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Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American-Canadian actress. She is known for her work on stage and for her roles in such films as 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.

Amanda Plummer
Plummer in 2018
Born	Amanda Michael Plummer (1957-03-23) March 23, 1957 (age 65) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1979–present
Parents	Christopher Plummer (father) Tammy Grimes (mother)
Relatives	Elaine Taylor (stepmother)

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 New York City.[4]

Career

Plummer has received critical acclaim for her film work, including such films as Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981), The World According to Garp (1982), Daniel (1983), and The Hotel New Hampshire (1984). Other films of note include The Fisher King, for which she received a BAFTA film nomination (1992), a Chicago Film Critics Association Award nomination (1992), and a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award (1992).

Other films include Pulp Fiction, for which she received an American Comedy Award nomination; Girlfriend; Butterfly Kiss, My Life Without Me; Vampire, and Ken Park. She 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. She received a Tony Award nomination, a Theatre World, a Drama Desk, and an Outer Critics Circle Awards for her portrayal.

She 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.[5] In 1983, she portrayed Laura Wingfield in a Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie. Other Broadway performances include Dolly Clandon in You Never Can Tell (1986), and as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (1987; for which she received her third Tony Award nomination, this time for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.)[6]

Off-Broadway plays include Beth in Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, and Killer Joe, written by Tracy Letts. She has performed in many of Tennessee Williams' plays, including Summer and Smoke, The Gnädiges Fräulein, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, and the world premiere of The One Exception.[7]

In 1996, Plummer won an Emmy Award for her guest appearance on the episode "A Stitch in Time" of The Outer Limits.[8] In 2005, she won an Emmy as Miranda Cole in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Weak", in which she played a woman with schizophrenia.

She 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. For her performance in Last Light (1993), she received a Cable Ace Award nomination. Other awards include the Hollywood Drama Critics Award for her performance in the title female role in Romeo and Juliet, the Saturn Award for her performance as Nettie in Needful Things (1993), and a Cable Ace Award for her performance in The Right To Remain Silent (1996).

Plummer played Wiress, a former "tribute" who won the Hunger Games, in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), the film adaptation of the second novel of The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins.[9] 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.[10][11]

In 2020, Plummer was featured in the Netflix drama series Ratched.[12] Plummer will play Vadic, the main villain of the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard, in 2023.[13]

Personal life

Plummer dated screenwriter and director Paul Chart in the late 1990s.[14] The two lived together in Los Angeles[15] and worked together on Chart's film American Perfekt.[16]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Cattle Annie and Little Britches	Anna "Cattle Annie" McDoulet
1982	The World According to Garp	Ellen James
1983	Daniel	Susan Isaacson
1984	The Hotel New Hampshire	Miss Dawn Miscarriage
	The Dollmaker	Mamie Childers	Television film
1985	Static	Julia Purcell
1987	Courtship	Laura Vaughn
	Made in Heaven	Wiley Foxx
1988	Gryphon	Ms. Annette Ferenczi	Television film
1989	Prisoners of Inertia	Sam
1990	Joe Versus the Volcano	Dagmar
1991	The Fisher King	Lydia Sinclair	Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
1992	Freejack	Nun
	Sands of Time	Sister Graziella	Television film
	Miss Rose White	Lusia Burke	Television film Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
	The Lounge People	Sabrina
1993	So I Married an Axe Murderer	Rose Michaels
	Last Light	Lillian Burke	Television film
	Needful Things	Nettie Cobb	Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica	Cara Clausen	Television film
1994	Pulp Fiction	Honey Bunny/Yolanda	Nominated—American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
	Pax	Franny
1995	Butterfly Kiss	Eunice
	Nostradamus	Catherine de' Medici
	The Final Cut	Rothstein
	The Prophecy	Rachael
	Drunks	Shelley
1996	Dead Girl	Frida
	Freeway	Ramona Lutz
	The Right To Remain Silent	Paulina Marcos	Television film CableACE Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
	Don't Look Back	Bridget	Television film
	Under the Piano	Franny Basilio	Television film
1997	American Perfekt	Sandra Thomas
	Hercules	Clotho	Voice
	A Simple Wish	Boots
	Hysteria	Myrna Malloy
1998	You Can Thank Me Later	Susan Cooperbeg
	L.A. Without a Map	Red Pool Owner
	October 22	Denise
1999	8½ Women	Beryl
	The Apartment Complex	Miss Chenille	Television film
2000	The Million Dollar Hotel	Vivien
	Seven Days to Live [de]	Ellen Shaw
2002	The Gray in Between	Jalyn
	The Last Angel	The Last Angel	Short film
	Triggermen	Penny Archer
	Get a Clue	Miss Kim Dawson	Television film
	Ken Park	Claude's mother
2003	My Life Without Me	Laurie
	The Cruelest Day	Karin
	Mimic 3: Sentinel	Simone Montrose	Direct-to-video
2004	Satan's Little Helper	Merrill Whooly
2008	Inconceivable	Lesley Banks
	Red	Mrs. Diane Doust
	Affinity	Miss Helena Ridley
	45 R.P.M.	Caralee Lucas
2009	Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf	Lady in the Car
	First Time Long Time	Maggie	Short film
2010	The Making of Plus One	Kim Owens
	Girlfriend	Celeste
	1001 Ways to Enjoy the Missionary Position	Nora
2011	Vampire	Helga
	Dr. Ketel	Louise
	Today's Headline	Amy	Short film
2012	Sophomore	Miss June Hultz
	Small Apartments	Mrs. Luigiana Ballisteri
	Abigail Harm	Abigail Harm
	I Have to Buy New Shoes	Joanne
2013	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Wiress
2014	Strangely in Love	Sister Sarah
2015	Reversion	Elizabeth
2016	The Dancer	Lili
	Honeyglue	Alice
2018	We Are Boats	Jimmie
	A Young Man with High Potential	Ketura Stantz
	Freaks of Nurture	Mom (voice)	Short film
2019	Spiral Farm	Dianic
2021	Night Raiders	Roberta
2022	Showing Up	Dorothy

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	ABC Afterschool Special	Angela Dunoway	Episode: "The Unforgivable Secret"
1987	Moonlighting	Jackie Wilbourne	Episode: "Take a Left at the Altar"
1988	The Equalizer	Jill O'Connor	Episode: "A Dance on the Dark Side"
1989	Miami Vice	Lisa Madsen	Episode: "Fruit of the Poison Tree"
1989	Tales from the Crypt	Peggy	Episode: "Lover Come Hack to Me"
1989	HBO Storybook Musicals	Narrator	Episode: "The Story of the Dancing Frog"
1989	True Blue	Susan Lizar	Episode: "Pilot: Part 1"
1989–1990	L.A. Law	Alice Hackett	6 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
1990	Kojak	Phyllis	Episode: "None So Blind"
1991	The Hidden Room	Sarah Cole	Episode: "A Type of Love Story" Nominated—CableACE Award for Best Guest Actress in a Dramatic Series
1996–2000	The Outer Limits	Dr. Theresa Givens	2 episodes Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
1996	Duckman	Princess Fallopia (voice)	Episode: "The Road to Dendron"
1998	Stories from My Childhood	The Queen (voice)	Episode: "The Twelve Months & The Snow Girl"
2002	Night Visions	Music Professor	Episode: "The Maze"
2004	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Miranda Cole	Episode: "Weak" Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
2006	Battlestar Galactica	Oracle Selloi	Episode: "Exodus"
2007	WordGirl	Lady Redundant Woman (voice)	Episode: "Lady Redundant Woman"
2009–2013	Phineas and Ferb	Professor Poofenplotz / Additional voices	4 episodes
2014	Hannibal	Katherine Pims	Episode: "Takiawase"
2015	The Blacklist	Tracy Solobotkin	Episode: "The Deer Hunter"
2020	Ratched	Louise	7 episodes
2023	Star Trek: Picard	Vadic	recurring

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	A Month in the Country	Vera Aleksandrovna
1979	Artichoke	Lily-Agnes
1981	A Taste of Honey	Josephine	Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play Nominated—Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play Theatre World Award
1982	Agnes of God	Sister Agnes	Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
1983	Lee Harvey Oswald	Marina	Bayview Playhouse, Toronto, Canada[17]
1983	The Glass Menagerie	Laura Wingfield
1985	A Lie of the Mind	Beth
1986	You Never Can Tell	Dolly Clandon
1987	Pygmalion	Eliza Doolittle	Nominated—Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
1990	Abundance	Bess
1998	Killer Joe	Sharla Smith
2005	The Lark	Joan of Arc
2006–2007	Summer and Smoke	Alma Winemiller
2013	The Two-Character Play	Clare
2017	The Night of the Iguana	Hannah Jelkes

References

External links

• Amanda Plummer at IMDb
• Amanda Plummer at the Internet Broadway Database
• Amanda Plummer at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Article, playbill.com, October 20, 2004; accessed May 6, 2014.
• Profile, hollywood.com (archived); accessed May 6, 2014.
• New York Times article referencing Amanda Plummer, April 28, 1996; accessed May 6, 2014.
• Stephen Capen Interview on Worldguide, Futurist Radio Hour, October 14, 1995.
• Amanda Plummer comments on camera on role in The Two Character Play, June 2013 on YouTube
• New York Times Arts Blog on The Two-Character Play, June 2013; accessed May 5, 2014.
• The Two-Character Play Off-Broadway 2013

На других языках

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[de] Amanda Plummer

Amanda Michael Plummer[1] (* 23. März 1957 in New York) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

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[es] Amanda Plummer

Amanda Michael Plummer (Nueva York, 23 de marzo de 1957)[1] es una actriz estadounidense ganadora del Emmy y del Tony.

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Аманда Майкл Пламмер (англ. Amanda Michael Plummer; род. 23 марта 1957 года, Нью-Йорк, Нью-Йорк, США) — американская актриса.

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