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Biography Amanda Plummer last appeared as Alma in Tennessee Williams's "Summer and Smoke" with Kevin Anderson, directed by Michael Wilson. At the Stratford Theater in Ontario, she was Joan of Arc in an original adaptation of "The Lark" by Jean Anouilh, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. She appeared as Polly in "The Gnadiges Fraulein" with Elizabeth Ashley...
| Talent Agent: |
Red Management - Deb Dillistone
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| Profession: |
Actress / Thanks / Self |
| Born: |
23 March 1957, New York City, New York, USA (age 52) |
| Birth Name: |
Amanda Michael Plummer |
| Height: |
5' 5" (1.65 m) |
| Awards: |
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 5 wins & 4 nominations |
| Credited Years: |
1981 - 2010 |
Real Life Quotes
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In America we make result movies; a problem is set up and solved by two people who are specimens of physical perfection. That's not me. Even killers in American films are not really any good, because in America, there's only one way to look at a killer; he's the bad guy. |
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On Hollywood: "You've got to have a sense of humour about it. There's a con going on all the time. You can smell it in the air. People are always pretending to be something they're not in order to make a buck, to become that person they want to be." |
Trivia
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Daughter of Christopher Plummer and Tammy Grimes. |
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When she was a girl Amanda wanted to be a jockey. When she was 14, she passed an audition at the Belmont track, riding for Alfred Vanderbilt's stables. Of that she said: "Those were the greatest years of my life." |
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Great-great-granddaughter of John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, prime minister of Canada. |
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Nominated in 1981-82 for a Tony award for outstanding performance by an actress in a play for "A Taste Of Honey". |
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Won Broadway's 1982 Tony Award for Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Agnes of God." That same year, she also received a Tony nomination as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of "A Taste of Honey" -- making her one of only three actors (Dana Ivey and Kate Burton are the others) to receive two Tony acting nominations in the same year. In 1987, she received another Tony nomination as Best Actress (Play) for her role as Eliza Doolittle in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," opposite Peter O'Toole's Henry Higgins. |
Other Works
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Reads "Black Water" by Joyce Carol Oats for Books On Tape. |
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(2005) - Joan of Arc in "The Lark" - Stratford, Ontario, Canada. |
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(1998) Play: "Killer Joe" (off-Broadway) |
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She also appeared in several episodes of The CBS Radio Mystery Theater, from 1974 to 1982. |
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