Born As: Amy Brenneman Sex: Female Nationality: US - United States of America Date of Birth: June 22, 1964 Place of Birth: Glastonbury, Connecticut, USA
When I was 11, I was in the chorus of The Music Man ... I was in it for all of five minutes. But afterwards, I remember crying into my father's shirt in the hallway. And I remember thinking, what is this? What is this [emotion coming from]? And I never stopped acting after that.
Off the Map (2003) It's 1974 and the harshly beautiful wilds of Taos are home to 11-year-old Bo Groden (Valentina de Angelis) and her free-thinking family. While constantly yearning for escape from her sparse environment, Bo passes the time with flair and imagination. She's a crack shot with a rifle and a bow and arrow, an artful plunderer of wallets and briefcases, and the compelling mistress of ceremonies for a moonlit three-ring circus of her own invention. Bo's home is an entrancing, challenging place that she will one day transcend to become the woman she was destined to be. Arlene (Joan Allen), Bo's warm, earthy, and eccentric mother, raises most of the family's food in her vegetable garden -- which she prefers to tend in the nude. Meanwhile, Bo's father, Charley (Sam Elliott), the embodiment of Old West masculinity, is losing the battle with his inner demons. When William Gibbs (Jim True-Frost) arrives, a hapless IRS agent with demons of his own, he soon proves to be a catalyst in the lives of the family during this watershed summer.
