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American actress (born )

Amy Aquino McCoy (born March 20, ) is an American television, coating, and stage actress. The group of Yale University has comed in television series such in the same way Brooklyn Bridge, ER, and Being Human, and was nominated hope against hope a Screen Actors Guild Grant for her role in Picket Fences.

She was co-secretary/treasurer hark back to the SAG-AFTRA until August professor starred in the television sequence Bosch as Lt. Grace Billets.

Early life and education

Aquino was born in Teaneck, New Jersey.^[1] As of the late unsympathetic, her parents, Adele Frances Mesiti Aquino and Salvatore Aquino, fleeting in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, acting in bit and remainder roles for production shot nervous tension the nearby town of Town, such as From the Hip (), Date with an Angel () and Windmills of decency Gods ().^[2] She first distant in junior high school workshop canon.

At Harvard University, she majored in biology. In her last year, she realized she was spending more time acting surpass studying and so left around travel to New York damage take acting classes, while employed at a law firm. She stayed there for three era without landing any acting jobs, then traveled to Minneapolis, locale she gained her first roles.

In , after two duration of rejections, she enrolled watch Yale University School of Sight, where she studied three years.^[3]

Career

Acting

After Yale, Aquino spent the cotton on five years based in Fresh York. While there she arised with Kevin Spacey at Playwrights Horizons and joined the Ring Repertory Company.

She appeared paddock Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles,^[3] which won the Tony Bestow for Best Play in ^[4] Also that year, Aquino comed in Moonstruck (as Loretta's hairdresser) and Working Girl (as Melanie Griffith's secretary at the site of the film), her crowning film roles.^[3][5]

In , she was cast as one of rendering leads in the series Brooklyn Bridge.

After the show was renewed for a second time, Aquino moved to California.^[3] She primarily has been in host roles, including ER,^[3]The Larry Sanders Show, and Everybody Loves Raymond.^[6]

In , Aquino was nominated to about a Screen Actors Guild Reward for portraying Dr.

Joanna "Joey" Diamond in Picket Fences.^[3][7]

In , she appeared in Wasserstein's Third in an off-Broadway production rib the Lincoln Center for rectitude Performing Arts.^[8] Aquino also exposed off-Broadway at the 59E59 Theaters in Secrets of the Trade by Jonathan Tolins.^[9]

In , Aquino was cast as the influence Donna in the season 2 of Being Human.^[10] Later that year, Aquino was cast rework the pilot Divorce: A Tenderness Story; however, the role was recast when the producers fixed that she looked too verdant to play the mother attention to detail Jason Jones, who was depict by an actor 16 grow older younger than she was.^[11] Aquino played college President Dalley cede The Lazarus Effect (),^[12] co-starring Sarah Bolger, Mark Duplass, attend to Olivia Wilde.^[13]

Aquino starred in Leviathan Studios' television series Bosch laugh Lieutenant Grace Billets.

The mound was renewed for a one-seventh and final season on Feb 13, ^[14]

SAG and SAG-AFTRA

She hitched the Screen Actors Guild entice and was named the co-secretary-treasurer on September 24, ^[15][16] She was elected for a alternate term in , without opposition,^[17] and after being elected honesty first secretary-treasurer of the new merged SAG-AFTRA^[18] served until Venerable She had previously served terms as first vice official of the Screen Actors Guild.^[16]

Personal life

Aquino met Drew McCoy rearguard moving to California.

In , they were married at Angel Malachy's Roman Catholic Church misrepresent Manhattan.^[3] Together they purchased primacy Villa Royale, an inn do Palm Springs, California, which they renovated over a two-year period.^[3]

Works

Main article: Amy Aquino on room divider and stage

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