Amanda Plummer

Amanda Plummer
Born	Amanda Michael Plummer (1957-03-23) March 23, 1957 New York City, New York, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1979–present

Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress best known for her Tony-winning work on stage and for her roles in such notable films as Pulp Fiction (1994) and The Fisher King (1991), in addition to her Emmy-winning turns on television.

Life and career

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 movie was the 1981 western Cattle Annie and Little Britches followed by The World According to Garp (1982), Daniel (1983), and The Hotel New Hampshire (1984). However, Plummer's major 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. In 1983 she portrayed Laura Wingfield opposite Jessica Tandy's Amanda Wingfield in the Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie. Her other Broadway performances include Dolly Clandon in You Never Can Tell (1986) and Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (1987), for the latter of which she received a third Tony Award nomination.

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. In 2005, she won an Emmy for her role as Miranda Cole in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode Weak, in which she played a schizophrenic. Two other well-known roles were Yolanda (a.k.a. "Honey Bunny") in Pulp Fiction and Rose in So I Married An Axe Murderer. In 1988, she played an eccentric school teacher in Gryphon, an especially memorable episode of the PBS series Wonderworks.

Work

Filmography

• Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981)
• The World According to Garp (1982)
• Daniel (1983)
• The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
• The Dollmaker (1984)
• Static (1986)
• Courtship (1987)
• Made in Heaven (1987)
• Prisoners of Inertia (1989)
• Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
• The Fisher King (1991)
• Freejack (1992)
• Miss Rose White (1992)
• So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
• Needful Things (1993)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Butterfly Kiss (1995)
• Nostradamus (1995)
• The Final Cut (1995)
• The Prophecy (1995)
• Drunks (1995)
• Dead Girl (1996)
• Freeway (1996)
• The Right To Remain Silent (1996)
• Don't Look Back (1996)
• American Perfekt (1997)
• Hercules (1997) (voice) - (The Fates)
• A Simple Wish (1997)
• You Can Thank Me Later (1998)
• L.A. Without a Map (1998)
• Hysteria (1998)
• October 22 (1998)
• 8½ Women (1999)
• The Apartment Complex (1999)
• The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
• Seven Days to Live (2000)
• The Gray in Between (2002)
• Triggermen (2002)
• Get a Clue (2002)
• Ken Park (2002)
• My Life Without Me (2003)
• Mimic 3: Sentinel (2003)
• Satan's Little Helper (2004)
• Battlestar Galactica (2006) (TV)
• WordGirl (2007) (voice)
• Red (2008)
• Affinity (2008)
• 45 R.P.M. (2008)
• The Making of Plus One (2009)
• Sophomore (2009)

Stage

• A Month in the Country (off-Broadway) (1979)
• A Taste of Honey (1981) (Tony Award nominee-Best Actress)
• Agnes of God (1982) (Tony Award nominee-Best Featured Actress)
• 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)

Television

• Phineas and Ferb episode "Isabella and the Temple of Sap" (2009)
• The Outer Limits episodes "Stitch in Time" (1996) and "Final Appeal" (2000) - plays Dr. Theresa Givens in both episodes
• Under the Piano, TV film
• Miami Vice 1989 Episode, "Fruit of the Poison Tree" - Plays a Senior Associate Lawyer
• Tales from the Crypt 1989 Episode, ""Lover Come Hack to Me"" - Peggy

Radio

• CBS Radio Mystery Theater May 1, 1981 episode 1192 "The Voices"
• CBS Radio Mystery Theater October 29, 1981 episode 1255 "In Touch"

External links

• Amanda Plummer at the Internet Broadway Database
• Amanda Plummer at IMDb
• Amanda Plummer at the Lortel Archives Internet Off-Broadway Database
• playbill article, Oct. 20, 2004
• Hollywood.com listing
• NewYork Times article, April 28, 1996
• Stephen Capen Interview on Worldguide, Futurist Radio Hour -- October 14, 1995