Amanda Wyss

Personal Info

Birthday

November 24, 1960

(65 years old)

Place of Birth

Manhattan Beach, California, USA

Also Known As

Mandy Wyss

آماندا ویس

Amanda Wyss

Biography

Amanda Wyss (born November 24, 1960) is an American film and television actress. She began her career in the early 1980s in teen roles including Lisa in the coming-of-age comedy film Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Tina Gray in the slasher film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and Beth in the film Better Off Dead (1985). She had a supporting role as investigative reporter Randi McFarland in the television series Highlander: The Series (1992–1993). She played Woody's ex-girlfriend, Beth, in two episodes of Cheers in the mid-1980s.

Known For

The Rookie

Dexter

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

JAG

Murder, She Wrote

Diagnosis: Murder

Cold Case

Filmography

2022
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
as Self
Beyond the Resonator
as Professor McMichaels
2021
The Resonator: Miskatonic U
as Professor McMichaels
2020
Hunter's Moon
as Bernice Delaney
2019
Badland
as Alice Hollenbeck
Rest Stop
as Harmony
2018
Big Legend
as Dr. Wheeler
2017
The Watcher of Park Ave
as Lt. Samantha Warren
It Happened Again Last Night
as Eileen
The Hatred
as Beth Crossan
The Capture
as Terry
The Sandman
as Dr. Amanda Elliott
2016
Thing in the Dark
as JC
The Id
as Meredith Lane
2013
Fantasm
as Self
2010
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
as Self
Deadly Impact
as Julie Mulligan
The Graves
as Darlene
2006
Never Sleep Again: The Making of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’
as Self
Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven's Nightmares
as Narrator
2005
Monster-in-Law
as Tina Gray (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998
Marry Me or Die
as Nora Dawkins
1997
Strategic Command
as Michelle Harding
1994
Desert Steel
as Jerri
1992
Bloodfist IV: Die Trying
as Shannon
Gunsmoke: To the Last Man
as Lizzie Tewksbury
1991
Black Magic Woman
as Diane Abbott
Son of Darkness: To Die For II
as Celia
1990
Shakma
as Tracy
Checkered Flag
as Chris Baird Trehearn
1989
The Final Days
as Tricia Nixon Cox
Deadly Innocents
as Angela/Andy
Powwow Highway
as Rabbit Layton
1988
To Die For
as Celia Kett
1987
Independence
as Chastity
1986
Something in Common
as Laura Grant
Firefighter
as Marilyn
1985
Better Off Dead...
as Beth Truss
Silverado
as Phoebe
1984
A Nightmare on Elm Street
as Tina Gray
My Mother's Secret Life
as Tobi Jensen
1983
A Killer in the Family
as Dannelda Lyons
1982
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
as Lisa
1981
The Other Victim
as Kimi Langford
She Drinks a Little
as Cindy Scott
Force: Five
as Cindy Lester
This House Possessed
as Holly