Amanda Wyss

Acting

Amanda Wyss

Born 1960-11-24 · Manhattan Beach, California, USA

Amanda Wyss (born November 24, 1960) is an American film and television actress. She began her career in the early 1980s in teen roles including Lisa in the coming-of-age comedy film Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Tina Gray in the slasher film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and Beth in the film Better Off Dead (1985). She had a supporting role as investigative reporter Randi McFarland in the television series Highlander: The Series (1992–1993). She played Woody's ex-girlfriend, Beth, in two episodes of Cheers in the mid-1980s.

Acting credits

A Nightmare on Elm Street poster
7.4

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984

Monster-in-Law poster
6.2

Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting bliss: Kevin's overbearing and controlling mother, Viola. Fearing she'll lose her son's affections forever, Viola decides to break up the happy couple by becoming the world's worst mother-in-law.

Monster-in-Law

2005

Silverado poster
6.9

Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail, and learn who their real friends are.

Silverado

1985

Fast Times at Ridgemont High poster
6.8

A group of Southern-California high school students ignore their studies in favor of indulging in their teenage distractions.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1982

Badland poster
6.2

Detective Matthias Breecher, hired to track down the worst of the Confederate war criminals, roams the Old West seeking justice. His resolve is tested when he meets a determined pioneer woman who is far more than she seems.

Badland

2019

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy poster
7.8

For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

2010

Better Off Dead... poster
6.6

High school student Lane Meyer sinks into suicidal depression when his girlfriend dumps him for jock Roy Stalin, the high school ski racing champion. Meanwhile, he has to deal with his eccentric family, a tenacious paperboy and an obnoxious neighbor whose mother is hosting a beautiful French exchange student named Monique.

Better Off Dead...

1985

Hunter's Moon poster
3.7

A trio of young sisters are attacked by local thugs. Then a force inhabiting the orchard exacts its revenge.

Hunter's Moon

2020

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story poster
6.6

Robert Englund has become one of the most revolutionary horror icons of our generation. This intimate portrait captures the man behind the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise and features interviews with Englund, Lin Shaye, Eli Roth, Tony Todd and more.

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

2022

Shakma poster
5.5

A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game.

Shakma

1990

Powwow Highway poster
6.8

Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.

Powwow Highway

1989

To Die For poster
4.5

L.A. real estate agent Kate Wooten gets a new lease on life when she learns that her new client, a mysterious and handsome man named Vlad, is looking for a house isolated in the Hollywood Hills where he wants to live and doesn't want to be disturbed. It doesn't take long for Kate to fall in love with her new client and to learn that he's a real vampire.

To Die For

1988

Deadly Impact poster
4.9

Deadly Impact follows hard-nosed cop Thomas Armstrong (Flanery) whose life was shattered when he became the helpless target of a mastermind murderer. Returning home after a much-needed break, Armstrong joins the FBI to seek revenge and help track down the same killer that threatened his existence, however this time the assassin is back to terrorize not just a single person, but the entire city.

Deadly Impact

2010

Strategic Command poster
5.0

Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed soldiers led by wanted criminal Carlos Gruber, break into the FBI research lab. They steal large amounts of a newly created germ warfare chemical called Bromax-360, loosing two of their men in the process before escaping into the night.

Strategic Command

1997

The Sandman poster
5.6

A monster from a little girl's nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her.

The Sandman

2017

Big Legend poster
6.0

An ex-soldier ventures into the Pacific Northwest to uncover the truth behind his fiance's disappearance.

Big Legend

2018

My Mother's Secret Life poster
8.0

16 year old Tobi has just lost her father, whom she has been living with. She finds her mother's address in his papers. So Tobi builds up a fantasy of what her mother, Ellen Blake, must be like. But when she goes to see her, she finds out her mother is a high priced call-girl.

My Mother's Secret Life

1984

Gunsmoke: To the Last Man poster
8.0

Retired marshal Matt Dillon tracks Arizona rustlers and lands in the middle of the 1880s Pleasant Valley War.

Gunsmoke: To the Last Man

1992

Thing in the Dark poster
5.0

A mysterious creature is wreaking havoc on suburban Pasadena. There have been reports of people going missing, while others reported being followed in the dark. The incidents have entirely taken place between dusk and dawn.

Thing in the Dark

2016

Force: Five poster
4.2

A martial-arts expert leads a team of fellow martial artists to rescue a senator's daughter from an island ruled by the evil leader of a fanatical religious cult.

Force: Five

1981

The Final Days poster
6.9

The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.

The Final Days

1989

This House Possessed poster
5.9

A sinister force permeating a secluded mountain estate convinces the nurse/companion of rock star Parker Stevenson, who has had a nervous collapse, that the house is alive and determined to keep her prisoner.

This House Possessed

1981

Triggered poster
2.0

Callee Bishop has a lot of issues. Besides the fact that her town is full of brain dead bigots, there's a serial killer on the loose and, now, no one's taking her problems seriously. With the help of her friend, Ian, Callee devises a plan to get the attention back on her and her issues by faking an attack from the killer. Callee's plan backfires when the real killer sets their sights on the two friends in an effort to make them the victims they've been claiming to be. How can Callee and Ian find their way out of their web of lies before the killer claims them as yet another one of their many victims?

Triggered

2019

Bloodfist IV: Die Trying poster
5.3

When Danny unknowingly repossesses the car of a powerful arms merchant, it sets off a chain of violent retaliation. After his friends are killed and his daughter is kidnapped, Danny takes matters into his own hands. It does not matter that the CIA and the FBI are also involved the Dragon's fire is in his fists!

Bloodfist IV: Die Trying

1992