Amy Brenneman

Amy Brenneman played Violet Turner in Private Practice.

Biography[]

Amy's mother, a superior court judge, was one of the first women to graduate from Harvard.^[1] Her father is an environmental lawyer.^[source?] Amy is also a graduate of Harvard, where she majored in comparative religion. She spent one semester studying sacred dances in Nepal. While in college, she formed the Cornerstone Theater Company, a touring production company that takes classics to small towns and encourages locals to participate in them. After touring for five years, she moved to New York, where she became a teacher in Brooklyn.^[source?]

Career[]

Filmography[]

Sweet Girl (2021)
Foster Boy (2019)
Her Mind in Pieces (2019)
Peel (2019)
Monster Challenge (short) (2018)
Here Now (short) (2017)
The Get (2017)
In the Shadows of the Rainbow (short) (2016)
The Face of Love (2013)
Words and Pictures (2013)
Mother and Child (2009)
Downloading Nancy (2008)
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
88 Minutes (2007)
Nine Lives (2005)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Off the Map (2003)
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
Mary Cassatt: An American Impressionist (1999)
ATF (1999)
The Suburbans (1999)
Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
City of Angels (1998)
Lesser Prophets (1997)
Nevada (1997)
Daylight (1996)
Fear (1996)
Heat (1996)
Casper (1995)
Bye Bye Love (1995)
Pig in the Python (1992)

Television[]

The Shining Girls (2022)
The Old Man (mini-series) (2022)
Tell Me Your Secrets (2021)
These Days (short) (2021)
Goliath (2019)
Jane the Virgin (2018)
The Leftovers (2014-2017)
Veep (2017)
No Tomorrow (2016)
Reign (2014-2015)
Private Practice (2007-2013)
Robot Chicken (2011)
Grey's Anatomy (2007)
Judging Amy (1999-2005)
Frasier (1998-1999)
Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1997)
NYPD Blue (1993-1994)
Murder, She Wrote (1992)
Middle Ages (1992)

Notes and Trivia[]

She remains good friends with her Private Practice co-stars.^[source?]
Looking back on the series in a Facebook live video for the series' 10 year anniversary, she stated her favorite episode is Mourning Sickness because of the getting high in the bathtub scenes.^[source?]
In an Instagram live video with Paul Adelstein, she revealed that before she got cast, she forgot her top secret and watermarked backdoor pilot script on a movie set.^[source?]
In the same video, she said her most memorable guest star on the show was Abigail Spencer.^[source?]