Amanda Plummer was born on March 23, 1957 in New York City, New York, USA. Her parents are actors Christopher Plummer and Tammy Grimes. She has two siblings, actors Christopher Plummer Jr. and Amanda Plummer. She attended the High School of Performing Arts and graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Her acting career began in the early 1980s with roles in television movies and miniseries. She made her film debut in 1982 with a small role in the film Daniel. She has since appeared in such films as The Fisher King (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), and My Friend Dahmer (2017).
Plummer has been married twice. Her first marriage was to actor Leland Orser from 1988 to 1994. Her second marriage is to actor Viggo Mortensen, with whom she has been married since 1997. She has one child from each marriage.
Plummer has a net worth of $5 million. She has earned her wealth through her successful acting career.
General Info
Full Name
Amanda Plummer
Date Of Birth
March 23, 1957
Height
1.63 m
Profession
Voice Actor
Education
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Middlebury College
Family
Parents
Christopher Plummer, Tammy Grimes
Accomplishments
Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for Be...
Nominations
Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Drama Desk Award fo...
Movies
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Pulp Fiction, The Fisher King, Ken Park, Butterfly Kiss, So I Married an Axe Murderer, My Life Without Me, Needful Things, A Simple Wish, Get a Clue, Freeway, The Prophecy, Satan's Little Helper, Honeyglue, 8½ Women, The Million Dollar Hotel, Cattle Annie and Little...
Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.
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I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.
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I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.
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I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.
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I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.
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I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that.
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Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a face, nor would they get a commercial value, necessarily - and I don't mean that in a good way or a bad way.
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I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.
Facts
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Fact
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Amanda's middle name is Michael, after her godmother, Michael Learned.
She and her father both received Emmy nominations in 2005. She won but he did not.
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Won Broadway's 1982 Tony Award for Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Agnes of God." That same year, she also received a Tony nomination as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of "A Taste of Honey" -- making her one of only three actors (Dana Ivey and Kate Burton are the others) to receive two Tony acting nominations in the same year. In 1987, she received another Tony nomination as Best Actress (Play) for her role as Eliza Doolittle in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," opposite Peter O'Toole's Henry Higgins.
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Nominated in 1981-1982 for a Tony award for outstanding performance by an actress in a play for "A Taste Of Honey".
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Great-great-granddaughter of John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, prime minister of Canada.
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When she was a girl Amanda wanted to be a jockey. When she was 14, she passed an audition at the Belmont track, riding for Alfred Vanderbilt's stables. Of that she said: "Those were the greatest years of my life."
