Amanda Wyss

Actor Nov 24 (age 65) Manhattan Beach, California, USA 1979–2022 (43 year career)

6.0 avg rating

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, i…

Known For

Film

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Tina Gray

Film

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Lisa

Film

Monster-in-Law

Tina Gray (archive footage) (uncredited)

Film

Silverado

Phoebe

Film

Better Off Dead...

Beth Truss

Film

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

Self

Film

Big Legend

Dr. Wheeler

Film

Badland

Alice Hollenbeck

Filmography

Acting (81)

Movies (50)

Beyond the Resonator

2022

as Professor McMichaels

5.0

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

2022

as Self

6.4

The Resonator: Miskatonic U

2021

as Professor McMichaels

Hunter's Moon

as Bernice Delaney

Badland

as Alice Hollenbeck

Triggered

Rest Stop

as Harmony

Big Legend

as Dr. Wheeler

The Watcher of Park Ave

2017

as Lt. Samantha Warren

The Sandman

2017

as Dr. Amanda Elliott

5.6

It Happened Again Last Night

as Eileen

The Hatred

as Beth Crossan

The Capture

as Terry

Thing in the Dark

as JC

The Id

as Meredith Lane

Fantasm

as Self

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

as Self

The Graves

as Darlene

Deadly Impact

as Julie Mulligan

Never Sleep Again: The Making of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’

2006

as Self

8.2

Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven's Nightmares

2006

as Narrator

5.5

Monster-in-Law

2005

as Tina Gray (archive footage) (uncredited)

Fallacy

Marry Me or Die

as Nora Dawkins

Strategic Command

as Michelle Harding

Desert Steel

as Jerri

Gunsmoke: To the Last Man

1992

as Lizzie Tewksbury

7.2

Bloodfist IV: Die Trying

as Shannon

Black Magic Woman

as Diane Abbott

Son of Darkness: To Die For II

as Celia

Shakma

as Tracy

Checkered Flag

as Chris Baird Trehearn

Deadly Innocents

as Angela/Andy

Powwow Highway

as Rabbit Layton

The Final Days

as Tricia Nixon Cox

To Die For

as Celia Kett

Independence

as Chastity

Something in Common

as Laura Grant

Firefighter

as Marilyn

Silverado

as Phoebe

Better Off Dead...

as Beth Truss

A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984

as Tina Gray

7.3

My Mother's Secret Life

1984

as Tobi Jensen

7.0

No Earthly Reason

1984

A Killer in the Family

1983

as Dannelda Lyons

6.5

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1982

as Lisa

6.8

The Other Victim

1981

as Kimi Langford

Force: Five

1981

as Cindy Lester

4.0

She Drinks a Little

1981

as Cindy Scott

This House Possessed

1981

as Holly

5.7

Television (31)

All Rise

2019

as Caroline Halliwell

7.4

The Movies That Made Us

as Self

The Rookie

as Meredith Russell

Station 19

as Laura

Dexter

as Social Worker

Cold Case

as Sonya Witkowski (2004)

The Agency

as Jennifer Steward

The Division

as Sharon

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Donna Marks

Judging Amy

as Denise Wharton

Profiler

as Lee Armstrong

JAG

as Helene Dugan

The Drew Carey Show

as Tina

University Hospital

as Mrs. Adams

Diagnosis: Murder

as Maureen

Walker, Texas Ranger

as Alicia

Highlander: The Series

as Randi MacFarland

Silk Stalkings

Quantum Leap

as Suzanne Elsinger

The New Adventures of Beans Baxter

as Mary Ellen

My Two Dads

Otherworld

Murder, She Wrote

as Laura Maples

Cheers

as Beth Curtis

St. Elsewhere

as Pru Dowler

Cagney & Lacey

as Bridgit Cagney

Teachers Only

The Powers of Matthew Star

Jessica Novak

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

1979

as Laura

6.9