Editing Amanda Plummer (section)

== Early life ==
Plummer was born on March 23, 1957, in New York City, the only child of American actress [[Tammy Grimes]] and Canadian actor [[Christopher Plummer]].<ref>[http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/christopher-plummer.html Christopher Plummer biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107102756/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/christopher-plummer.html |date=November 7, 2012 }}, thebiographychannel.co.uk. Retrieved May 6, 2014.</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=February 5, 2021|title=Christopher Plummer: Star of The Sound of Music dies at 91|language=en-gb|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55954950|access-date=February 5, 2021}}</ref> Her father said that they named their daughter Amanda Michael after Amanda Prynne, a character from the play ''[[Private Lives]]'', and the actress [[Michael Learned]].<ref name="Plummer2009">{{cite book|first=Christopher |last=Plummer|title=In Spite of Myself: A Memoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYC9TYz3fUQC&pg=PA265|date=2008|place=New York|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|isbn=978-0-307-39679-2|pages=264–265|via=Google Books|accessdate=October 29, 2012}}</ref> She attended the elite Trinity School before graduating from the United Nations International School (UNIS). She attended [[Middlebury College]] for two and a half years, and as a young adult, studied acting at the [[Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre]] in New York City.<ref>Daaley, Suzanne. [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/06/arts/a-theater-child-takes-center-stage.html?pagewanted=all&pagewanted= "A Theater Child Takes Center Stage"] ''The New York Times'', September 6, 1981</ref>