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Amanda Plummer

Amanda Plummer

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Born

Amanda Michael Plummer


(1957-03-23) March 23, 1957 (age 67)

New York City, U.S.

OccupationActress
Years active1979–present
Parents

Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), The Fisher King (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).

Plummer won a Tony Award in 1982 for her role in Agnes of God. Her parents were actors Christopher Plummer and Tammy Grimes.[1][2]

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Amanda Plummer

American-Canadian actress (born 1957)

Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress. She is known for her work on stage and for her film roles, including Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), The Fisher King (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). Plummer won a Tony Award in 1982 for her performance in Agnes of God. She most recently appeared in the third season of Star Trek: Picard (2023).

Early life

Plummer was born on March 23, 1957, in New York City, the only child of American actress Tammy Grimes and Canadian actor Christopher Plummer.[1][2] Her father said that they named their daughter Amanda Michael after Amanda Prynne, a character from the play Private Lives, and the actress Michael Learned.[3] She attended the elite Trinity School before graduating from the United Nations International School (UNIS). She 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 N

Amanda Plummer Biography

Date of Birth:
Mar 23, 1957Birth Place:
New York, New York, USA

Biography

The daughter of two acting legends, Amanda Plummer carved out her own impressive stage and screen legacy. Creating the Broadway role of the innocent, ethereal young nun who claimed to have become pregnant by God, the actress won a Tony for Agnes of God and played many other stage roles to great acclaim. Onscreen, Plummer earned excellent reviews for small, offbeat roles including a mutilated victim in "The World According to Garp" (1982), a shy accountant in "The Fisher King" (1991) and the developmentally disabled girlfriend of mentally challenged Benny (Larry Drake) on "L.A. Law" (NBC, 1986-1994). Best remembered as the ferocious robber "Honey Bunny" who held up a diner with "Pumpkin" (Tim Roth) in "Pulp Fiction" (1994), the killer in Mike Myers's campy "So I Married an Axe Murderer" (1993), and a knife-happy small-town woman in Stephen King's "Needful Things" (1993), the multiple Emmy-winning Plummer was often cast as frighteningly intense, unhinged or desperate chara

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