Amanda is played by Victoria Rowell. In the first three TV Movies (Diagnosis of Murder, The House on Sycamore Street and A Twist of the Knife), Amanda is played by Cynthia Gibb.
It is revealed in the series that the character of Amanda was an orphan (just as Victoria Rowell was), taken to an orphanage when she was younger and soon adopted. Her adopted father was an owner of a yacht, and his sailors were always good friends with the family. When she was six, Amanda took up ballet. She stopped dancing for medical school, but returns to it at the end of season eight. She once fainted during medical school at the sight of her first corpse. She is constantly kidded about it in the first two seasons. It was revealed in season 1 that she was considering changing her specialty.
At one point during the show Amanda's character was married once to Mr. Colin Livingston, a military man. In later episodes it is made clear that she is separated from Colin, however whether this is the result of his death in a plane crash or a divorce varies from one episode to the next.
Amanda's character has a child from her marriage with Colin, her son, C.J. (Colin Jesse). C.J. was delivered by the character of Jesse and Mark is chosen to be his godfather. Later in the series, she adopts another boy, named Deon, from his abusive parents.
Some facts:
-She used to be ballerina
-Home address 1200 Green Street
-Ideal saturday night: a great novel, a bowl of ice cream and the phone off the hook
-Won a MESSI award (Murder, My Suite)
-Mark is godfather to her son
-lost her money, and lived for a while in the community general hospital..
-she has had many different kind of hairstyles..
-she got married with Colin Livingston (she was Amanda Bentley-Livingston) in The Chapel of the Singing Nuns in Las Vegas. In the episode "Murder By The Book" Amanda find out that her marriage to Colin may not be real as the church was not registered at the time. Se tried to re-merry Colin via the radio..
-she saw a murder while being on internet and watching webcamera.
-she was hurt when Community General Hospital exploded (Resurrection)
