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

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Phineas and Ferb

Pax

Wim Wenders, Desperado

Tales from the Crypt

Ratched

The Blacklist

The Outer Limits

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Dollmaker

Hercules

Star Trek: Picard

Moonlighting

Miami Vice

The Cruelest Day

The Fisher King

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Dark Skies

Duckman

The Equalizer

Screen Two

The Lounge People

L.A. Law

The Dancer

October 22

The World According to Garp

Freaks of Nurture

American Perfekt

Dark Skies

The Prophecy

Daniel

American Playhouse

Freeway

Red

Made in Heaven

Butterfly Kiss

I Have to Buy New Shoes

Cattle Annie and Little Britches

Girlfriend

Kojak: None So Blind