She portrayed Amanda Cousins in the serial opera “All My Children” for two seasons in her breakthrough role in 1982. Amanda Bearse also starred in the television movie “First Affair” in 1983. She subsequently started making movies.
She had a little part in “Protocol” at first, but in 1985 she played Nicole Ferret in “Fraternity Vacation,” and the same year she starred with Chris Sarandon and William Ragsdale in one of her biggest roles as Amy Peterson in the classic horror movie “Fright Night.”
