Amy Brenneman

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Amy Frederica Brenneman (born June 22, 1964 in New London, Connecticut) is an American actress best known for her roles in the television series NYPD Blue and Judging Amy. She was raised in Glastonbury, Connecticut. She graduated from Harvard University in 1987.

She starred as Officer Janice Licalsi on the television police drama NYPD Blue in 1993-1994 during the show's first season and the first episodes of the second.

In 1999, Brenneman became creator and executive producer of the television series Judging Amy, in which she also starred. Brenneman portrayed a divorced single mother working as a Family Court Judge in Hartford, Connecticut. The show's concept was based on the real-life experiences of her mother, Frederica Brenneman, as a superior court judge in the state of Connecticut. Judging Amy ran on CBS for six seasons and 138 episodes from September 19, 1999 to May 3, 2005 to good ratings. Frederica Brenneman was one of Harvard Law School's first female graduates and became a juvenile court judge in Connecticut when Amy was 3 years old. Amy has said "I play my mother's job, not my mother."

Since 1995, Brenneman has been married to director Brad Silberling, with whom she has two children, Charlotte Tucker (b. March 2001) and Bodhi Russell (b. June 2005).

Brenneman signed the "We Had Abortions" petition which appears in the October 2006 issue of Ms. Magazine. The petition contains signatures of over 5,000 women declaring they had an abortion and were "unashamed of (the) decision." [1]