1. Amanda Michael Plummer was born on March 23,1957 and is an American actress.
19 Facts About Amanda Plummer
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Amanda Plummer is known for her work on stage and for her film roles, including Joe Versus the Volcano, The Fisher King, Pulp Fiction, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
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Amanda Plummer was born on March 23,1957, in New York City, the only child of American actress Tammy Grimes and Canadian actor Christopher Amanda Plummer.
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Amanda Plummer's father said that they named their daughter Amanda Michael after Amanda Prynne, a character from the play Private Lives, and the actress Michael Learned.
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Amanda Plummer attended the elite Trinity School before graduating from the United Nations International School.
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Amanda Plummer attended Middlebury College for two and a half years, and as a young adult, studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.
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Amanda Plummer has received critical acclaim for her film work, including such films as Cattle Annie and Little Britches, The World According to Garp, Daniel, and The Hotel New Hampshire.
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Amanda Plummer made her Broadway debut as Jo in the 1981 revival of A Taste of Honey, which ran for almost a year with Valerie French playing Helen, Jo's mother.
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Amanda Plummer received a Tony Award nomination, a Theatre World, a Drama Desk, and an Outer Critics Circle Awards for her portrayal.
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Amanda Plummer won a Tony Award for Featured Actress and the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Boston Critics Circle Awards for her portrayal of Agnes in Agnes of God, with Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Ashley.
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Amanda Plummer's off-Broadway plays include as Beth in Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, and Killer Joe, written by Tracy Letts.
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Amanda Plummer has performed in many of Tennessee Williams' plays, including Summer and Smoke, The Gnadiges Fraulein, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and the world premiere of The One Exception.
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In 1996, Amanda Plummer won an Emmy Award for her guest appearance on the episode "A Stitch in Time" of The Outer Limits.
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Amanda Plummer was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and received another Emmy Award for her performance in Miss Rose White, a Hallmark made-for-television film about a Holocaust survivor, for which she received the Anti-Defamation League Award.
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Amanda Plummer played Wiress, a former "tribute" who won the Hunger Games, in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the film adaptation of the second novel of The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins.
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Amanda Plummer starred alongside Brad Dourif in the critically acclaimed Off Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play at New World Stages in 2013.
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In 2020, Amanda Plummer was featured in the Netflix drama series Ratched.
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Amanda Plummer plays Vadic, the main villain of the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard, in 2023.
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Amanda Plummer dated screenwriter and director Paul Chart in the late 1990s.