Jessica Lundy

Jessica Lundy is an American actress whose career began in film and expanded into television comedy and drama. Born in San Diego and raised in Avon, Connecticut, she trained at the Circle in the Square Theatre School and earned a degree in drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1987. She made her film debut in Bright Lights, Big City (1988). She also appeared in Caddyshack II (1988) and Madhouse (1990). On television, she had regular roles in the police drama Over My Dead Body from 1990 to 1991 and in the 1991 revival of The Carol Burnett Show. On NBC she headlined the sitcom Hope & Gloria from 1995 to 1996, and she also appeared in the comedies The Stupids (1996) and RocketMan (1997). Later she starred as Amanda Wainwright on the CBS series The Inspectors from 2015 to 2019, winning a Daytime Emmy Award in 2016.