Trivia

She and her father both received Emmy nominations in 2005. She won but he did not.

Two of her first four roles were in films adapted from John Irving novels: The World According to Garp (1982) and The Hotel New Hampshire (1984).

Daughter of Christopher Plummer and Tammy Grimes.

When she was a girl Amanda wanted to be a jockey. When she was 14, she passed an audition at the Belmont track, riding for Alfred Vanderbilt's stables. Of that she said: "Those were the greatest years of my life."

Amanda is the only Tony winner whose parents are also both Tony winners. Father Christopher Plummer has been nominated 7 times, winning twice: 1974 for "Cyrano"(Lead Actor in a Musical) and 1997 for "Barrymore"(Lead Actor in a Play). Mother Tammy Grimes has 2 nominations/wins: 1961 for "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"(Featured Actress in a Musical) and 1970 for "Private Lives"(Lead Actress in a Play).

Great-great-granddaughter of John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, prime minister of Canada.

Won Broadway's 1982 Tony Award for Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Agnes of God." That same year, she also received a Tony nomination as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of "A Taste of Honey" -- making her one of only three actors (Dana Ivey and Kate Burton are the others) to receive two Tony acting nominations in the same year. In 1987, she received another Tony nomination as Best Actress (Play) for her role as Eliza Doolittle in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," opposite Peter O'Toole's Henry Higgins.

Although she played Timothy Hutton's younger sister in Daniel (1983), she is more than three years his senior in real life.

Stepdaughter of Elaine Taylor.