1. Amy Frederica Brenneman was born on June 22,1964 and is an American actress and producer.
27 Facts About Amy Brenneman
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Amy Brenneman worked extensively in television, coming to prominence as Detective Janice Licalsi in the ABC police drama series NYPD Blue.
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Amy Brenneman received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations for these roles.
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In subsequent years, Brenneman has had starring roles as Violet Turner in the Shonda Rhimes medical drama series Private Practice, and as Laurie Garvey on the HBO drama series The Leftovers.
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Amy Brenneman is known for her recurring role as Faye Moskowitz on Frasier and has starred in various films, including Heat, Fear, Daylight, Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, Nine Lives, and The Jane Austen Book Club.
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Amy Brenneman was born on June 22,1964, in New London, Connecticut, to Frederica Joanne, a judge of the Connecticut State Superior Court, and Russell Langdon Amy Brenneman Jr.
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Amy Brenneman's aunt was Cold War-era journalist Beryl D Hines.
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Amy Brenneman's mother was Jewish, and joined a Congregationalist church as an adult.
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Amy Brenneman was raised in Glastonbury, Connecticut, where she participated in theatre as a teenager, both in school at Glastonbury High School and with a local theater group.
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Amy Brenneman graduated from Harvard University, where she majored in comparative religion, in 1987.
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Amy Brenneman began her career in the short-lived CBS series Middle Ages in 1992.
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Amy Brenneman was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1994 and for Outstanding Guest Actress the following year.
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In 1996, Amy Brenneman had the female lead role opposite Sylvester Stallone in disaster thriller Daylight, and starred in another thriller, Fear.
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In 1999, Brenneman became creator and executive producer of her own television series Judging Amy, in which she played the title character.
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Amy Brenneman portrayed a divorced single mother working as a Family Court Judge in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Frederica Brenneman was one of Harvard Law School's first female graduates and became a juvenile court judge in Connecticut when Amy was three years old.
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Amy Brenneman starred in ensemble cast film Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her directed by Rodrigo Garcia in 2000.
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In 2007, Amy Brenneman played the role of Sylvia Avila in The Jane Austen Book Club based on 2004 novel of the same name by Karen Joy Fowler.
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In 2008, Amy Brenneman co-starred in 88 Minutes alongside Al Pacino.
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In March 2007, Amy Brenneman was cast as Violet Turner in the Grey's Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice.
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Amy Brenneman later starred in films The Face of Love and Words and Pictures, and was cast in HBO drama series The Leftovers opposite Justin Theroux.
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Also in 2013, Amy Brenneman played the role of Mary of Guise, the series' lead character's mother, in Reign.
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In 1995, Amy Brenneman married director Brad Silberling in the garden at her parents' home.
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Amy Brenneman and Silberling have two children, Charlotte Tucker and Bodhi Russell, in Pasadena.
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Amy Brenneman signed the "We Had Abortions" petition which appears in the October 2006 issue of Ms.
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In July 2008, Amy Brenneman was nominated as a candidate on the Unite for Strength slate for a place on the national governing board of the Screen Actors Guild in elections scheduled for September 18,2008.
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Amy Brenneman is a strong supporter of more restrictive gun laws, and in 2009 she hosted the Target for a Safe America gala at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun control group that favors restrictive gun laws and supports gun bans.