Amy Aquino
Biography
Amy Aquino is an American actress of television, film and stage who started in junior high school productions, studied biology at Harvard University, and later trained at the Yale School of Drama. Her first roles came in Minneapolis, and after Yale she spent five years in New York, acting alongside Kevin Spacey at Playwrights Horizons and joining the Circle Repertory Company. She appeared in The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein's play that won the 1989 Tony Award for Best Play, and her first film roles were in Moonstruck (1987) and Working Girl (1988). Cast as a lead in the series Brooklyn Bridge in 1991, she moved to California and has worked mostly in television, including ER, The Larry Sanders Show and Everybody Loves Raymond. Joey Diamond in Picket Fences earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination in 1995, and she later starred as Lieutenant Grace Billets in Bosch and played college President Dalley in The Lazarus Effect (2015).
69years old
Turns 70 on March 20in 157 days
- Born Teaneck
- Star sign: PiscesLast day of the sign, on the Aries cusp
- Also credited as Amy Aquino McCoy
Movie Career
- Films
- 12
- Career span
- 37 years1987 to 2024
First and latest
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A change of course
Aquino studied biology at Harvard University. During her last year there, she saw she was acting more than studying, so she went to New York for acting classes and worked at a law firm.
Early training
After two years of rejections, Aquino enrolled at Yale University School of Drama in 1986 and studied there for three years.
First role
Aquino left her studies to take acting classes in New York, working at a law firm. After three years there with no acting jobs, she went to Minneapolis and landed her first roles.
First role
Aquino's first film roles came in 1989, when she played Loretta's hairdresser in Moonstruck and Melanie Griffith's secretary at the end of Working Girl.
Amy Aquino movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Four actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Box office
What Amy Aquino's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$475 million
10 of the 12 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 12 films: 10 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas.
- 10Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 97% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$122M25.7% of the total
- 2$103M21.7% of the total
- 3$64M13.5% of the total
- 4$61M12.9% of the total
- 5$43M9.0% of the total
- 6$23M4.9% of the total
- 7$22M4.6% of the total
- 8$21M4.5% of the total
$15.4 millionfrom the other 2 films with a worldwide figure, 3% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.