Amanda Brooke Lerner

Amanda recently co-starred in Comedy Central’s Awkwafina is Nora from Queens as B.D. Wong's Blind-Date-from-Hell and opposite Omari Hardwick on Starz Power. She's had Guest Starring roles on Nat Geo, HBO, A+E, and Lifetime, to name a few. Amanda is a series regular in a variety of award-winning pilots and web series. You may recognize Amanda as Olga in the wildly popular Optimum: The Unmovers spots.

Amanda has had principal roles in over fifty independent films. She played mom to 2x Emmy Winner Julia Garner (Ozark) and to John D’Leo (The Family, The Wrestler). She won Best Actress for The Cartographer at LIFFE and for Daffodil at CRISFF and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Kill Al, The House on Cox Curve and Sasha.

Amanda holds a BFA in Acting from Rutgers under the direction of Bill Esper and Maggie Flanigan and currently studies with Deborah Headwall and Larry Moss. She’s a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA, serving on the National Low Budget Film Committee since 2019.

A veteran of the stage, Amanda’s recently played the leading role in Good Grief, also by Kirt Shineman and directed by Graydon Gund, about a woman who witnesses her son being killed in a Terrorist attack. Other favorite regional credits include Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire and Beatrice in The Effect of Gamma Rays on man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.

A 4th Generation New Yorker and a self-proclaimed sugar addict, Amanda is obsessed with Mid Century Modern design and vintage dresses. She lives in Upstate Manhattan (aka as Inwood) with a one-eyed Maine Coon Cat named Shadi, who’s an absolute beast and will never accept you. Beware.

She is the Founder and CEO of The Actor & The Biz, an audition + career coaching biz that helps actors stop struggling and start booking more jobs in less time.

As a HoH Person, Amanda is on a mission to establish authentic representation in the entertainment world for actors caught between the deaf and hearing worlds, to neutralize the stigma and #makehearingaidscool