26 Facts About Liza Weil

Liza Weil was born on June 5,1977 and is an American actress.

Liza Weil is known for her roles as White House aide Amanda Tanner in the ABC political drama series Scandal and as attorney Bonnie Winterbottom in the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder.

Liza Weil was raised in, and continues to practice, Reform Judaism.

Liza Weil had aspirations of becoming an archaeologist in her younger years, because of the Indiana Jones film trilogy and a childhood crush on Harrison Ford.

Liza Weil has described herself as an average student who focused more on her budding acting career than her studies.

Liza Weil traveled frequently to New York City for professional auditions and acted in productions both off-Broadway and in Philadelphia's theatrical community before pursuing her film and television career.

Liza Weil has acted with every member of her family; in 2004, she headlined with her father in a well-received regional theater production of Proof at the Montgomery Theater in Souderton, Pennsylvania, just north of her adopted hometown of Lansdale.

Samantha Liza Weil played a student named Bernadette making a video yearbook entry in front of an impatient Paris, who is standing off to the side waiting to make her own entry.

An alumna of Columbia University, Liza Weil received her first major feature film role co-starring with Kevin Bacon in Stir of Echoes.

Liza Weil appeared in several other short and feature-length independent films, such as Motel Jerusalem, Scar, and Lullaby.

Liza Weil was originally considered for the role of Rory Gilmore by Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino before Alexis Bledel won the role; the character of Paris Geller was created especially for Liza Weil.

In 2006, Liza Weil was featured in the horror themed short film, Grace, in which her character suffers a miscarriage, yet decides to carry the baby to term with terrifying results.

Liza Weil had a minor role as a humane society worker in the Molly Shannon film Year of the Dog, and appeared as Doris Delay in the 2008 biographical film Neal Cassady, and as a reporter in the 2010 live-action rotoscoping film Mars.

Liza Weil voiced a public service announcement in support of the American Diabetes Association's Step Up to Fight Diabetes staircase climb event, which took place in Center City Philadelphia on October 20,2007.

In 2009, Liza Weil returned to her roots as a regular guest star in various television series, including appearances in Eleventh Hour, CSI, In Plain Sight, Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice and in February 2010 began a run as Dr Glass on the popular Internet series Anyone But Me; series creator Susan Miller officiated at Liza Weil's wedding to Paul Adelstein in 2006.

In March 2011, Liza Weil was cast as Amanda Tanner, a White House aide, in ABC's Scandal, a series written and produced by Shonda Rhimes.

Liza Weil had a recurring role in the series' first season.

Liza Weil played a supporting role in the horror film Smiley, and started 2013 as a recurring guest star in the last half of the only season of Amy Sherman-Palladino's ABC Family series Bunheads as Milly, the sister of Truly Stone.

Liza Weil is a frequent collaborator of independent film director Noah Buschel, having appeared in most of his work.

Liza Weil co-produced and starred in his 2014 low-budget project The Situation is Liquid.

Liza Weil reprised her role as Paris Geller in the "Winter" and "Spring" episodes of the Netflix revival series Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

In 2019, it was revealed that Liza Weil would appear in the third season of the Amazon Prime Video series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel as Carole Keen, making that series Liza Weil's third collaboration with the Palladinos.

Liza Weil married actor Paul Adelstein in a Reform Jewish ceremony in November 2006.

Liza Weil appeared in a 2011 episode of Private Practice, although she and Adelstein had no scenes together.

Liza Weil filed for divorce from Adelstein in March 2016, citing irreconcilable differences.

Liza Weil dated her How to Get Away with Murder co-star Charlie Weber from mid-2016 to February 2019.