Amanda Michaels

Amanda Michaels is a stage-trained actress who began her film career in the fall of 2007. Amanda was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in South Orange County, California, with her mother and her younger brother. Amanda's affinity for acting led her to the theater at an early age and, after appearing in lead roles in a number of stage plays in high school and community theater, she applied to the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in Los Angeles. After a year in the theater program, Amanda decided to pursue broader interests and changed her major to Study of World Religions, ultimately earning her BA from UCLA in that program. Amanda continued to act in regional theater and her roles included well-reviewed turns on stage as a female version of the iconic male character Mark Anthony in a production of Julius Caesar (LA Weekly Review) as well as a German-language portrayal of the pivotal character of die Senora in Max Frisch's Andorra. In late 2007, Amanda was inspired to make a long dreamed-of move to the medium of film and her early success obtaining lead roles in well-received short and short-feature independent films prompted her to leave graduate school, where she was pursuing her Masters Degree in religious studies, to dedicate herself to her work in film.