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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1981-10-03

Place of Birth

Rigaud, Quebec, Canada

Amanda Walsh

Biography

Amanda Walsh (born October 3, 1981, in Rigaud, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian actress, writer, and former VJ for the Canadian television station MuchMusic. She began working as a professional actor at age twelve, attended Hudson High School in Hudson, Quebec, and won a gold medal at the 2000 Improv Games in Quebec as a member of the "8 People" troupe. She hosted or co-hosted several MuchMusic programs including Much Top Tens, Electric Circus, MuchOnDemand, and Fandemonium before leaving in 2004 to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles. Walsh is perhaps best known for playing Katie in the unaired pilot of The Big Bang Theory (2006), a role that was ultimately reworked into Penny, played by Kaley Cuoco. Her other notable television credits include a starring role as Jenna Halbert in Sons & Daughters (2006–2007, ABC, 11 episodes), appearances in Smallville, Veronica Mars, NCIS, Grimm, Two and a Half Men, Lost Girl (2014–2015, 9 episodes as Zee/Elizabeth Helm), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2017, 10 episodes as Suzie Boreton), and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2017). She also served as a story editor and wrote an episode of Schitt's Creek, and more recently appeared in Pretty Hard Cases (2023) and Brilliant Minds (2026). Her film credits include Disturbia (2007, as Minnie Tyco), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009, as Denice the Bridesmaid, starring Matthew McConaughey), These Girls (2005, starring David Boreanaz), Full of It (2007), Man Maid (2008), WarGames: The Dead Code (2008), and Doula (2022).

Known for

NCIS

NCIS

From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has any connection to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.

Smallville

Smallville

The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.

Castle

Castle

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.

Grimm

Grimm

After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars

In the fictional town of Neptune, California, student Veronica Mars progresses from high school to college while moonlighting as a private investigator under the tutelage of her detective father.

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

This spooky anthology series for kids recounts ghost stories told by the young members of the Midnight Society as they gather around a campfire. Each episode opens with members of the Midnight Society at their secret spot in the woods, where they prepare their fire and the night's storyteller announces the title of the his or her offering. However, the cameras soon leave the storyteller and switch to the tale being told.

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

This spooky anthology series for kids recounts ghost stories told by the young members of the Midnight Society as they gather around a campfire. Each episode opens with members of the Midnight Society at their secret spot in the woods, where they prepare their fire and the night's storyteller announces the title of the his or her offering. However, the cameras soon leave the storyteller and switch to the tale being told.

Lost Girl

Lost Girl

The gorgeous and charismatic Bo is a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.

Lessons in Chemistry

Lessons in Chemistry

In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives way more than recipes.

Brilliant Minds

Brilliant Minds

A rare condition — face blindness — gives an eccentric yet incredibly gifted neurologist a unique perspective on care, fueling his mission to change the way people see his patients. Alongside a team of brilliant young interns, he solves some of the world's most puzzling psychological cases while navigating the complicated relationships that come with the job.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

A comedic thriller that follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic” detective Dirk Gently and his reluctant assistant Todd. An adaptation of Douglas Adams’ wildly successful comic novels.

Chasing Life

Chasing Life

April, an aspiring journalist, is balancing her ambitious career with her family and a new office romance. In an unexpected twist of fate, April learns that she has leukemia.

Pretty Hard Cases

Pretty Hard Cases

A fun and honest portrayal of two radically different female detectives in their early 40s following Guns and Gangs detective Sam and Narcotics detective Kelly, who by day are true action heroes in their own particular way: skilled, tough, determined, and ruthless. But by night, they’re both grappling with loneliness, dysfunctional families, screwed-up love lives, and a sense that their professional ambitions may not be totally in line with their personal needs.