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  Amanda PlummerAKA:
Amanda Michael Plummer
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03/23/1957 Birthplace:
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biography
The daughter of actors Christopher Plummer and Tammy Grimes, Amanda Plummer made an impressive screen debut as Annie opposite Burt Lancaster in the offbeat Western, "Cattle Annie and Little Britches" (1980), and has continued to turn in fine performances on both stage and screen which capitalize on her slightly frail, eccentric charm. She won a Tony, a Drama Desk, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her title role as a pregnant postulant in the rather feverish 1982 Broadway play, "Agnes of God", but her film career has for the most part alternated small roles in important films with larger
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Year
Milestone
1971
At age 14, qualified as a jockey at New York's Belmont track, riding for Alfred Vanderbilt who owned some stables; left racing because of what she perceived as the ruthless treatment of young racehorses
1979
Began acting career apprenticing at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts
1979
Made New York stage debut in "Artichoke" at the Manhattan Theater Club
1980
Feature film debut, "Cattle Annie and Little Britches"
1981
Offered two acclaimed performances in the same Braodway season; starred as pregnant working-class British teen in the revival of "A Taste of Honey" and co-starred in the title role as a pregnant postulant in "Agnes of God"; received two Tony nominations as Lead Actress in a Play for the former and Featured Actress in a Play for the latter; won the award for "Agnes of God"
1982
First major TV role, "The Unforgivable Secret", an "ABC Afterschool Special"
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