Amy Carlson
Amy Carlson was raised in Glen Ellyn
(Illinois) and spent her entire childhood living in Chicago. But when Amy was
in high school her family also resided in the Middle East where her parents,
Bob and Barb, taught at the American School. Amy has two sisters, Betsy and
Lori, as well as a brother Joe. Amy has traveled extensively across Europe with
her family as well as independently. Because her parents were teachers who
taught, they could travel together every summer, and camping all across the
United States. They've camped across every state with the exception of Alaska.
Amy traveled to Rwanda in 1994 after the war to assist with the relief efforts.
Amy was a talented actor in school plays and also won writing contests. She was
a promising athlete during high school, and was a participant in the very first
3200-meter relay in Illinois girls track. In college, after an accident, she
returned to the theater with many roles on stage beginning with Lanford
Wilson's "Fifth of July" and directing Wallace Shawn's "Aunt Dan
and Lemon". Amy was a Knox College student from Galesburg, Illinois. She
graduated with an B.A. in East Asian history and a concentration in Theater.
After graduation, she relocated to Chicago and studied Improv at The Improv Olympic.
She also took acting classes at The Actor's Center. After graduation, she was
offered a contract job on the now-defunct soap opera Another World (1964). She
was nominated in the "Outstanding Supporting Actress in Daytime Drama
Series" category for the Daytime Emmy Award. Her most memorable roles have
been of strong women playing Alex Taylor in Third Watch (1999), Maggie Pistone
in Falcone (2000), Katie Owen in Peacemakers (2003) alongside Tom Berenger in
Peacemakers (2003) and Linda Reagan in Blue Bloods. Carlson lives in New York
City with husband Syd Butler, the bassist of Les Savy Fav, where she is also
employed in the music industry as an independent business as the co-owner of
the independent label "Frenchkiss Records". Amy is continuing to
write and search for diverse and distinctive films and roles.
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