Amanda Wyss

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1960-11-24

Place of Birth

Manhattan Beach, California, USA
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Amanda Wyss

Biography

Amanda Wyss (born November 24, 1960) is an American film and television actress. She began her career in the early 1980s in teen roles including Lisa in the coming-of-age comedy film Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Tina Gray in the slasher film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and Beth in the film Better Off Dead (1985). She had a supporting role as investigative reporter Randi McFarland in the television series Highlander: The Series (1992–1993). She played Woody's ex-girlfriend, Beth, in two episodes of Cheers in the mid-1980s.

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Acting History

2022
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story as Self
2022
Beyond the Resonator as Professor McMichaels
2021
The Resonator: Miskatonic U as Professor McMichaels
2020
Hunter's Moon as Bernice Delaney
2019
The Movies That Made Us as Self
2019
Badland as Alice Hollenbeck
2019
Rest Stop as Harmony
2019
All Rise as Caroline Halliwell
2019
Triggered
2018
The Rookie as Meredith Russell
2018
Big Legend as Dr. Wheeler
2018
Station 19 as Laura
2017
The Watcher of Park Ave as Lt. Samantha Warren
2017
It Happened Again Last Night as Eileen
2017
The Hatred as Beth Crossan
2017
The Capture as Terry
2017
The Sandman as Dr. Amanda Elliott
2016
Thing in the Dark as JC
2016
The Id as Meredith Lane
2013
Fantasm as Self
2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self
2010
Deadly Impact as Julie Mulligan
2010
The Graves as Darlene
2006
Dexter as Social Worker
2006
Never Sleep Again: The Making of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ as Self
2006
Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven's Nightmares as Narrator
2005
Monster-in-Law as Tina Gray (archive footage) (uncredited)
2004
Fallacy
2003
Cold Case as Sonya Witkowski (2004)
2001
The Agency as Jennifer Steward
2001
The Division as Sharon
2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Donna Marks
2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Tina Vincent
2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Tina
1999
Judging Amy as Denise Wharton
1998
Marry Me or Die as Nora Dawkins
1997
Strategic Command as Michelle Harding
1996
Profiler as Lee Armstrong
1995
JAG as Helene Dugan
1995
JAG as Diane Akers
1995
The Drew Carey Show as Tina
1995
University Hospital
1994
ER as Mrs. Adams
1994
Desert Steel as Jerri
1993
Diagnosis: Murder as Maureen
1993
Walker, Texas Ranger as Alicia
1992
Bloodfist IV: Die Trying as Shannon
1992
Highlander: The Series as Randi McFarland
1992
Highlander: The Series as Randi MacFarland
1992
Gunsmoke: To the Last Man as Lizzie Tewksbury
1991
Silk Stalkings
1991
Black Magic Woman as Diane Abbott
1991
Son of Darkness: To Die For II as Celia
1990
Shakma as Tracy
1990
Checkered Flag as Chris Baird Trehearn
1989
The Final Days as Tricia Nixon Cox
1989
Deadly Innocents as Angela/Andy
1989
Quantum Leap as Suzanne Elsinger
1989
Powwow Highway as Rabbit Layton
1988
To Die For as Celia Kett
1987
My Two Dads
1987
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter as Mary Ellen
1987
Independence as Chastity
1986
Something in Common as Laura Grant
1986
Firefighter as Marilyn
1985
Better Off Dead... as Beth Truss
1985
Silverado as Phoebe
1985
Otherworld
1984
A Nightmare on Elm Street as Tina Gray
1984
Murder, She Wrote as Laura Maples
1984
No Earthly Reason
1984
My Mother's Secret Life as Tobi Jensen
1983
A Killer in the Family as Dannelda Lyons
1982
St. Elsewhere as Pru Dowler
1982
Cheers as Beth Curtis
1982
The Powers of Matthew Star
1982
Fast Times at Ridgemont High as Lisa
1982
Teachers Only
1982
Cagney & Lacey as Bridgit Cagney
1981
Jessica Novak
1981
The Other Victim as Kimi Langford
1981
She Drinks a Little as Cindy Scott
1981
Force: Five as Cindy Lester
1981
This House Possessed as Holly
1979
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Laura