Amy Brenneman

Actor

Well known to TV audiences as Dr. Violet Turner on “Private Practice,” Judge Amy Gray on “Judging Amy” (three Emmy nominations, three Golden Globe nominations, Screen Actors Guild nomination) and Janice Licalsi on “NYPD Blue” (SAG Award, two Emmy nominations). Film: The Jane Austen Book Club, Nine Lives, Downloading Nancy, 88 Minutes, Heat, Daylight, Your Friends and Neighbors, Fear, Casper, Mother and Child. Theatre: The Learned Ladies (CSC), God’s Heart (LCT), Sincerity Forever (BACA Downtown), A Nervous Smile (Williamstown), title role in Brecht’s St. Joan of the Stockyards (Yale Rep), her own Mouth Wide Open (A.R.T). Graduate: Harvard University, where she co-founded Cornerstone Theater Company, a touring production company that takes classics to small towns, integrating locals with professional actors. (As of May 2012)

Appears in
Rapture, Blister, Burn