Bellamy Young was born in Ashville, NC in 1970. Growing up she took an interest in performing and pageants. She graduated from Ashveille High School in 1987, the same year she won the Buncome County Junior Miss Title before taking the North Carolina state crown. She studied drama at Yale and did some work at Oxford. Her New York stage credits include Mary, the just off the bus newcomer, in Cy Coleman's The Life in addition to roles in Great Expectations, Merrily We Roll Along, and Randy Newman's Faust. She broke into television work on the ABC soap Another World, which led to guest spots on such varied shows as The X-Files, The Drew Carey Show and a memorable turn as a cold-blooded Canadian trophy wife on the "True North" episode of Law & Order. She has also had recurring roles on CSI Miami and Scrubs, while her only "starring" turn was on USA's short-lived tech western Peacemakers. Even with a successful career in televison, on stage and in film Bellamy has not forgotten her roots. In 2006 she was a co-producer, and in the cast for the film Simple Things, which was shot on location near her hometown of Ashville, NC.
Bellamy's other film credits include Mission (2001), Swatters (2002), Darcy's Off-White Wedding, and Eve of Understanding (2006).
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Bellamy appears on the original Broadway soundtrack for Great Expectations, singing "This Boy" with three other actors and solo on "My Dear Mr. Pip."
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Bellamy is a natural brunette but she appeared blonde in her role as Dr. Grace Miller on NBC's Scrubs.
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Bellamy appeared in both The Real Inspector Hound and The Actor's Nightmare during the summer of 2001. The plays were sponsored by Penn State's theatre department and featured Law & Order vet George Dzundza.
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Bellamy's Broadway debut as a wide-eyed innocent (literally) just off the bus from Minnesota in Cy Coleman's The Life was described as "a most auspicious Broadway debut" by Elyse Sommer in Curtain Up.
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Bellamy (then known as Amy) was voted "most talented" in her senior class.
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She won the title of Buncombe County Junior Miss on her way to the North Carolina state crown. Bellamy won the title of North Carolina Junior Miss in 1987.
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Bellamy was the associate producer for the 2006 film Simple Things which was shot in North Carolina and was first screened in her hometown of Ashville.
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Among her off-Broadway credits Bellamy lists a role in Randy Newman's update of Faust.
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Her Broadway credits include the role of Mary in Cy Coleman's The Life and Meg in the revival of Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim. Her other theatrical credits include Book of Days and My Fair Lady.
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Bellamy won the title of North Carolina Junior Miss in 1987.
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(Scrubs Casting Director) Brett Benner: (on his casting of Bellamy) The producers wanted us to go after a star, but the star's agent said she just didn't respond to the show. So we brought in Bellamy, and she nailed the audition and got the part. It's really gratifying when we can actually cast the show--when the process actually works. And it's so much better to be creative than just slamming a celebrity into a part, where sometimes it's at the expense of the role, but it gets more people to tune in.
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