Amanda Wyss
Born: 1960-11-24 in Manhattan Beach, California, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2022
- Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story as Self
- Beyond the Resonator as Professor McMichaels
2021
- The Resonator: Miskatonic U as Professor McMichaels
2020
- Hunter's Moon as Bernice Delaney
2019
- All Rise as Caroline Halliwell
- The Movies That Made Us as Self
- Badland as Alice Hollenbeck
- Triggered
- Rest Stop as Harmony
2018
- The Rookie as Meredith Russell
- Station 19 as Laura
- Big Legend as Dr. Wheeler
2017
- The Capture as Terry
- It Happened Again Last Night as Eileen
- The Sandman as Dr. Amanda Elliott
- The Hatred as Beth Crossan
- The Watcher of Park Ave as Lt. Samantha Warren
2016
- Thing in the Dark as JC
- The Id as Meredith Lane
2013
- Fantasm as Self
2010
- Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self
- Deadly Impact as Julie Mulligan
- The Graves as Darlene
2006
- Dexter as Social Worker
- Never Sleep Again: The Making of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ as Self
- Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven's Nightmares as Narrator
2005
- Monster-in-Law as Tina Gray (archive footage) (uncredited)
2004
2003
- Cold Case as Sonya Witkowski (2004)
2001
- The Division as Sharon
- The Agency as Jennifer Steward
2000
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Donna Marks
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
- The Drew Carey Show as Tina
- University Hospital
1994
- ER as Mrs. Adams
- Desert Steel as Jerri
1993
- Diagnosis: Murder as Maureen
- Walker, Texas Ranger as Alicia
1992
- Highlander: The Series as Randi McFarland
- Bloodfist IV: Die Trying as Shannon
- Gunsmoke: To the Last Man as Lizzie Tewksbury
1991
- Silk Stalkings
- Black Magic Woman as Diane Abbott
- Son of Darkness: To Die For II as Celia
1990
- Shakma as Tracy
- Checkered Flag as Chris Baird Trehearn
1989
- Quantum Leap as Suzanne Elsinger
- Powwow Highway as Rabbit Layton
- The Final Days as Tricia Nixon Cox
- Deadly Innocents as Angela/Andy
1988
- To Die For as Celia Kett
1987
- My Two Dads as Dana
- The New Adventures of Beans Baxter as Mary Ellen
- Independence as Chastity
1986
- Something in Common as Laura Grant
- Firefighter as Marilyn
1985
- Silverado as Phoebe
- Otherworld as Nova
- Better Off Dead... as Beth Truss
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Laura Maples
- A Nightmare on Elm Street as Tina Gray
- My Mother's Secret Life as Tobi Jensen
- No Earthly Reason
1983
- A Killer in the Family as Dannelda Lyons
1982
- Cheers as Beth Curtis
- St. Elsewhere as Pru Dowler
- Cagney & Lacey as Bridgit Cagney
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High as Lisa
- The Powers of Matthew Star
- Teachers Only
1981
- Jessica Novak
- Force: Five as Cindy Lester
- This House Possessed as Holly
- She Drinks a Little as Cindy Scott
- The Other Victim as Kimi Langford
1979
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Laura