Acting
Oct 2, 1981
Rigaud, Quebec, Canada
Amanda Walsh
Acting
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).
Feature Films (16)
Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have in turn made him become paranoid.
WarGames: The Dead Code
A freelance writer looking for romance sells a story to Cosmopolitan magazine about finding love in the workplace and goes undercover at a Finance Company.
Beauty & the Briefcase
Before heading off to college, a teenager and her two friends try to seduce a married man.
These Girls
After the sudden death of their midwife, an L.A. couple hires her hippie son to be their live-in doula.
Doula
A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.
Mercy
A comedy that revolves around the professional and personal lives of three smart, sophisticated twenty-something girls working on Capitol Hill.
Washingtonienne
Celebrity photographer Connor Mead lives life in the fast lane, committed to lifelong bachelorhood and simultaneous relationships with multiple women. On the eve of his younger brother Paul's wedding, Connor's mockery of love proves a real buzz-kill for everyone - including his childhood crush, Jenny, the one woman who always seemed immune to his considerable charms. Later that night, he gets a wake-up call from the ghost of his late Uncle Wayne, the hard-partying, legendary ladies' man who was Connor's mentor. Uncle Wayne has an urgent message which he delivers through three ghosts who guide Connor on an eye-opening tour of his romantic past, present and future. Along the way, they attempt to discern whether he will ever be able to change his ways -- and if there is any hope of him finding true love.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Television & Series (20)
When Nick Garrett was 18, he packed up his truck and said goodbye for a summer road trip that turned into 10 years of being away. He has since become a literary celebrity in New York, living off the fame and fortune of his best-selling novel and movie, based on his hometown friends. To the literary world, Nick defined a generation, but to his hometown, he betrayed them by sharing secrets. Now, without inspiration for a new book, Nick returns to his hometown to find that feelings toward him have changed.
October Road
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.
Castle
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.
Veronica Mars
Family is always unpredictable, so why write a family comedy when you can live dangerously and improvise instead? Like real families, you never know what will happen when you give characters total freedom. Adult siblings Cameron, Sharon and Jenna have many years of shared history in this small town. Like every other family on the planet, their history includes many mistakes. This is proven by the multiple marriages and many children in their close extended clan.
Sons & Daughters
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.
