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Name: Amy Louise Acker
Date of Birth: December 5th, 1976
Birth Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
Occupation: Actress
Height: 5' 8"
1st Acting Appearance: "Wishbone" (1995) TV Series
.... Various Characters (1995-1997)
1st Hit: "Angel" (1999/I) TV Series
Eye Colour: Brown
Natural Hair Colour: Light Brown
Trivia:
- Engaged to actor James Carpinello.
She studied ballet, modern and jazz for 13 years before moving
onto acting
- 2002 Nominated for the Cinescape Genre Face of the Future Award
(Female) for: "Angel" (1999/I)
- She enjoys traveling, reading, skiing, horseback riding and
learning to play golf.
- She relaxes by practicing yoga.
- Amy currently lives in Los Angeles. (from the Offical Angel
Website)
- Currently dating Actor Matthew James (I) (1999 - present). He's
MERL from Angel!
- If Amy was stranded someplace she would bring with her; a journal,a
book, and Gatorade.
- At SMU she roomed with the university president's daughter her
freshman year.
- From the BUFFY cast ,since she first started out on ANGEL, has
met Michelle, Alyson, Nick and Amber.
- Amy says she can sing, but that she isn't necessarily good at
it.
- She thinks her full name is very Southern.
- She has a roommate now. Her roommate is a huge BUFFY fan. She
of filled Amy in on the past five years.
- Amy means Beloved.
- Before Amy auditioned for ANGEL , she had seen a couple episodes
of BUFFY and ANGEL. And when she found out she got the audition
she watched a lot more.
- Amy is about 5 foot 8 inches.
- Amy's favourite ANGEL scenes so far were the cave scenes with
David.
- She didn't have an accent when she auditioned, but she wore
her own glasses (Fred's glass are pretty much exact replicas of
the ones Amy wears).
- At the audition for ANGEL Joss and David wanted her to keep
her Texas accent, which she had been trying to lose in school.
- When Amy modeled in Japan for 3 summers she stayed for 60 days
each time and roomed with people from all over the world.
- Her favourite movies are Charade (1963), Moulin Rouge , and
Hilary and Jackie.
- She has loved Gatorade since she was a child, her favourite
flavor is the original one (the green one).
- When she modeled whilst at SMU she was with the Campbell Agency.
- Amy's parents live with the family a dog named Gabby.
- Amy is not afraid of chickens.
- She watched Buffy in school — they had Buffy nights like
everyone else.
- Amy Acker was in The Accident (2001) with Stuart Rudin ...
... who was in The Professional (1994) with Gary Oldman ...
... who was in Murder in the First (1995) with Kevin Bacon .
Other works
Therese Raquin (1998)
Beast on the Moon (1998)
Balm in Gilead (1996-1999)
Measure for Measure (1996-1999)
The Greeks (1996-1999)
Fefu and her Friends (1996-1999)
Apparent Wind (1996-1999)
Much Ado About Nothing (1999-2000)
The Master Builder (1999-2000)
Talc (2000)
