Amy Brenneman
Amy Frederica Brenneman ( born June 22, 1964 in New London, Connecticut) is an American film and television actress. She became famous especially by starring in the imagined and produced by her series Judging Amy and her role as Violet Turner in the television series Private Practice.
Life
Brenneman was born in 1964 as the third child of a judge and a lawyer. Your study of religion at Harvard University, she graduated in 1987 successfully.
At first she was at the theater and had worked in 1992 their first appearance in a television series. Her breakthrough came with the series NYPD Blue, in which she played the role of Officer Janice Licalsi 1993-1994. During the filming, she met the director Brad Silberling, with whom she has been married since 1995. They have two children (* 2001, 2005 ).
From the mid- 1990s, she also took on roles in movies. So she was seen on the side of Robert De Niro in Heat, playing alongside Sylvester Stallone starred in the movie Daylight.
1999 created and produced it the successful family series Judging Amy, in which she herself played the lead role of Amy Gray. According to their own statements, this role was in character strongly influenced by Brenne Mans mother as well as by his own experiences from their childhood. The series ran in the U.S. over six seasons and brought the CBS good ratings. Amy Brenneman has been nominated several times for an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
From 2007 to the end of the series in 2013 Brenneman played the role of psychiatrist Dr. Violet Turner in the series Private Practice.