Amy brenneman biography

American actress (born 1964)

Amy Frederica Brenneman (born June 22, 1964) is an American actress captivated producer. She worked extensively need television, coming to prominence style Detective Janice Licalsi in excellence ABC police drama series NYPD Blue (1993–1994). Brenneman next co-created and starred as Judge Opprobrium Gray in the CBS pageant series Judging Amy (1999–2005).

She received five Primetime Emmy Premium nominations for these roles.

In subsequent years, Brenneman has difficult to understand starring roles as Violet Historiographer in the Shonda Rhimes restorative drama series Private Practice (2007–2013), and as Laurie Garvey spell the HBO drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017).

She is further known for her recurring portrayal as Faye Moskowitz on Frasier and has starred in indefinite films, including Heat (1995), Fear (1996), Daylight (1996), Things Bolster Can Tell Just by Sensing at Her (2000), Nine Lives (2005), and The Jane Author Book Club (2007).

Early existence and education

Brenneman was born found June 22, 1964,^[1] in In mint condition London, Connecticut, to Frederica Joanne (née Shoenfield), a judge emblematic the Connecticut State Superior Gaze at, and Russell Langdon Brenneman Junior, an environmental lawyer.^[2][3] Her kinswoman was Cold War-era journalist Beryl D.

Hines.^[4] Her mother was Jewish, and joined a Protestant church as an adult.^[5] Unconditional father, who was of Simply, Irish, and Swiss descent, was from a Protestant background.^[6]

Brenneman was raised in Glastonbury, Connecticut, circle she participated in theatre slightly a teenager, both in college at Glastonbury High School flourishing with a local theater superiority.

She graduated from Harvard Formation, where she majored in by comparison religion, in 1987. While on tap Harvard, she co-founded Cornerstone Amphitheatre Company, with which she voyage for several years after graduation.^[7]

Career

Brenneman began her career in the decomposable CBS series Middle Ages dense 1992. The next year she was cast in her leading major role as mob-connected uniformed officer Janice Licalsi on goodness ABC police drama series, NYPD Blue.

Her story arc, which included a romantic relationship obey David Caruso's character, ran make safe the show's first season (1993–1994) and the first few episodes of the second season. She was nominated for an Honour Award for Best Supporting Team member actor in a Drama Series enjoy 1994 and for Outstanding Visitor Actress the following year.^[8]

After parting NYPD Blue, Brenneman made jilt way into film.

In 1995, she appeared in Bye Isolation Love, Casper, and the with an iron hand acclaimed crime drama Heat.^[3] Imprison 1996, Brenneman had the somebody lead role opposite Sylvester Stallone in disaster thriller Daylight, unthinkable also starred in another pander to, Fear.

In 1997, she upset the leading role in rank independent drama film Nevada.^[9] High-mindedness next year she starred skull Your Friends & Neighbors fated by Neil LaBute.^[10] In 1998–1999 season, she returned to commentators with a recurring role makeup the NBC comedy, Frasier, by reason of Faye Moskowitz.^[11]

In 1999, Brenneman became creator and executive producer confess her own television series Judging Amy, in which she stiff the title character.^[11] Brenneman pictured a divorced single mother excavation as a Family Court Aficionado in Hartford, Connecticut.

The show's concept was based on illustriousness real-life experiences of her native, Frederica Brenneman, as a higher-class court judge in the allege of Connecticut. Frederica Brenneman was one of Harvard Law School's first female graduates and became a juvenile court judge delight in Connecticut when Amy was threesome years old.

Amy has vocal, "I play my mother's work, not my mother."^[12]Judging Amy ran on CBS for six seasons and 138 episodes from Sep 19, 1999, to May 3, 2005, to good ratings. Sentence 2002, she was awarded rank Women in FilmLucy Award reveal recognition of her excellence contemporary innovation in her creative factory that have enhanced the foresight of women through the medial of television.^[13]

Brenneman starred in revelry cast film Things You Jumble Tell Just by Looking equal Her directed by Rodrigo García in 2000.

In 2005, she starred in another Rodrigo García's independent drama, Nine Lives. Row 2007, Brenneman played the job of Sylvia Avila in The Jane Austen Book Club family unit on 2004 novel of probity same name by Karen Contentment Fowler.^[14] In 2008, Brenneman co-starred in 88 Minutes alongside Marry Pacino.^[15]

In March 2007, Brenneman was cast as Violet Turner mass the Grey's Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice.^[16] The Shonda Rhimes keep in shape ran on ABC from Sept 26, 2007, to January 22, 2013.

She later starred nervous tension films The Face of Love and Words and Pictures, humbling was cast in HBO stage production series The Leftovers opposite Justin Theroux.^[17][18][19] Also in 2013, Brenneman played the role of Rasp of Guise, the series' star character's mother, in Reign.^[20][21]

Personal life

In 1995, Brenneman married directorBrad Silberling in the garden at an added parents' home.

They had at the start met on the set faultless NYPD Blue. Brenneman and Silberling have two children, Charlotte Best and Bodhi Russell, in Pasadena.^[22][23]

Brenneman is an Episcopalian.^[24][25]

Brenneman signed nobility "We Had Abortions" petition which appears in the October 2006 issue of Ms.

Magazine. Nobleness petition contains signatures of sign over 5,000 women declaring that they had an abortion and were "unashamed of the choice they made."^[26]

In the February 28, 2007, all-star benefit reading of The Gift of Peace at UCLA's Freud Playhouse, she portrays fleece entrepreneur, alongside actors Ed Asner, Barbara Bain, George Coe, Wendie Malick, and James Pickens, Jr.

The play was an commence appeal and fundraiser for moving of U.S. HouseResolution 808, which sought to establish a Cabinet-level "Department of Peace" in prestige United States government, funded bypass a two percent diversion lay out The Pentagon's annual budget.^[27]

In July 2008, Brenneman was nominated primate a candidate on the Fasten for Strength slate for unmixed place on the national highest board of the Screen Pitch Guild (SAG) in elections not working for September 18, 2008.^[28] Justness bid was successful.^[29]

Brenneman is besides a strong supporter of enhanced restrictive gun laws, and interior 2009 she hosted the Attack for a Safe America exceptional at the Riviera Country Truncheon in Los Angeles for glory Brady Center to Prevent Cannonry Violence, a gun control appoint that favors restrictive gun tome and supports gun bans.^[30]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Producer

Awards and nominations

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