Amanda Pays
Encyclopedia
Personal life
Pays was born in LondonLondon
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, England, the daughter of Joan (née
Married and maiden names
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Miller), an actress, and Howard Reginald Pays, a talent agent and former actor. She is the niece of former child actress Mandy Miller
Mandy Miller
Mandy Miller is an English child actor who made a number of films in the 1950s and is probably best remembered for her recording of the song "Nellie the Elephant".-Early life:...
, after whom she is named. Her first marriage, from 1984 to 1987, was to Peter Kohn, production manager for Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean
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. http://www.superiorpics.com/amanda_pays/ Following her divorce, Pays married American
United States
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actor Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Dean Bernsen is an American actor and director, known for his work on television. He is best known for his roles as divorce attorney Arnold Becker on the NBC drama series L.A. Law, and as retired police detective Henry Spencer on the USA Network comedy-drama series Psych...
on 19 November 1988, with whom she has four sons. Her mother-in-law is long-time The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
actress Jeanne Cooper
Jeanne Cooper
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.
Career
Pays made her film debut in Oxford BluesOxford Blues
Oxford Blues is a 1984 film written and directed by Robert Boris and starred Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy and Amanda Pays. It is a remake of the 1938 MGM film A Yank at Oxford.-Plot:...
(1984) and she played a French nun, Sister Nicole, in Off Limits (1988 film) with Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe is an American film, stage, and voice actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group...
and Gregory Hines
Gregory Hines
Gregory Oliver Hines was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer.-Early years:Born in New York City, Hines and his older brother Maurice started dancing at an early age, studying with choreographer Henry LeTang...
. She is known for her roles as Theora Jones in the movie and television series Max Headroom
Max Headroom (character)
Max Headroom is a fictional British artificial intelligence, known for his wit and stuttering, distorted, electronically sampled voice. The character was created by George Stone, Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton in the mid nineteen eighties, and portrayed by Matt Frewer as "The World's first...
and as Christina "Tina" McGee
Tina McGee
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in The Flash
The Flash (TV series)
The Flash is a 1990 American television series that starred John Wesley Shipp as the superhero, the Flash , and co-starred Amanda Pays. The series was developed from the DC Comics characters by the writing team of Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, and produced by their company, Pet Fly Productions, in...
. Pays also had a guest role as Phoebe Green in episode "Fire" (1993) of The X-Files
The X-Files
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, in the episode "Cindy Plumb" (2006) of Nip/Tuck and in the episode "Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion" (2008) of Psych
Psych
Psych is an American detective comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks and broadcast on USA Network. It stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department whose "heightened observational skills" and impressive detective instincts...
, opposite husband Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Dean Bernsen is an American actor and director, known for his work on television. He is best known for his roles as divorce attorney Arnold Becker on the NBC drama series L.A. Law, and as retired police detective Henry Spencer on the USA Network comedy-drama series Psych...
.
Pays is an interior designer and hosts Fine Living
Fine Living
Fine Living Network was an American specialty television network owned by Scripps Networks Interactive...
'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
The Cold Room
The Cold Room is a 1984 cable television film by James Dearden. Based on an eponymous 1978 science fiction novel by Jeffrey Caine, the film stars George Segal, Amanda Pays , Anthony Higgins, Renée Soutendijk, and Warren Clarke. The original film score is by Michael Nyman...
, played Sarah in the 1985 miniseries A.D. (known as Anno Domini in some releases) and narrated the 1988 documentary Computer Dreams
Computer Dreams
Computer Dreams is an award-winning 1988 film created by Digital Vision Entertainment and released by MPI Home Entertainment. Written, produced and directed by Geoffrey de Valois and hosted by Amanda Pays, it consists primarily of clips and behind-the-scenes work of early computer graphics animation...
. 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 movie Minder on the Orient Express
Minder on the Orient Express
Minder on the Orient Express is a comedy/thriller television film made in 1985 as a spin-off from the successful television series Minder...
, alongside Dennis Waterman
Dennis Waterman
Dennis Waterman is a British actor and singer, best known for his tough-guy roles in television series including The Sweeney, Minder and New Tricks.-Early life:...
and George Cole.