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Amy Aquino

Born 1957-03-20

Amy Aquino (born March 20, 1957) is an American television, film, and stage actress. The graduate of Harvard and Yale universities has appeared in television series such as Brooklyn Bridge, ER, and Being Human, and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in Picket Fences. She was co-Secretary/Treasurer of the SAG-AFTRA until August 2015 and currently stars in Amazon Studios' television series Bosch as Lt. Grace Billets. Aquino was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, to Adele Frances (née Mesiti) and Salvatore Aquino. She first acted in junior high school productions. At Harvard University she was pre-med, majoring in biology. In her final year, she realised she was spending more time acting than studying and so left to travel to New York to take acting classes, while working at a law firm. She stayed there for three years without landing any acting jobs, before travelling on a recommendation to Minneapolis, where she gained her first roles. In 1986, after two years of rejections, she enrolled at Yale University School of Drama, where she studied three years.

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Juror #2 2024 · 6.8 Bosch 2014 · 8.5 The Lazarus Effect 2015 · 4.8 Working Girl 1988 · 6.8 In Good Company 2004 · 6.5 Undisputed 2002 · 6.1 White Oleander 2002 · 7.1 Prison Break: The Final Break 2009 · 7.9 Boys on the Side 1995 · 6.5 The Singing Detective 2003 · 5.4 Armed Response 2014 · 5.1 Alan & Naomi 1992 · 6.7 Descending Angel 1990 · 5.9 Hacked 2016 · 5.6