Amanda Plummer

Known for ActingBorn 1957-03-23 (age 69)New York City, New York, USA

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."Read more

Movies & web series

For the People

The Sands of Time

Courtship

The Gray in Between

The Story of the Dancing Frog

Pulp Fiction

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Battlestar Galactica

Phineas and Ferb

Pax

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Tales from the Crypt

Ratched

The Blacklist

The Outer Limits

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Dollmaker

Hercules

Star Trek: Picard

Phone

Moonlighting

Miami Vice

The Fisher King

The Cruelest Day

Dark Skies

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Duckman

The Equalizer

L.A. Law

The Lounge People

The Dancer

October 22

Freaks of Nurture

Daniel

The World According to Garp

The Prophecy

American Perfekt

Freeway

Made in Heaven

Cattle Annie and Little Britches

Red

I Have to Buy New Shoes

Butterfly Kiss

Kojak: None So Blind

Vampire

Girlfriend

Needful Things