Is amanda bearse gay
Amanda Bearse took some second during the Seattle Movie Institute‘s open house this weekend to speak with Equality365.com. You probably retain Amanda from “Married with Children” and “Fright Night”. She is a quintessential member of the LGBT community and also a very successful director as well. Since moving to Seattle, she has finished a degree at Antioch University, started teaching acting at SFI, and directed a new webseries “Skirtchasers“, among many other things. We spoke about her life, plans, projects, productive with Meredith Baxter and lots more.
Thanks for the photo Gail Benzler
We really need to thank Gail and Steve of the Seattle Film Institute for helping make this video happen. Seattle Film Institute is a worldwide head and accredited school educating future filmmakers, producers and actors. I had a great time touring the school, learning about their programs and seeing the large number of attendees interested in the future of the film industry. The teachers and assist staff were very generous with their time and abilities. I could not have made this video without them.
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Before there was Ellen, there was Amanda Bearse.
The actress, then co-starring on Fox’s “Married … with Children,” became the first working TV actress on network television to come out. She was a trailblazer on the politically incorrect sitcom that launched the Fox network and ran for 11 seasons, from 1987-1997.
It starred Ed O’Neill as sad-sack shoe salesman Al Bundy,Katey Sagal as his lazy wife Peg, Christina Applegate as his dumb blonde daughter Kelly, and David Faustino as horndog son Bud. Bearse played next-door neighbor Marcy, a bank manager who clashed with Al about everything.
That, apparently, extended off-screen.
O’Neill and Bearse did not get along.
Perhaps that shouldn’t be too much of a surprise.
TV shows, especially successful, long-running shows, are filled with Type A creative types who are working lengthy hours under strenuous deadlines.
At one point, “I Cherish Lucy” could have been renamed “I Hate Lucy.” William Frawley hated Vivian Vance, who sometimes quarreled with Lucy, who endured a horrible marriage with Desi.
Ryan Murphy can
Amanda Bearse was the cover girl on the very first issue of Watermark back in August 1994. But the actress, renowned for her role as ditzy Marcy D’Arcy on the hit television series Married… with Children (1987-1997), played a far more significant role in LGBT history. A year before that she became the first actor on a primetime network show to come out. The Advocate cover story was massive news and broke soil for Ellen, Rosie and a cavalcade of entertainers.
Bearse is also hometown hero. At Winter Park Lofty School, legendary theater mentor Ann Derflinger encouraged her acting talent. In 1981,Bearse went to New York and landed a role on the soap opera All My Children that lasted for three years.
In 1985, director Tom Holland cast Bearse in his horror classic Fright Night. As Amy Peterson, Bearse transitioned from girl-next-door to bloodsucker and joined Kirsten Dunst (Interview With the Vampire) as one of the most memorable female vampires in film history. Bearse will join fellow cast members and other horror stars (Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, Burt Reynolds, BarryBostwick) at Spooky Empire’s Ultimate Halloween Weekend at the Hyatt Regency Orlando from Oct. 30-Nov.
“Lez Be Friends” (April 28, 1997)
For a lot of ’80s kids, Amanda Bearse was one of the first gay people they ever heard about. And while Bearse came out in 1993, she got to put LGBT themes in the spotlight in a 1997 episode in which she plays both Marcy D’Arcy and her lesbian cousin, Mandy. It’s a product of its time, for sure, but at its heart is a fairly thoughtful depiction of a happy, function person who’s better off for having come out of the closet. Bonus points for Elaine Hendrix.
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