Amanda Good Hennessey

Female

Somerville, MA

United States

Profile Information:

Member's contact info (email and phone or agent):
aghennessey at gmail.com
646-205-1604
Member's acting, voice or modeling website:
http://www.amandagoodhennessey.com
Member's age range:
36-40, 41-45
Member's Affiliations:
SAG-AFTRA
Member's PHYSICAL TRAITS (use format on the "Before Applying" page)
White / Caucasian, 5'8", 128lbs. Brown hair, Hazel eyes.

Skills: teaching, writing, pilates, tennis, voiceovers, teleprompter experience, green screen
Member's Performance Skills:
Driving - car, Driving - stick shift-standard, Green screen, Swimming - general ability, Swimming - breast stroke, Swimming - freestyle, Teleprompter, Tennis
Recent noteworthy acting experience (use the format on the Before Applying page):
FILM:
Olive Kitteridge - dir. Lisa Cholodenko (Featured) 2013
Nailed It - dir. Jean-Paul DiSciscio (Supporting) 2013
The Heat - dir. Paul Feig (Featured) 2012
The Makeover - dir. John Gray (Featured) 2012
Day of Youth - dir. Jared Vincenti (Supporting)
Rubberneck - dir. Alex Karpovsky (Supporting) - 2010 - 2011
Happily Ever After - dir. Filip Kasperaszek (Lead) - 2011
The Oblique Sector - Albion Park Productions (Lead) - 2010
The Sneakers - Wherewithal Films (Lead) - 2008
-Best Dramatic Short - Atlanta Underground Film Festival (2009) and Cedar Rapids Film Festival(2010)
-Honorable Mention - Columbus International Film and Video Festival (2009)
Official Selection - Woods Hole Film Festival, Angelus Film Festival, International Film Festival, Ireland (all 2009)

Onward and Upward - directed by Jared Vincenti (Principal)- 2009
Official Selection - Early Bird International Student Film Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria and LA Comedy Festival (2010)

Interfaces - directed by Tom Kingdon (Principal) - 2008
-Award of Merit from The Indie (2010)

Time Share - Dorothy Quinzani - Playomatic Zero - 2009


COMMERCIALS/INDUSTRIALS
Microsoft industrial - 2012
National Development industrial - 2011
iParty commercial - 2011
Cox Communication commercial - 2011
Kaspersky Lab, online commercial - 2011
Nesson Media ESL educational video - 2010
RSA Securities web video - 2010
Ivy Insiders industrial - 2010
Toyota of Watertown (2 spots) as Spokeswoman - 2010
iParty - 2010
Filene's Basement - 2009
The Butchery - 2009

TELEVISION
Life Without Green TV Pilot, directed by Ishai Setton, Aces Deuce Productions - Melissa Burr (Lead's best friend) - 2008

THEATRE
The Superherione Monologues - Lois Lane - Phoenix Theatre Artists/Company One - 2009

The Memory of Water - Mary - Way Theatre Artists - 2008

The New World - SpeakEasy Stage's entry in the 2008 Boston Theatre Marathon

VOICEOVER:
White Plains Hospital (radio spot) - 2011
Lowell General Hospital (PSA) - 2010
Toyota of Watertown (radio spots) - 2010
Papa Gino's (radio spot) - 2010
The Health Museum, TX - Chedd-Angier-Lewis - 2008

PRINT WORK
Forrester Research - 2008

TRAINING:
Film/TV Class with Chris Wells, The Barrow Group - 2011
Private Coaching with Matthew Bonifacio 2011 to present
Private Coaching with Jack Plotnick 2010 to present
Private Coaching with Erica Palgon 2010
Fearless Cold Reading and Audition Technique with Karen Kohlhaas 2010
Audition/Callback class with Christine Kromer (Alexa Fogel Casting) 2010
Private coaching lesson with Tom Kemp 2008
MFA - Actors Studio Drama School at New School

also, please see: www.amandagoodhennessey.com and http://agencyprotalent.com/ahennessey
Training or acting classes (class name, teacher & where):
MFA - Actors Studio Drama School at the New School
(please see website for more complete listing of training.)
Other non-acting related work, hobbies or charities (not skills) in which this actor is involved (1 or 2 word descriptions):
I am a private acting coach, an adjunct professor at BU's Dept of Film and Television and I have taught at the New York Film Academy, the Huntington Theatre Company and I also teach privately. For class info: www.BostonActingClasses.com

I also volunteer as an acting teaching/director for kids at the Fresh Pond Apartments in Cambridge.
VOICE ARTISTS ONLY [you must have a professional demo to upload]: illustrative 1-word descriptions for this actor's voice (e.g. conversational, announcer, warm, etc.):
Accents: English, Yorkshire, Appalachian, Southern, Boston, New York.
Soothing, pleasant, articulate, conversational, announcer, mom.

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  • Jeff Bellin

    Very nice reel on front page, Amanda.

    Aug 20, 2010

  • F.Medrano

    Congrats

    Feb 2, 2011

  • Jay Dunigan

    Amanda!  So great to see you in "The Heat" tonight when my wife and I went to the movies!  Now keep those kids out of the bar- will ya?!  Very cool and congratulations!  All the best- Jay Dunigan

    Jun 29, 2013