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Though she hailed from a family steeped in the law, actress Amy Brenneman displayed her natural gifts for... (Learn more)

Top Projects: Judging Amy, NYPD Blue, Private Practice (View All)

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Notes on Amy Brenneman

"People always talk about how they don't like shooting love scenes. I really don't mind it. I don't know what that says about me." - Brenneman to Us Weekly, February 1995

"When people get upset you know something is happening. But why do something if you're not going to touch a nerve?" - Brenneman in USA Today, Feb. 22, 1994

Brenneman is one of the co-founders of the Cornerstone Theater Company.

Brenneman on some critics' assertion that "Judging Amy" (CBS) is too much like NBC's hit drama "Providence": "What's infuriating is, why can't there be two shows about women? There can be a bunch of shows about male cops and nobody thinks twice about it." - quoted in USA Today, Nov. 2, 1999

Brenneman's first big break was in a Tampax commercial

On her role as producer for "Judging Amy" (CBS): "I do find it's a very different part of my brain that works. Producing is the bird's-eye-view, the big picture, while acting is purely moment-to-moment. It helps cut down on the paranoia that actors usually feel that things are going on they don't know about. It's about information, when I don't have information, I can go into a paranoid, grouchy place, you can kind of breathe easier." - Brenneman to the Daily News, Oct. 13, 1999

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Also known as

Birth Name : Amy Frederica Brenneman

Born

June, 22 1964 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Education

  • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: Took one semester off to study native dance in Nepal; while at Harvard, she co-founded Cornerstone Theater Company

Professions

actor