Amanda Payton

Amanda Payton is an American actress whose first screen credit came in 2008 on the CBS drama Numbers. Born in Santa Monica, California, she trained at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, graduating with honors and a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her small film roles include The Perfect Host and Beginners, both from 2010. In 2018 she took the role of Nina Rudolph in the second season of Trial & Error, an NBC sitcom. In 2020 she played Dr. Alison Parfit on the Sky Comedy police comedy-drama Code 404, an American scientist leading an artificial intelligence project. In 2021 she had a recurring role as Holly on the CBS sitcom United States of Al, and she played the protagonist, Sawyer, in A Fiancé for Christmas, a Lifetime Christmas film. From 2021 to 2022 she appeared in two episodes of the NBC police action drama Chicago P.D.