Amanda Righetti

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Biography

Recent Role:
Grace Van Pelt on The Mentalist
Gender:
Female
Born:
4-4-1983
Birthplace:
St. George, Utah, USA
Amanda was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress. After securing a role in the pilot No Place Like Home, Righetti caught the eye of Fox executives, who cast her as Hailey Nichol in the Fox hit The O.C. when No Place Like Home was not picked up. This led to her starring role on the Fox drama Reunion.





More Amanda doesn't only act. She also holds co-producer credits for 1997 movie Missing Emotions and the 2000 movie The Gentleman Bandit, and producer credit for the 2007 movie Pipeline. She also starred in Pipeline, and have other movie roles like in the 2008 movie Role Models and the 2009 movie Friday the 13th.

Amanda married director Jordan Alan on April 29, 2006. In 2008 she was cast for the role of Grace Van Pelt on The Mentalist.

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    TV.com has set a ceiling on the number of quotes that can be submitted to an editorless guide to ten (10). I've set mine to about fifteen (15). The reason being the blurb page for a person shouldn't feature everything a person says, but quotes likely to be interesting for people who doesn't knowMore the person that well when they visit the page. While the blurb page become very hard to navigate with 50ish quotes and equally many trivias, everyone with a special interest in that many quotes shouldn't mind taking a detour into this forum. If you think your potential quote submission is more interesting and/or more up-to-date than those on the blurb page, just go ahead and submit it. If I'm still editor and don't agree, it just might end up here instead. I've transferred some of the excess quotes from the Quotes Section of the guide. Please feel free to add on quotes to this thread, but keep out discussions and opinions. Start a new tread if you'd like to comment on or discuss Amanda Righetti's quotes. Amanda on Amanda : Amanda : There was that pretty-girl factor. People would ostracize me without knowing a thing about me. Amanda : I guess being pretty has its advantages. Amanda on hair and fashion : Amanda : I had this really nasty blond hair, then I went to black right after that, which was even worse. Amanda : My hair got a little fried from the dying and one day I decided to chop it all off. It was a boy-short-and-spiked kind of thing. Amanda on roles and acting : Amanda : I'll be wearing a lot of skimpy clothes in Reunion . Amanda : My character in Reunion , Jenna, is very much about the whole '80s Madonna thing: loud and attention-getting. Amanda : Work has been really good to me this year, but I've had my moments of complete grumpiness, like when we're shooting on location and it's really hot and sticky outside. Amanda on relationships and such : Amanda : One time, I had this boyfriend who cheated on me. I cheated back and then we broke up and then got back together. It was very soap-opera drama: "I love you. No, I hate you!" Amanda on this and that and everything else : Amanda : I've been to strip clubs several times. I just have a drink and watch the fun. It's surreal to sip a cocktail with naked ladies dancing randomly and gyrating on poles.

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    7.5 Good
    Underutilized. hide show

    Looking at her IMDb bio, I know I haven't seen Amanda Righetti in anything else (though I'm surprised I don't recall her from CSI appearances), and yet she has one of those "I know I've seen her somewhere" faces.
    More importantly I think she's got a lot of as yet unused potential, and if "The Mentalist" producers and writers were smart they would ensure better role development for "Van Pelt".
    She and "Rigsby" do already, but could certainly provide more of the comic relief in the show and their story line would be a sensible and enjoyable adjunct to the whole crime-mentalist thing...I like back-stories, what can I say??!!
    Here is to more air time and good story line for "Grace Van Pelt", and to a long and developing career for Amanda Righetti.

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    9.5 Superb
    She's amazing in the Mentalist. hide show

    I've only really seen her in The Mentalist but I'm sure I've seen her in something else too (although can't find it in tv.com). I think she would make a great young Laura Croft in a reboot of the appalling Tomb Raider movies, although I do hope they make more The Mentalist and give her a more active role apart from the computer geek surfing the net and checking on hotel reservations etc.. She had some very good lines in the Pilot and the Rigsby/Van Pelt relationship is always amusing.

    She also reminds me a bit of Buffy's sister (Amanda Trachenburg??) but a bit older

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    10 Perfect
    beauty, knock-out babe good actress hide show

    She is a real Beautiful woman. Yes, she's an absolute breathless babe. . . Not to mention, good actress. Npt memorable but good. And what a perfect angel face. . . Very feminine. . . Did i mention breathless babe? ;o)

    It is strange that i've never heard about her before her recuring role in The Mentalist, as a regular cast member. She play a tought girl, investigating crime cases with the mentalist. She play the kind of anoying babe full her her self, always ready to **** or to argue sarcasticaly with anyone . . . The character reminds me an ex-girlfriend.

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    Such a pleasure. hide show

    I've seen Amanda Righetti only in the Mentalist, but her performance really stuck in my memory. It's hard to forget a woman that beautiful. Nowadays tv-shows are full of identical fake-blond and fake-tanned girls. It's hard to tell one from another, they all look the same. Fortunately Mentalist has not only an outstanding leading man, but two remarkable ladies that catch your eye from the very first episode. Robin Tunney is the sweetest thing and Amanda is one of the most beautiful women in show-business. She reminds me of Renaissance belles, she has that pure beauty that we hardly meet in modern world. And she is really good in what she's doing.

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    This show needs to get Amanda out of the background and feature her in more episodes. hide show

    Amanda is a beautiful girl and a talented actress. This show needs to get her out of the background and feature her in more episodes. They also need to dress her better, without officer's trousers and blouse, to show her attractive features better.On North Shore and O.C. she was a 10+, beautifully dressed and featured in many of the episodes! She contributed greatly to making those shows such a success.

    There has been one episode this season where she had a decent role. She had a boyfriend that was the criminal and who romanced her and worked his way inside the operation. She was great. Her acting kept the viewer's attention and was very appropriate to her role in the episode. Of course, her beauty and sensuousness, will keep any male's attention.

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