Amy Aquino McCoy (born March , ) is an American television, film, and
stage actress. The graduate of Harvard and Yale universities has
appeared in television series such as Brooklyn Bridge, ER, and Being
Human, and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role
in Picket Fences. She was co-Secretary/Treasurer of the SAG-AFTRA
until August and currently stars in Amazon Studios' television series
Bosch as Lt. Grace Billets.Aquino was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, to
Adele Frances (née Mesiti) and Salvatore Aquino. She first acted in
junior high school productions. At Harvard University she was pre-med,
majoring in biology. In her final year, she realised she was spending
more time acting than studying and so left to travel to New York to
take acting classes, while working at a law firm. She stayed there for
three years without landing any acting jobs, before traveling on a
recommendation to Minneapolis, where she gained her first roles. In ,
after two years of rejections, she enrolled at Yale University School
of Drama, where she studied three years.After Yale, Aquino spent the
next five years based in New York. While there she appeared with Kevin
Spacey at Playwrights Horizons and joined the Circle Repertory
Company. She appeared in Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles,
which won the Tony Award for Best Play in . Also that year, Aquino
appeared in both Moonstruck (as Loretta's hairdresser) and Working
Girl (as Melanie Griffith's secretary at the end of the film), her
first film roles.In , she was cast as one of the leads in the CBS
series Brooklyn Bridge. After the show was renewed for a second
season, Aquino moved to California to be closer to where it was being
filmed. After moving, she has primarily been in television roles,
including ER and Everybody Loves Raymond.
stage actress. The graduate of Harvard and Yale universities has
appeared in television series such as Brooklyn Bridge, ER, and Being
Human, and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role
in Picket Fences. She was co-Secretary/Treasurer of the SAG-AFTRA
until August and currently stars in Amazon Studios' television series
Bosch as Lt. Grace Billets.Aquino was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, to
Adele Frances (née Mesiti) and Salvatore Aquino. She first acted in
junior high school productions. At Harvard University she was pre-med,
majoring in biology. In her final year, she realised she was spending
more time acting than studying and so left to travel to New York to
take acting classes, while working at a law firm. She stayed there for
three years without landing any acting jobs, before traveling on a
recommendation to Minneapolis, where she gained her first roles. In ,
after two years of rejections, she enrolled at Yale University School
of Drama, where she studied three years.After Yale, Aquino spent the
next five years based in New York. While there she appeared with Kevin
Spacey at Playwrights Horizons and joined the Circle Repertory
Company. She appeared in Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles,
which won the Tony Award for Best Play in . Also that year, Aquino
appeared in both Moonstruck (as Loretta's hairdresser) and Working
Girl (as Melanie Griffith's secretary at the end of the film), her
first film roles.In , she was cast as one of the leads in the CBS
series Brooklyn Bridge. After the show was renewed for a second
season, Aquino moved to California to be closer to where it was being
filmed. After moving, she has primarily been in television roles,
including ER and Everybody Loves Raymond.
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