Amanda Pays

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Amanda Pays

Pays at the 1988 Emmy Awards
Born Amanda J. Pays
6 June 1959 (1959-06-06) (age 52)
London, England, UK
Occupation Actress
Years active 1984–present
Spouse Corbin Bernsen (1988-present) 4 children[1]

Amanda Pays (born 6 June 1959) is an English actress.

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[edit] Personal life

Pays was born in London, England, the daughter of Joan (née Miller), an actress, and Howard Reginald Pays, a talent agent and former actor.[2] She is the niece of former child actress Mandy Miller, after whom she is named. Her first marriage, from 1984 to 1987, was to Peter Kohn, production manager for Pirates of the Caribbean. [1] Following her divorce, Pays married American actor Corbin Bernsen on 19 November 1988, with whom she has four sons. Her mother-in-law is long-time The Young and the Restless actress Jeanne Cooper.

[edit] Career

Pays made her film debut in Oxford Blues (1984) and she played a French nun, Sister Nicole, in Off Limits (1988 film) with Willem Dafoe and Gregory Hines. She is known for her roles as Theora Jones in the film and television series Max Headroom and as Christina "Tina" McGee in The Flash. Pays also had a guest role as Phoebe Green in episode "Fire" (1993) of The X-Files, in the episode "Cindy Plumb" (2006) of Nip/Tuck and in the episode "Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion" (2008) of Psych, opposite husband Corbin Bernsen.

Pays is an interior designer and hosts Fine Living's Breathing Room.

She made her debut in the dual role of Carla Martin and Christa Bruckner in the 1984 cable film The Cold Room, played Sarah in the 1985 miniseries A.D. (known as Anno Domini in some releases) and narrated the 1988 documentary Computer Dreams. She also appeared in the low-budget 1980s horror film The Kindred (not to be confused with the 1990s vampire TV series) and 1989's Leviathan.

In 1985 she played the part of Nikki South in the television film Minder on the Orient Express, alongside Dennis Waterman and George Cole.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Fine Living TV". http://www.fineliving.com/fine/host_bios/article/0,,FINE_1400_972746,00.html. Retrieved 2008-11-01. 
  2. ^ Amanda Pays Biography (1959-)

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