Amy Steel (actress)
Amy Steel | |
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Born |
Alice Amy Steel May 3, 1960 Pennsylvania, United States |
Other names | Amy Steel Pulitzer |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1980–present |
Alice Amy Steel (born May 3, 1960) is an American film and television actress, also credited as Amy Steel Pulitzer.
Biography
She is perhaps best known for her role as Ginny Field in the 1981 horror film Friday the 13th Part 2. She was offered the chance to reprise the role for the third film in the long-running series, but was convinced to turn it down by her agent at the time. Steel also starred in the 1986 horror film April Fool's Day.[1]
Her numerous television roles include a stint on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light as Trudy Wilson from 1980–1981, and as Peggy Warner on All My Children in 1980 and a 1995 TV movie Abandoned and Deceived. Steel also starred in the short-lived television series The Powers of Matthew Star alongside Peter Barton, who went on to appear in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter and starred in the short-lived television series military drama For Love And Honor. Steel has made guest appearances on various TV series, including Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Family Ties, CHiPs, The A-Team, Chicago Hope, Quantum Leap, Millennium and JAG.
Personal life
In 1986 she married Peter Pulitzer.[2] She has two daughters. She serves as a marriage and family therapist intern at InBalance in the Santa Monica Mountains. She also has a private practice in Calabasas, specializing in adolescent and mid-life transitions.[3]
Filmography
- His Name was Jason (2009)
- A Time to Remember (2003) (TV)
- Tycus (2000) (Direct to Video)
- Valerie Flake (1999)
- Abandoned and Deceived (1995) (TV)
- The Innocent (1994) (TV)
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo (1992) (TV)
- Walk Like a Man (1987)
- April Fool's Day (1986)
- First Steps (1985)
- Terror in the Aisles (1984)
- Exposed (1983)
- Women of San Quentin (1983)
- Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
- Fat Angels (1980)
References
External links
- Amy Steel at the Internet Movie Database