Amanda Setton is one of the most popular and richest TV Actress who was born on December 16, 1985 in New York City, New York State, United States. She became known for her roles as Penelope Shafai in Gossip Girl from 2007 to 2010 and played Kimberly Andrews on One Life to Live from 2009 to 2011.
She starred on Gossip Girl with Chace Crawford.
Setton was born in New York City, and grew up in Great Neck, where she was president of her high school’s theater club. She is Jewish, and is of both Syrian-Jewish and Austrian-Jewish descent. Setton majored in drama at Ithaca College, where she graduated in 2007. In her junior year she studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain in an IES program. Setton completed a comprehensive two-year Meisner technique program at The Actor’s Workshop of Ithaca under the instruction of Eliza VanCort.
Setton played Penelope Shafai on the teen drama Gossip Girl from 2008 to 2012. She made her debut on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live as Kimberly Andrews on August 14, 2009. Setton also had small roles in the 2008 films Sex and the City and What Happens in Vegas. The website Daytime Confidential reported on February 21, 2010 that Setton had taped her last episode as Kim on One Life to Live despite being offered a contract and a pay increase.
She dated Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine.
