in television and films in the early 1980s. Her first successes came from her stage work. She made her Broadway debut as Josephine in the 1981 revival of A Taste of Honey. She won a Tony Award nomination and Theatre World Award for her portrayal. The following year, she won a Tony Award for Featured Actress and a Drama Desk Award for her portrayal of Sister Agnes in the play Agnes of God.
Following her successes on the stage, Plummer began appearing in major roles on television and in film. 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. Two other well-known roles were Yolanda (a.k.a. "Honey Bunny") in Pulp Fiction and Rose in So I Married An Axe Murderer.
Her film roles have been described as "spooky, kooky, half-mad characters."
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Full filmography
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Miranda Cole
- The Blacklist (2013) as Tracy Solobotkin
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
- Phineas and Ferb (2007) as Poofenplotz (voice)
- Miami Vice (1984) as Lisa Madsen
- Battlestar Galactica (2004) as Oracle
- Pulp Fiction (1994) as Honey Bunny
- Tony Awards (1956) as Self - Nominee
- L.A. Law (1986) as Alice Hackett
- The Equalizer (1985) as Jill O'Connor
- Moonlighting (1985) as Jackie Wilbourne
- Star Trek: Picard (2020) as Captain Vadic
- Tales from the Crypt (1989) as Peggy
- The Outer Limits (1995) as Dr. Theresa Givens
- Screen Two (1985) as Eunice
- Duckman (1994) as Princess Fallopia (voice)
- Hercules (1997) as Clotho (voice)
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) as Wiress
- Dark Skies (1996)
- Ratched (2020) as Louise
- True Blue (1989) as Susan Lizar
- Ken Park (2003) as Claude's Mother
- The Hidden Room (1991) as Sarah Cole
- For the People (2002) as Ruth Wright