Amelia Heinle

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Amelia Heinle (born March 17, 1973 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American actress best known for her work on daytime soap operas.

From 1993-1995, she played the role of Stephanie/Steffi Brewster on the soap opera Loving. She also played the character in that shows short lived spin off The City from 1995 until 1996. In 1994, she was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award for "Outstanding Female Newcomer".

In 1996, she and then husband Michael Weatherly had a son. August Manning Weatherly was born in January 1996 in New York City. She married Michael Weatherly in 1995 and they divorced in 1997.

Through the 1990s she appeared in many made for TV movies as well as a starring role in the Steven Soderbergh film The Limey as Peter Fonda's girlfriend.

In 2001, she decided to return to the world of daytime television and took on the role of Mia Saunders on All My Children. Although she started as a front burner character, her romantic pairing with Jake Martin (J. Eddie Peck) didn't work out because of the actor's exit from the show, and so Mia was limited to being a background player. In 2004, Heinle opted not to renew her contract with AMC.

Since March 21, 2005, Heinle joined the cast as Victoria Newman on the CBS soap The Young and the Restless, the role for which she is best known.

Was in a relationship with actor Dax Griffin (ex-Shane, The Bold and the Beautiful). In February 2007 it was announced that she is engaged to Y&R co-star Thad Luckinbill (J.T.) whom she married in March 2007.