Amelia Campbell

Amelia Campbell

Birth : 1965-08-04, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

History

Amelia Campbell (born August 4, 1965) is a Canadian-born, American-raised actress. She was born in Montreal but grew up in Ithaca, New York. A stage and film actress, she has appeared in such films as The Paper, My Louisiana Sky, Single White Female, and Lorenzo's Oil. Campbell was born in Montreal but grew up in Ithaca, New York. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1988. She is married to Anthony Arkin (b. 1967), younger brother of actor Adam Arkin. In 1990, Campbell played a small role in The Exorcist III. In 1992 she played roles in Single White Female and Lorenzo's OilShe appeared in Ron Howard's film The Paper in 1994. In 1999 she played Patty the stage manager in Macbeth in Manhattan, which was filmed in one of New York City's historic theatres. In 2001 she played the role of Corinna Ramsey Parker in My Louisiana Sky, directed by her brother-in-law Adam Arkin. In 2008, she played Sandra Zeller in A Dog Year. She played Maggie Harmon in Tim Blake Nelson's 2010 film, Leaves of Grass, which starred Edward Norton.

Profile

Amelia Campbell

Movies

Things Like This
Gretta
When two guys with the same name start falling in love it seems like everything has aligned for them to be together. But is fate ever exactly how you expect it to be?
Sender
Dr. Aymes
A doctor finds an unconscious, young woman on a remote island in the North Atlantic. The mystery of the woman’s identity, how she got there, and her ever-increasing psychic abilities, ignite a violent international race to find her — with terrifying results.
We the Animals
Woman in Van
Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
What Maisie Knew
Ms. Baine
The story frames on 7-year-old Maisie, caught in a custody battle between her mother – a rock and roll icon – and her father. What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos of adult life seen entirely from a child’s point of view.
Coming Up Roses
Mrs. Doyle
A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed small towns, money woes, failed love affairs, and bouts of depression.
Leaves of Grass
Maggie Harmon
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
A Dog Year
Sandra Zeller
Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined because of abuse. Despite a series of mishaps, Jon decides to keep trying with the dog, and he rents a dilapidated farm house to give the dog room to run. A local handyman refers Jon to a woman who might be able to help him train the dog. Reluctantly, Jon gives her a try. Is the dog the problem, or the owner?
My Louisiana Sky
Corrina Ramsey Parker
A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
Picture Perfect
Susan
A young advertising executive's life becomes increasingly complicated when, in order to impress her boss, she pretends to be engaged to a man she has just met.
The Prosecutors
Carly Breen
Drama (and prospective pilot) about the lives of three women who work in the New York City DA's office: one a brilliant prosecutor of high-profile cases whose husband is shot and killed in an armed robbery; a second, her tough, bitter, chain-smoking, boozing, wheelchair-bound former mentor; a third, a Latina who is an ambitious legal intern.
Truman
Margaret Truman
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Mary Brandon Sherwood
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
A Simple Twist of Fate
Marsha Swanson
When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.
The Paper
Robin
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
Lorenzo's Oil
Murphy Family
Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.
Single White Female
Check Cashier
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek out a roommate in order to keep her spacious digs.
The Exorcist III
Young Girl in Dream (uncredited)
Fifteen years after the original film, the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is investigating a baffling series of murders on Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased serial killer. His investigation eventually leads him to a catatonic patient in a psychiatric hospital who has recently started to speak, claiming he is The Gemini and detailing the murders, but bears a striking resemblance to Father Damien Karras.