Bellamy Young starred in the Fox series Prodigal Son.
25 Facts About Bellamy Young
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Bellamy Young changed her name to join the Screen Actors Guild since there was another Amy Young registered, and chose the name Bellamy as a tribute to her late father's best friend, Bill, who had helped to raise her after her father died.
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Bellamy Young attended Yale University, initially majoring in physics but studying English and theatre, and graduated in 1991.
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Bellamy Young spent a summer during college at the British American Drama Academy in England.
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Bellamy Young has appeared Off-Broadway in Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along, and Randy Newman's Faust.
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From 2000 to 2011, Bellamy Young made over 30 guest appearances on television shows.
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Bellamy Young was a regular cast member in the USA Network series Peacemakers in 2003.
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Bellamy Young had recurring roles in the Lifetime legal drama series For the People as Deputy Dist.
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Bellamy Young had a recurring role in Criminal Minds as Beth Clemmons from 2011 to 2013.
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Bellamy Young has appeared in supporting roles in a number of films, including We Were Soldiers and Mission: Impossible III, along with independent movies like Larceny, Eve of Understanding, Trust Me, This Is Not a Test, In My Sleep, The Freebie, and Joint Body.
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Bellamy Young appeared in every episode of the first season of Scandal and was upgraded to a series regular in season two.
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Bellamy Young later said that her part was originally conceived as a three episode arc.
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Bellamy Young has received critical acclaim for her performance as Melody Grant throughout her time on the show.
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On May 15,2015, Bellamy Young released her first album, Far Away So Close, on iTunes.
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In March 2019, Bellamy Young announced that she would be co-starring in the Fox drama pilot Prodigal Son opposite Michael Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Tom Payne.
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Bellamy Young guest-starred in the ABC crime drama Whiskey Cavalier and Netflix anthology Dolly Parton's Heartstrings in 2019.
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In 2022, Bellamy Young starred in the ABC family drama series, Promised Land playing villainous Margaret Honeycroft.
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Bellamy Young returned to role of Olivia Walton in The Waltons' Thanksgiving later in 2022.
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Bellamy Young has been vegan since 1988 and in 2016 participated in a campaign for PETA titled, "Being Vegan Keeps Me Bellamy Young".
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From August through November 2016, Bellamy Young hit the campaign trail for Clinton and visited Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire.
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Bellamy Young is the honorary chair for the domestic violence nonprofit organization 'Helpmate' and has helped raise funds for victims of domestic violence.
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Bellamy Young became a partner with GlaxoSmithKline for Treximet, in 2015, to spread migraine awareness.
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For International Women's Day 2020, Bellamy Young directed a PSA, for CARE; she appears as well as Kerry Washington, Shonda Rhimes, and Katie Lowes.
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Bellamy Young began dating Portuguese percussionist Pedro Segundo, nineteen years her junior, in September 2017.
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In September 2022, Bellamy Young revealed she and Segundo married during the COVID-19 pandemic.