Amy Aquino on screen and stage

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Amy Aquino is an American actress of television, film and stage. As a honors graduate in biology from Harvard Radcliffe Institute, she studied acting at the Yale School of Drama. She was accepted after three attempts and received an MFA. Aquino began her television career with guest spots in Easy Street (1987) and Hooperman (1987) before landing a lead role in the six-episode series One of the Boys (1989). There, she performed Bernice DiSalvo, the wisecracking best friend of Maria Conchita Navarro (Latin American star María Conchita Alonso) who struggled with relationships. She landed another main role in Brooklyn Bridge (1991–1993), which starred a Jewish family where Aquino's character, Phyllis Berger Silver, was the mother of Alan Silver. Although critically-acclaimed and a cult hit, Brooklyn Bridge's ratings were not strong enough to provide it more than two seasons. Her next lead was Lieutenant Grace Billets, superior of the title character who works in the Homicide Department of the...

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