Amanda Lee Aday is an American

United States

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 actress. Born in New York City

New York City

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, Aday is best known for her recurring role as Dora Mae Dreifuss on the first season of the 2003-2005 HBO series Carnivàle

Carnivàle

Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes...

.

Aday is the daughter of actor/musician

Musician

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 Meat Loaf

Meat Loaf

Michael Lee Aday , better known by his stage name, Meat Loaf, is an American hard rock musician and actor...

 and Leslie Aday and half sister of singer Pearl Aday

Pearl Aday

Pearl Aday is an American female singer and adopted daughter of Meat Loaf and his wife Leslie Aday. Pearl, whose biological father was the drummer for Janis Joplin’s band, Full Tilt Boogie, was adopted by Meat Loaf after he married her mother....

. She attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center, a summer theatre/dance camp in the Catskill Mountains

Catskill Mountains

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 in New York, from 1990 through 1996, and then graduated from the prestigious Idyllwild Arts Academy in California. She then majored in theatre at the California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

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. Amanda's film roles include Crazy In Alabama

Crazy in Alabama

Crazy in Alabama is a 1999 comedy-drama film directed by Antonio Banderas, written by Mark Childress , and starring Melanie Griffith as an abused wife who heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt...

, the indie film The Mummy An' The Armadillo, National Lampoon's Pledge This!

National Lampoon's Pledge This!

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. In addition to her work on Carnivàle

Carnivàle

Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes...

, she has guest starred on the hit TV shows Boston Public

Boston Public

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, ER

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and My Name Is Earl

My Name Is Earl

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. She is set to appear in the indie feature South Dakota shooting this spring.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	To Catch A Yeti	The Yeti
1999	Crazy In Alabama Crazy in Alabama Crazy in Alabama is a 1999 comedy-drama film directed by Antonio Banderas, written by Mark Childress , and starring Melanie Griffith as an abused wife who heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt...	Assistant at Bewitched
2000	Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back	Clerk
2002	Boston Public Boston Public Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox. It centered on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was named for the real public school district in which it takes place...	Carrie Jenkins
2003	Carnivàle Carnivàle Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes...	Dora Mae Dreifuss	Guest star, episodes: "Milfay" "After The Ball Is Over" "Tipton" "Black Blizzard" "Babylon" "Pick A Number"
2004	The Mummy An' The Armadillo	Bevers
2006	National Lampoon's Pledge This! National Lampoon's Pledge This! National Lampoon's Pledge This! is a 2006 comedy film starring Paris Hilton, who also served as an executive producer. The film was very poorly received and went straight to video.-Plot:...	Maxine Picker
2008	South Dakota: A Woman's Right To Choose	Jane
	ER ER (TV series) ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...	Pregnant Waitress	Guest star, episode: "Let It Snow"
	My Name Is Earl My Name Is Earl My Name Is Earl is an American television comedy series created by Greg Garcia that was originally broadcast on the NBC television network from September 20, 2005, to May 14, 2009, in the United States...	Tammy	Guest star, episode: "Orphan Earl"
2009	Restoration Dogs	Lady Long Tongue

External links

• Amanda Aday Fans - Unofficial website dedicated to Amanda