Amanda Wyss
Acting • Born 1960-11-24
Biography
Amanda Wyss (born November 24, 1960) is an American film and television actress. She began her career in the early 1980s in teen roles including Lisa in the coming-of-age comedy film Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Tina Gray in the slasher film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and Beth in the film Better Off Dead (1985). She had a supporting role as investigative reporter Randi McFarland in the television series Highlander: The Series (1992–1993). She played Woody's ex-girlfriend, Beth, in two episodes of Cheers in the mid-1980s.
Filmography
85 credits
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Movie • 1984
Tina Gray
Silverado
Movie • 1985
Phoebe
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Movie • 1982
Lisa
The Graves
Movie • 2010
Darlene
Better Off Dead...
Movie • 1985
Beth Truss
Deadly Impact
Movie • 2010
Julie Mulligan
Shakma
Movie • 1990
Tracy
Powwow Highway
Movie • 1989
Rabbit Layton
Gunsmoke: To the Last Man
Movie • 1992
Lizzie Tewksbury
Beyond the Resonator
Movie • 2022
Professor McMichaels
Black Magic Woman
Movie • 1991
Diane Abbott
A Killer in the Family
Movie • 1983
Dannelda Lyons
She Drinks a Little
Movie • 1981
Cindy Scott
Checkered Flag
Movie • 1990
Chris Baird Trehearn
The Other Victim
Movie • 1981
Kimi Langford
Never Sleep Again: The Making of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’
Movie • 2006
Self
It Happened Again Last Night
Movie • 2017
Eileen
Independence
Movie • 1987
Chastity
Firefighter
Movie • 1986
Marilyn
The Id
Movie • 2016
Meredith Lane
Bloodfist IV: Die Trying
Movie • 1992
Shannon
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Movie • 2010
Self
The Watcher of Park Ave
Movie • 2017
Lt. Samantha Warren
To Die For
Movie • 1988
Celia Kett
Son of Darkness: To Die For II
Movie • 1991
Celia
Desert Steel
Movie • 1994
Jerri
Hunter's Moon
Movie • 2020
Bernice Delaney
Deadly Innocents
Movie • 1989
Angela/Andy
The Hatred
Movie • 2017
Beth Crossan
This House Possessed
Movie • 1981
Holly
The Sandman
Movie • 2017
Dr. Amanda Elliott
Force: Five
Movie • 1981
Cindy Lester
Fallacy
Movie • 2004
Big Legend
Movie • 2018
Dr. Wheeler
The Capture
Movie • 2017
Terry
Strategic Command
Movie • 1997
Michelle Harding
Triggered
Movie • 2019
Fantasm
Movie • 2013
Self
Rest Stop
Movie • 2019
Harmony
My Mother's Secret Life
Movie • 1984
Tobi Jensen
Badland
Movie • 2019
Alice Hollenbeck
Monster-in-Law
Movie • 2005
Tina Gray (archive footage) (uncredited)
No Earthly Reason
Movie • 1984
Something in Common
Movie • 1986
Laura Grant
Marry Me or Die
Movie • 1998
Nora Dawkins
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
Movie • 2022
Self
The Resonator: Miskatonic U
Movie • 2021
Professor McMichaels
The Final Days
Movie • 1989
Tricia Nixon Cox
Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven's Nightmares
Movie • 2006
Narrator
Thing in the Dark
Movie • 2016
JC
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
Pru Dowler
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Laura Maples
Cheers
TV • 1982
Beth Curtis
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Donna Marks
The Agency
TV • 2001
Jennifer Steward
Otherworld
TV • 1985
The Division
TV • 2001
Sharon
Judging Amy
TV • 1999
Denise Wharton
My Two Dads
TV • 1987
Dana
Cold Case
TV • 2003
Sonya Witkowski (2004)
Walker, Texas Ranger
TV • 1993
Alicia
Diagnosis: Murder
TV • 1993
Maureen
Profiler
TV • 1996
Lee Armstrong
Quantum Leap
TV • 1989
Suzanne Elsinger
Silk Stalkings
TV • 1991
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Tina Vincent
JAG
TV • 1995
Helene Dugan
Highlander: The Series
TV • 1992
Randi McFarland
ER
TV • 1994
Mrs. Adams
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
TV • 1987
Mary Ellen
Jessica Novak
TV • 1981
The Powers of Matthew Star
TV • 1982
University Hospital
TV • 1995
The Rookie
TV • 2018
Meredith Russell
The Movies That Made Us
TV • 2019
Self
Dexter
TV • 2006
Social Worker
JAG
TV • 1995
Diane Akers
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV • 2000
Tina
Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
Bridgit Cagney
Highlander: The Series
TV • 1992
Randi MacFarland
Station 19
TV • 2018
Laura
Teachers Only
TV • 1982
All Rise
TV • 2019
Caroline Halliwell
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
TV • 1979
Laura
The Drew Carey Show
TV • 1995
Tina