Amanda Bearse

Age: 51
Height: 5' 4"

Birth Place: Winter Park, Florida, USA
Born: Aug. 9th, 1958

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Amanda Bearse's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Married ... with Children	Marcy Rhoad…

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

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Openly lesbian since 1993, she lives in Atlanta with her adopted daughter Zoe. Her announcement in Advocate Magazine made big headlines as she became the first primetime actress to "come out.".
Bearse took up the challenge of television and film directing while appearing on "Married... with Children." Between 1991 and 1997, she helmed over 30 episodes of the show and went on to directed other sitcom episodes ("Reba," "Dharma & Greg", "Veronica's Closet.".
Attended Young Harris College, a private, Methodist-affiliated liberal arts junior college located in northeast Georgia.
Her initial success came with the role on the soap opera _"All My Children" (1970)_ (qv) between 1981 and 1984 playing a role bearing her first name, Amanda (Cousins).
Bearse studied acting at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse under instructor Sanford Meisner.
Moved to New York where she studied acting with Sanford Meisner. She also studied directing at the American Film Institute and USC in Los Angeles.
Her biggest break came in 1987, when she was cast as Al Bundy's next-door neighbor and nemesis, Marcy Rhoades, on the hit sitcom _"Married with Children" (1987)_ (qv).
Although she has primarily played straight characters on screen, she did play Marcy's lesbian cousin Mandy in a 1997 episode of "Married With Children" entitled "Lez Be Friends.".

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