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
- Beyond the Resonator as Professor McMichaels
- Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story as Self
2021
- The Resonator: Miskatonic U as Professor McMichaels
2020
- Hunter's Moon as Bernice Delaney
2019
- All Rise as Caroline Halliwell
- Badland as Alice Hollenbeck
- The Movies That Made Us as Self
- Rest Stop as Harmony
- Triggered
2018
- The Rookie as Meredith Russell
- Station 19 as Laura
- Big Legend as Dr. Wheeler
2017
- The Sandman as Dr. Amanda Elliott
- The Hatred as Beth Crossan
- It Happened Again Last Night as Eileen
- The Capture as Terry
- The Watcher of Park Ave as Lt. Samantha Warren
2016
- The Id as Meredith Lane
- Thing in the Dark as JC
2013
- Fantasm as Self
2010
- The Graves as Darlene
- Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self
- Deadly Impact as Julie Mulligan
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
- Gunsmoke: To the Last Man as Lizzie Tewksbury
- Bloodfist IV: Die Trying as Shannon
1991
- Silk Stalkings
- Son of Darkness: To Die For II as Celia
- Black Magic Woman as Diane Abbott
1990
- Shakma as Tracy
- Checkered Flag as Chris Baird Trehearn
1989
- Quantum Leap as Suzanne Elsinger
- Deadly Innocents as Angela/Andy
- The Final Days as Tricia Nixon Cox
- Powwow Highway as Rabbit Layton
1988
- To Die For as Celia Kett
1987
- My Two Dads
- 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
- Better Off Dead... as Beth Truss
- Otherworld
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
- Force: Five as Cindy Lester
- The Other Victim as Kimi Langford
- She Drinks a Little as Cindy Scott
- This House Possessed as Holly
- Jessica Novak
1979
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Laura