Amy Aquino

Amy Aquino is an American television, film, and stage actress. A graduate of Harvard and Yale University, Aquino has appeared in television series such as Brooklyn Bridge, ER and Being Human. She was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in Picket Fences. She is currently coSecretaryTreasurer of the SAGAFTRA. Aquino currently stars in Amazon Studioss Bosch as Lt. Grace Billets.

Aquino was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, to Adele Frances and Salvatore Aquino. She first acted in junior high school productions. She went on to Harvard University, studying premed with biology as a major. In her final year, she realised that 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 to Minneapolis on a recommendation where she gained her first roles. She enrolled at Yale University School of Drama in 1986 after two years of rejections.

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