Amanda Plummer
Highest Rated: 92% Pulp Fiction (1994)
Lowest Rated: 18% Freejack (1992)
Birthday: Mar 23, 1957
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
The daughter of Canadian actor Christopher Plummer and American stage actress Tammy Grimes, Amanda Plummer grew up on the East Coast with a love of horseback riding and literature. After studying at Middlebury College and the Neighborhood Playhouse, she settled into an acting company in Massachusetts. Plummer made her film debut in the 1981 Western Cattle Annie and Little Britches opposite Burt Lancaster. Working on Broadway, she won the Tony and the Drama Desk award for her performance as Agnes in the 1982 stage production of Agnes of God. She lost the role in the film version to Meg Tilly and stayed in the theater. Some of her stage credits include The Glass Menagerie, You Never Can Tell, and A Taste of Honey. She earned another Tony nomination for her performance in Pygmalion, opposite Peter O'Toole. On television, she earned an Emmy nomination for her recurring role of mentally challenged Alice on L.A. Law.Plummer's feature film work would consist of playing small, fragile, almost invisible characters who nevertheless leave a big impression. On the big screen, Plummer displayed her silent intensity in the non-speaking role of Ellen James in The World According to Garp (1982). She also created the interesting, if little-seen, character of Dagmar in John Patrick Shanley's Joe Versus the Volcano (1990). Her big film breakthrough came about in 1991 in Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King. She played awkward and plain office worker Lydia Sinclair, who inspires the love of a homeless man played by Robin Williams. The next year, she earned her first Emmy award for her role of concentration camp survivor Lusia Weiss in the post-war drama Miss Rose White (1992), a made-for-TV adaptation of an off-Broadway play. In feature films during the late '90s, Plummer often played slightly off-kilter women just on the verge of violent behavior. She was a disturbed sister in So I Married an Axe Murderer and an semi-balanced Castle Rock resident in Needful Things (both 1993). In 1994, she played a partner-in-crime with Tim Roth in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. As the gun-pointing Honey Bunny, Plummer gained a lot of exposure with a minimum of screen time. The next year, she played a serial killer in Michael Winterbottom's Butterfly Kiss (1995).Returning to television, Plummer earned another Emmy for the role of Professor Theresa Given in a 1996 episode of Showtime's The Outer Limits. For the rest of the '90s, she continued portraying delicately damaged characters in small independent films like Matthew Bright's Freeway (1996) and Peter Cohn's Drunks (1997). She also appeared in the family film A Simple Wish (1997) and lent her voice to the TV series Stories From My Childhood as well as the animated feature Hercules (1997). In 1999, Plummer revisited her earlier days as a horseback rider to play a member of the title harem in Peter Greenaway's bizarre 8 1/2 Women (1999). In 2003, she played Sarah Polley's food-obsessed co-worker in My Life Without Me. Plummer's projects for 2004 included the horror film Satan's Little Helper and Tobe Hooper's Brew. And while the majority of films Plummer appeared in throughout the early 2000s were generally unremarkable, the veteran actress did make headlines when it was announced that she would play the role of Wiress, a key ally of Katniss Everdeen, in the highly anticipated sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | Spiral Farm | Actor | — | 2019 |
| 50% | We Are Boats | Actor | — | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | A Young Man with High Potential | Ketura | — | 2018 |
| 36% | Honeyglue | Alice | — | 2016 |
| 50% | The Dancer (La danseuse) | Lili | — | 2016 |
| 29% | Reversion | Elizabeth | — | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | Strangely in Love | Sister Sarah | — | 2014 |
| 89% | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Wiress | $336.7M | 2013 |
| 44% | Abigail Harm | Executive Producer Abigail Harm | — | 2013 |
| 67% | Afternoon Delight | Executive Producer | $0.2M | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | Vampire | Helga | — | 2013 |
| 30% | Small Apartments | Mrs. Ballisteri | — | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | I Have to Buy New Shoes | Actor | — | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Sophomore | Actor | $18.9K | 2012 |
| 50% | Girlfriend | Celeste | — | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | Dr. Ketel | Actor | — | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | The Making Of Plus One | Actor | — | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf | Actor | — | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 45 R.P.M. | Caralee Lucas | — | 2008 |
| 70% | Red | Mrs. Doust | — | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Inconceivable | Tallulah 'Tutu' Williams | — | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Affinity | Actor | — | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Diary of a Spider and More Cute Critter Stories | Actor | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Satan's Little Helper | Merrill Whooly | — | 2004 |
| 60% | Mimic: Sentinel | Simone Montrose | — | 2003 |
| 65% | My Life Without Me | Laurie | $0.3M | 2003 |
| 43% | Ken Park | Claude's Mother | — | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Shadow Realm | Prof. Tracy | — | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Triggermen | Penny Archer | — | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Get a Clue | Miss Dawson | — | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Seven Days to Live | Ellen Shaw | — | 2000 |
| 25% | The Million Dollar Hotel | Vivien | — | 2000 |
| 41% | 8 1/2 Women | Beryl | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | You Can Thank Me Later | Susan Cooperberg | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | The Apartment Complex | Miss Chenille | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | October 22 | Actor | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | Dead Girl | Actor | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | L.A. Without a Map | Pool Owner | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | American Perfekt | Sandra Thomas | — | 1997 |
| 25% | A Simple Wish | Boots | — | 1997 |
| 77% | Freeway | Ramona, Vanessa's Mother | — | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | Don't Look Back | Bridget | — | 1996 |
| 77% | Butterfly Kiss | Eunice | — | 1996 |
| 43% | The Prophecy | Rachael | — | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | The Right To Remain Silent | Actor | — | 1995 |
| 57% | Drunks | Shelley | — | 1995 |
| 33% | Search and Destroy | Actor | $0.4M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | Under the Piano | Franny | — | 1995 |
| 92% | Pulp Fiction | Honey Bunny | — | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica | Cara Clausen Schmidt | — | 1993 |
| 38% | Nostradamus | Catherine De Medici | — | 1993 |
| 31% | Needful Things | Nettie Cobb | — | 1993 |
| 54% | So I Married an Axe Murderer | Rose Michaels | — | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Last Light | Lilian Burke | — | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Miss Rose White | Lusia | — | 1992 |
| 18% | Freejack | Nun | — | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | The Sands of Time | Sister Graciela | — | 1992 |
| 83% | The Fisher King | Lydia | — | 1991 |
| 62% | Joe Versus the Volcano | Dagmar | — | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | Dancing Frog | Actor | — | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | Riders to the Sea | Actor | — | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | Gryphon | Actor | — | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | Courtship | Laura Vaughn | — | 1987 |
| 50% | Made in Heaven | Wiley Foxx | — | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | Static | Julie | — | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | On Valentine's Day | Laura | — | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | The Dollmaker | Mamie | — | 1984 |
| 71% | The Hotel New Hampshire | Miss Miscarriage | — | 1984 |
| 43% | Daniel | Susan Isaacson | — | 1983 |
| 75% | The World According to Garp | Ellen James | — | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | Cattle Annie and Little Britches | Annie | — | 1981 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 91% |
The Blacklist 2013 |
2015 2014 |
|
| No Score Yet |
Phineas and Ferb 2007-2015 |
Voice |
2013 |
| 95% |
Battlestar Galactica 2005-2009 |
Oracle Selloi |
2006 |
| No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999 |
Miranda Cole |
2004 |
| No Score Yet |
Night Visions 2001-2002 |
Music Teacher |
2002 |
| No Score Yet |
The Outer Limits 1995-2002 |
Dr. Givens |
2000 1996 |
| No Score Yet |
American Experience 1988 |
Narrator |
1989 |
| 82% |
Tales from the Crypt 1989-1996 |
Guest |
1989 |
| No Score Yet |
Miami Vice 1984-1990 |
Lisa |
1989 1986 |
| 97% |
Moonlighting 1985-1989 |
Jackie Wilbourne |
1987 |
| No Score Yet |
American Playhouse 1982-1996 |
Laura | |
| No Score Yet |
Ratched 2019 |
QUOTES FROM Amanda Plummer CHARACTERS
Lydia Sinclair says: I'm not feeling very well.
Parry says: Well, no wonder. We just met, made love, broke up, all in the space of 30 seconds. I don't remember the first kiss, which I think is the best part.
Lydia Sinclair says: Yeah, but what we publish is mostly trashy romance novels.
Parry says: Don't say that. There's nothing trashy about romance. In romance there's passion, imagination, beauty. Besides, you find some pretty wonderful things in the trash.
Wiress says: Tick Tock!
Pumpkin says: (pulls out a gun) Everyone stay cool. This is a robbery!
Pumpkin says: [pulls out a gun] Everyone stay cool. This is a robbery!
Honey Bunny says: (pulls out a gun) ANYONE OF YOU FUCKING PRICKS MOVE AND I'LL EXECUTE EVERY LAST FUCKING ONE OF YOU
Honey Bunny says: [pulls out a gun] ANYONE OF YOU FUCKING PRICKS MOVE AND I'LL EXECUTE EVERY LAST FUCKING ONE OF YOU!
Jules Winnfield says: I love you, Pumpkin.
Honey Bunny says: I love you, Pumpkin.
Pumpkin says: I love you, Honey Bunny.
Pumpkin says: All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
Jules Winnfield says: Any of you f**king pricks move, and I'll execute every motherf**king last one of ya!
Honey Bunny says: Any of you f**king pricks move, and I'll execute every motherf**king last one of ya!
Honey Bunny says: I love you, Pumpkin.
Pumpkin says: I love you, Honey Bunny. Everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
Honey Bunny says: Get up, you fucking pricks move, or I'll execute every motherfucking last one of you!
Honey Bunny says: [about to rob a diner] I love you, Pumpkin.
Honey Bunny says: [About to rob a diner] I love you, Pumpkin.
Pumpkin says: I love you, Honey Bunny.
Pumpkin says: [Standing up with a gun] All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
Honey Bunny says: Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of ya!