Amy Aquino is one of the most popular and richest TV Actress who was born on March 20, 1957 in New Jersey, United States. Her most well-known role is the Screen Actors Guild Award nominated role for the Dr. Joanna Diamond in the CBS series Picket Fences and for her role as the Dr. Janet Coburn in the long-running medical drama ER, this sought-after TV actress also starred on the show as Judge Greta Anastassio on Judging Amy along with Peggy Ardolino in Everybody Loves Raymond.
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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 1986, 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 1989. 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.
A born in Teaneck, New Jersey, she was one of the daughters Adele Mesiti and Salvatore Aquino. She got married to Drew McCoy in 1995.
