Amanda Plummer

Plummer was nominated for a BAFTA Award for her role in Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991) and gained further recognition for her role in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994). Other film credits include So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993), The Prophecy (1995), Freeway (1996), A Simple Wish (1997), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), and Showing Up (2022). Plummer also has had an extensive stage career, making her Broadway debut in 1981, as Josephine in A Taste of Honey, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She won a Tony Award in 1982 for her performance in Agnes of God. She has also appeared extensively in productions of the works of Tennessee Williams and starred in the original Off-Broadway production of Killer Joe in 1998. On television, Plummer was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her recurring role on L.A. Later, she won the award three times, once for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special for the television film Miss Rose White (1992), and twice for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her guest roles in The Outer Limits (1996) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2005). She was most recently nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Guest Starring Role on Television for her recurring role in Star Trek: Picard (2023).

Amanda Plummer studied at Middlebury College, Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and United Nations International School. The recorded working language is English. Distinctions recorded are Theatre World Award, Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

• Birth Name — Amanda Michael Plummer • Born — 23 March 1957 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1977–present • Father — Christopher Plummer • Mother — Tammy Grimes • Relatives — Isabella Mary Abbott (paternal grandmother) Elaine Taylor (stepmother)

Plummer was born on March 23, 1957, in New York City, the only child of American actress Tammy Grimes and Canadian actor Christopher Plummer. 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. 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.

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). Her 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. 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 Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (1987, with Peter O'Toole and Osmund Bullock, for which she received her third Tony Award nomination, this time for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play). Her off-Broadway plays include as 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. In 1996, Plummer won an Emmy Award for her guest appearance on the episode "A Stitch in Time" of The Outer Limits. 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. Her 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. 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. In 2020, Plummer was featured in the Netflix drama series Ratched. Plummer plays Vadic, the main villain of the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard, in 2023.

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

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1982 — ABC Afterschool Special — Angela Dunoway — Episode: "The Unforgivable Secret" • 1984 — data-sort-value="Dollmaker, The" | The Dollmaker — Mamie Childers — Television film • 1987 — Moonlighting — Jackie Wilbourne — Episode: "Take a Left at the Altar" • 1988 — data-sort-value="Equalizer, The" | The Equalizer — Jill O'Connor — Episode: "A Dance on the Dark Side" • 1988 — Gryphon — Ms. Annette Ferenczi — Television film • 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" • 1989–90 — L.A. Law — Alice Hackett — 6 episodes • 1990 — Kojak — Phyllis — Episode: "None So Blind" • 1991 — data-sort-value="Hidden Room, The" | The Hidden Room — Sarah Cole — Episode: "A Type of Love Story" • 1992 — Sands of Time — Sister Graziella — Television film • 1992 — Miss Rose White — Lusia Burke — Television film • 1993 — Last Light — Lillian Burke — Television film • 1993 — Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica — Cara Clausen — Television film • 1996,2000 — data-sort-value="Outer Limits, The" | The Outer Limits — Dr. Theresa Givens — 2 episodes • 1996 — Duckman — Princess Fallopia — Voice, episode: "The Road to Dendron" • 1996 — data-sort-value="Right To Remain Silent, The" | The Right To Remain Silent — Paulina Marcos — Television film • 1996 — Don't Look Back — Bridget — Television film • 1996 — Under the Piano — Franny Basilio — Television film • 1998 — Stories from My Childhood — The Queen — Voice, episode: "The Twelve Months & The Snow Girl" • 1999 — data-sort-value="Apartment Complex, The" | The Apartment Complex — Miss Chenille — Television film • 2002 — Night Visions — Music Professor — Episode: "The Maze" • 2002 — Get a Clue — Miss Kim Dawson — Television film • 2004 — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Miranda Cole — Episode: "Weak" • 2006 — Battlestar Galactica — Oracle Selloi — Episode: "Exodus" • 2007 — WordGirl — Lady Redundant Woman — Voice, episode: "Lady Redundant Woman" • 2009–13 — Phineas and Ferb — Professor Poofenplotz — Voice, 3 episodes • 2014 — Hannibal — Katherine Pims — Episode: "Takiawase" • 2015 — data-sort-value="Blacklist, The" | The Blacklist — Tracy Solobotkin — Episode: "The Deer Hunter" • 2020 — Ratched — Louise — 7 episodes • 2023 — Star Trek: Picard — Captain Vadic — 6 episodes

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1978 — A Midsummer's Night Dream — Robin Starveling — Williamstown Theatre Festival, Massachusetts • Gossip — Anna • Wild Oats — Jane • The Overcoat — Bag Lady • 1979 — Artichoke — Lily-Agnes — New York City Center, Off-Broadway • 1979 — data-sort-value="Month in the Country, A" | A Month in the Country — Vera Aleksandrovna — 23rd Street Theatre, Off-Broadway • 1980 — The Member of the Wedding — Frankie Addams — Hartford Stage, Connecticut • 1980–81 — Alice in Concert — Performer — The Public Theater, Off-Broadway • 1981 — data-sort-value="Taste of Honey, A" | A Taste of Honey — Josephine — Century Theatre, Broadway • 1982 — The Wake of Jamey Foster — Pixrose Wilson — Hartford Stage, Connecticut • 1982–83 — Agnes of God — Sister Agnes — Music Box Theatre, Broadway • 1983 — Lee Harvey Oswald — Marina — Bayview Playhouse, Toronto, Canada • Romeo and Juliet — Juliet — Mandell Weiss Theatre, La Jolla, San Diego • 1983–84 — data-sort-value="Glass Menagerie, The" | The Glass Menagerie — Laura Wingfield — Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway • 1984 — As You Like It — Celia — Mandell Weiss Theatre, La Jolla, San Diego • 1985–86 — data-sort-value="Lie of the Mind, A" | A Lie of the Mind — Beth — Promenade Theatre, Broadway • 1986–87 — You Never Can Tell — Dolly Clandon — Circle in the Square Theatre, Broadway • 1987 — Pygmalion — Eliza Doolittle — Plymouth Theatre, Broadway • The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore — Blackie — WPA Theater, Off-Broadway • 1988 — Two Rooms — Lainie Wells — Mandell Weiss Theatre, La Jolla, San Diego • 1990 — Abundance — Bess — New York City Center, Off-Broadway • 1998–99 — Killer Joe — Sharla Smith — SoHo Playhouse, Off-Broadway • 2003 — The Exonerated — Sunny Jacobs — Bleecker Street Theatre, Off-Broadway • Uncle Vanya — Sonya — McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey • Mandell Weiss Theatre, La Jolla, San Diego • 2005 — data-sort-value="Lark, The" | The Lark — Joan of Arc — Festival Theatre, Stratford, Ontario • 2006–07 — Summer and Smoke — Alma Winemiller — Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey • 2013 — data-sort-value="Two-Character Play, The" | The Two-Character Play — Clare — New World Stages, Off-Broadway • 2017 — data-sort-value="Night of the Iguana, The" | The Night of the Iguana — Hannah Jelkes — American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts • 2018 — Talisman Roses — Ethel — Provincetown Theater, Massachusetts

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1997 — Hercules — Clotho

• Article, playbill.com, October 20, 2004. Retrieved May 6, 2014. (archived) • New York Times article referencing Amanda Plummer, April 28, 1996. Retrieved May 6, 2014. • Stephen Capen Interview on Worldguide, Futurist Radio Hour, October 14, 1995. (archived) * • New York Times Arts Blog on The Two-Character Play, June 2013. Retrieved May 5, 2014. • The Two-Character Play Off-Broadway 2013 (archived)