Amanda Plummer

Daughter of Christopher Plummer and Tammy Grimes.

When she was a girl Amanda wanted to be a jockey. When she was 14, she passed an audition at the Belmont track, riding for Alfred Vanderbilts stables. Of that she said: "Those were the greatest years of my life."

Great-great-granddaughter of John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, prime minister of Canada.

Nominated in 1981-1982 for a Tony award for outstanding performance by an actress in a play for "A Taste Of Honey".

Won Broadways 1982 Tony Award for Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "Agnes of God." That same year, she also received a Tony nomination as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of "A Taste of Honey" -- making her one of only three actors (Dana Ivey and Kate Burton are the others) to receive two Tony acting nominations in the same year. In 1987, she received another Tony nomination as Best Actress (Play) for her role as Eliza Doolittle in a revival of George Bernard Shaw s "Pygmalion," opposite Peter OToole s Henry Higgins.

She and her father both received Emmy nominations in 2005. She won but he did not.

Two of her first four roles were in films adapted from John Irving novels: The World According to Garp and The Hotel New Hampshire .

Stepdaughter of Elaine Taylor.

Ex-stepdaughter of Jeremy Slate.

Amandas middle name is Michael, after her godmother, Michael Learned.

Although she played Timothy Hutton s younger sister in Daniel , she is more than three years his senior in real life.

It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.