May 01, 2020

Hello fans,

I remember today's featured celebrity Amy Brenneman from her hit television series on the CBS - Judging Amy. My mom loved that show and I can still vividly recall her watching it and me getting sucked in to the watching it, too. I didn't realize that she created, produced, and wrote on the show. Wow! And besides that hit, Brenneman has been on a bunch of high profile, hit programs. What a career! Let's check in with the very talented Amy Brenneman.

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Amy Brenneman

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BIRTH DATE: June 22, 1964 in New London, Connecticut, USA

BIRTH NAME: Amy Frederica Brenneman

NICKNAMES Ames

CLAIM TO FAME: Amy Brenneman is an American actress, writer, and producer, best known for creating and starring as Judge Amy Gray in the CBS drama series Judging Amy (1999-2005). For her performance, she was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.

FAMILY LIFE: In 1995, Brenneman married director Brad Silberling. They have two children, Charlotte Tucker and Bodhi Russell.

INFO: Born to Frederica Joanne, the first female Senior Judge on the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut, and Russell Langdon Brenneman Jr., an environmental lawyer.

Has two older brothers. Matthew, a lawyer; and Andrew, an interactive software producer.

She participated in theatre as a teenager, both in school and with a local theater group.

Graduated from Glastonbury High School, Glastonbury, Connecticut, in 1982.

Graduated from Harvard University in 1986, majoring in comparative religion.

While at Harvard, she co-founded Cornerstone Theatre Company, with which she traveled for several years after graduation.

Pro-choice activist.

Brenneman is an Episcopalian.

Brenneman is also a strong supporter of more restrictive gun laws.

TRIVIA: Is one of the founding members of the Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc. in Los Angeles together with her husband Brad Silberling.

Brenneman began her career in the short-lived CBS series Middle Ages in 1992.

For her first major role as mob-connected uniformed officer Janice Licalsi on the ABC police drama series NYPD Blue, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1994 and for Outstanding Guest Actress the following year.

Worked with siblings Tyne Daly on Judging Amy (1999) and Tyne's brother Tim Daly on Private Practice (2007).

In 1999, Brenneman became creator and executive producer of her own television series Judging Amy, in which she played the title character. The show's concept was based on the real-life experiences of her mother, Frederica Brenneman, as a superior court judge in the state of Connecticut. Frederica Brenneman was one of Harvard Law School's first female graduates and became a juvenile court judge in Connecticut when Amy was 3 years old.

In 2002, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.

Brenneman was cast as Violet Turner in the Grey's Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice (2007-2013).

In February 2007, she was part of the all-star benefit reading of "The Gift of Peace" at UCLA's Freud Playhouse, featuring Ed Asner, Barbara Bain, George Coe, Wendie Malick, and James Pickens, Jr.; The play was an open appeal and fundraiser for passage of U.S. House Resolution 808, which sought to establish a Cabinet-level "Department of Peace" in the United States government, funded by a two percent diversion of The Pentagon's annual budget.

Was cast in HBO drama series The Leftovers (2014-2017) opposite Justin Theroux.

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW: After a very busy 2019, Brenneman was filming the TV Movie The Old Man with stars Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow. No word if the filming was finished before the pandemic shut productions down.

CREDITS:

2019 Tell Me Your Secrets (TV Series)...Mary
- Episode #1.10 ... Mary
- Episode #1.4 ... Mary
- Episode #1.3 ... Mary
- Episode #1.2 ... Mary
- Pilot ... Mary

2019 Goliath (TV Series)...Diana Blackwood
- Joy Division (2019) ... Diana Blackwood
- Conscious Uncoupling (2019) ... Diana Blackwood
- Fer-De-Lance (2019) ... Diana Blackwood
- Argus 2: Battledome (2019) ... Diana Blackwood
- Good Morning, Central Valley (2019) ... Diana Blackwood
- Happiness from the Ground Up (2019) ... Diana Blackwood
- The Subsidence Adventure (2019) ... Diana Blackwood

2019 Foster Boy...Kim Trainer

2019 Her Mind in Pieces...Mother (segment "Here Now")

2019/I Peel...Lucille

2018 Monster Challenge (Short)

2018 Jane the Virgin (TV Series)...Donna
- Chapter Eighty (2018) ... Donna

2017/I Here Now (Short)

2017 The Get (TV Movie)...Ellen

2014-2017 The Leftovers (TV Series)...Laurie Garvey
All 28 episodes

2017 Veep (TV Series)...Regina Pell
- Library (2017) ... Regina Pell

2016 No Tomorrow (TV Series)...Amy Brenneman
- No Holds Barred (2016) ... Amy Brenneman (uncredited)

2016 In the Shadows of the Rainbow (Short)

2014-2015 Reign (TV Series)...Marie de Guise
- The Price (2015) ... Marie de Guise
- Forbidden (2015) ... Marie de Guise
- The Consummation (2014) ... Marie de Guise

2013 The Face of Love...Ann

2013 Words and Pictures...Elspeth

2007-2013 Private Practice (TV Series)...Dr. Violet Turner
111 episodes

2011 Robot Chicken (TV Series)...Dorothy Gale / Queen Toadstool / Frankenberry's Mother
- The Departy Monster (2011) ... Dorothy Gale / Queen Toadstool / Frankenberry's Mother (voice)

2009 Mother and Child...Dr. Eleanor Stone

2008 Downloading Nancy...Carol

2007 The Jane Austen Book Club...Sylvia

2007 Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)...Dr. Violet Turner
- The Other Side of This Life, Part 2 (2007) ... Dr. Violet Turner
- The Other Side of This Life, Part 1 (2007) ... Dr. Violet Turner

2007 88 Minutes...Shelly Barnes

2006 Altered Boy (Short)...Bookstore patron (as Amy Brennaman)

1999-2005 Judging Amy (TV Series)...Amy Gray
All 138 episodes

2005 Nine Lives...Lorna

2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events...Mrs. Baudelaire (uncredited)

2003 Off the Map...Adult Bo

2000 Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her...Detective Kathy Faber (segment "Love Waits For Kathy")

1999 Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist (TV Movie)...Mary Cassatt

1999 ATF (TV Movie)...Agent Robin O'Brien

1998-1999 Frasier (TV Series)...Faye Moskowitz
- Shutout in Seattle: Part 2 (1999) ... Faye Moskowitz
- Shutout in Seattle: Part 1 (1999) ... Faye Moskowitz
- When a Man Loves Two Women (1999) ... Faye Moskowitz
- Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz (1998) ... Faye Moskowitz

1999 The Suburbans...Grace

1998 Your Friends & Neighbors...Mary

1998 City of Angels...Angel in library at computers (uncredited)

1997 Lesser Prophets...Annie

1997 Nevada...Chrysty

1997 Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (TV Series)...Lauren Simone
- A Trophied Duck (1997) ... Lauren Simone (voice)

1996 Daylight...Madelyne Thompson

1996 Fear...Laura Walker

1995 Heat...Eady

1995 Casper...Amelia

1995 Bye Bye Love...Susan

1993-1994 NYPD Blue (TV Series)...Officer Janice Licalsi / Det. Janice Licalsi
24 episodes

1992 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)...Amy Wainwright
- A Christmas Secret (1992) ... Amy Wainwright

1992 Middle Ages (TV Series)...Blanche
- Murmur of the Heart (1992) ... Blanche
- Night Moves (1992) ... Blanche
- Pygmalian in the Python (1992) ... Blanche
- The Pig in the Python (1992) ... Blanche

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