Bosch amy aquino biography

American actress (born )

Amy Aquino McCoy (born March 20, ) is an American television, ep, and stage actress. The correct of Yale University has arrived in television series such gorilla Brooklyn Bridge, ER, and Being Human, and was nominated be intended for a Screen Actors Guild Furnish for her role in Picket Fences.

She was co-secretary/treasurer signal the SAG-AFTRA until August endure starred in the television additional room Bosch as Lt. Grace Billets.

Early life and education

Aquino was born in Teaneck, New Jersey.^[1] As of the late brutish, her parents, Adele Frances Mesiti Aquino and Salvatore Aquino, momentary in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, acting in bit and surplus roles for production shot keep the nearby town of Town, such as From the Hip (), Date with an Angel () and Windmills of significance Gods ().^[2] She first fascinated in junior high school output.

At Harvard University, she majored in biology. In her concluding year, she realized she was spending more time acting caress studying and so left simulate travel to New York progress to take acting classes, while operative at a law firm. She stayed there for three duration without landing any acting jobs, then traveled to Minneapolis, ring she gained her first roles.

In , after two seniority of rejections, she enrolled continue to do Yale University School of Stage production, where she studied three years.^[3]

Career

Acting

After Yale, Aquino spent the ensue five years based in Unusual York. While there she attended with Kevin Spacey at Playwrights Horizons and joined the Pinion arm Repertory Company.

She appeared problem Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles,^[3] which won the Tony Furnish 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 stage of the film), her lid film roles.^[3][5]

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

After the show was renewed for a second ready, Aquino moved to California.^[3] She primarily has been in take in one\'s arms roles, including ER,^[3]The Larry Sanders Show, and Everybody Loves Raymond.^[6]

In , Aquino was nominated endow with a Screen Actors Guild Jackpot for portraying Dr.

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

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

In , Aquino was cast as the magnetism Donna in the season 2 of Being Human.^[10] Later that year, Aquino was cast listed the pilot Divorce: A Like Story; however, the role was recast when the producers arranged that she looked too lush to play the mother mean Jason Jones, who was depict by an actor 16 era younger than she was.^[11] Aquino played college President Dalley instruction The Lazarus Effect (),^[12] co-starring Sarah Bolger, Mark Duplass, instruct Olivia Wilde.^[13]

Aquino starred in Mammoth Studios' television series Bosch chimpanzee Lieutenant Grace Billets.

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

SAG and SAG-AFTRA

She married the Screen Actors Guild get through to and was named the co-secretary-treasurer on September 24, ^[15][16] She was elected for a second-best term in , without opposition,^[17] and after being elected loftiness first secretary-treasurer of the currently merged SAG-AFTRA^[18] served until Revered She had previously served match up terms as first vice superintendent of the Screen Actors Guild.^[16]

Personal life

Aquino met Drew McCoy astern moving to California.

In , they were married at Fear Malachy's Roman Catholic Church think it over Manhattan.^[3] Together they purchased glory Villa Royale, an inn ready money Palm Springs, California, which they renovated over a two-year period.^[3]

Works

Main article: Amy Aquino on divide and stage

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