Amy Jo Johnson

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Biography

Recent Role:
Julianna 'Jules' Callaghan on Flashpoint
Gender:
Female
Born:
10-6-1970
Birthplace:
Cape Cod, Massachusetts (USA)
Birth Name:
Amy Jo Johnson
AKA:
A.J. Johnson
Amy Jo Johnson was born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts on October 6, 1970. As a young small-town girl she wanted to be a gymnast. She started at the age of seven and developed to high national standard, competing all over US and also in Europe. She aimed at the Olympics, but when she chipped a bone in her elbow she had to give up that dream at the age of 17. She started concentrating on acting and became a familiar face in community theater projects. She graduated from Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School, South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and headed for New York pursuing her new dream.

MoreAmy spent two years in New York studying at Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and the American Musical Dramatic Academy. As it turned out her gymnastic skills would come to great use also in her pursuit for an acting career.
The producers of the upcoming TV show Power Rangers were looking to recruit the role of Kimberly Ann Hart, the Pink Ranger, on the first installment of the series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and were looking for someone with gymnastic ability. Amy was casted and she moved to California. This role became her big breakthrough, as the show went on to become an unexpectedly huge success. It still ranks as her most notable role, and to this day Kimberly is still a fan favorite of fans, and considered one of the best characters of the show.

After filming 137 episodes and a movie as the Pink Ranger from 1993 to 1995 (the longest tenure of a female ranger), she left the show and went on to do various movies, theater roles and tv-show guest star appearances. She briefly reprized her role as Kimberly Hart in 1997 for the second Power Rangers movie, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. In 1998 she was casted in her second most notable role, as Julie Emrick on Felicity. A role she almost turned down because she wanted to spend time with her mother, on her last days fighting uterine cancer. Amy later cited the main reason she left Felicity after two and a half years, was because she wanted to grieve her mothers death two years earlier. Grieving her mother properly was something Amy found difficult to manage as part of such a high profiled show.

Amy spent the next years doing various work. She pursued her music, painted and did various smaller acting parts. Her music was something she brought to an audience during her time on Felicity. Her character was originally written as a dancer, but Amy convinced them to change it into singer/songwriter. In 2001 she released her first album The Trans-American Treatment, and performed live in the Los Angeles area alongside The Amy Jo Johnson Band. She later went on to do solo performances, and in 2005 she released her second album Imperfect.



From 2004 she again appeared in tv-shows as a recurring cast member on The Division and Wildfire, and in various movies and guest star appearances.

In 2008 she released singles Dancing In-Between and Since You're Gone. She was also in 2008 casted as Julianne Callaghan, one of the leading stars on Flashpoint. In December 2008 Amy gave birth to her first child, a daugher.

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    A pink ranger. hide show

    It is refreshing to see someone like Amy Jo Johnson shed the power ranger ilk. She now is in a modern day show that helps her showcase her acting instead of her gymnastics and fighting. I remember watching her on Power Rangers and I have to say she wasn't a bad actress then and is definately not now. I think she almost looks the same as well as acts the same way, but she has aged a bit. Nonetheless, she has managed to revive her acting career and has done well so far on the show. Overall, I'd say that is good. Thank you.

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    A Woman of many talents, she brings class to any project she's involved with. hide show

    To me, Amy Jo Johnson has always been given less credit than she deserved because she was in the Power Rangers. I've always thought she was the only one in that show that really was worth watching. Then again, I thought the same thing about her on Felicity too. If it hadn't been for Amy, I wouldn't have bothered watching that show either. She should have been given the lead role on that. She's far better than Keri Russell ever was. Her depth was clear in the two-part episode in which she was raped, and again in the made-for-television movie "Perfect Body", in which she portrayed a gymnast who was very close to destroying her body because of the emphasis the sport places on being thin. It was a wake-up call to the dangers involved, but I wonder how many payed attention.
    She is also a very talented musician, though once again, very underrated. She's even put out a couple cds if I'm not mistaken, proving once again there are more sides to her than she's given credit for. Not to mention, she was born in my own home state, so she's gotta be better than average, anyway, right?

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    okay so Amy was the one and only Pink Ranger and will always be know as the pink power ranger. but to me she is know as amy jo johnson the singer/ power ranger. hide show

    okay so amy jo johnson to me is known as Amy Jo Johnson the singer and pink power ranger. But evev though she said she would never be able to live down as being the pink power ranger everyone that watched MMPR knows that she is wat brought the style to the show. And when her friend died (thuy Trang) she was there for her funeral with her other 3 cast mates (austin, david, and walter.) unfortunitly Jason David Frank could not be there for he has to go to his brothers funeral that same year. But what im trying to say is that Amy you will be know for more then just power rangers and i lvoe your music. You Rock Amy.

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    she is my favorite actress hide show

    when i saw little when the real power rangers air i love this show because she in it and she my favorite actress and she hot and pretty and power rangers in my time were good and good acting and good story and story line this show i never miss. i saw her Susie Q that when my last time i saw her. so was she in the any of the new ones does any one watch this show now or u guys all stop because the old power rangers are gone

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    Amy is Georgous hide show

    I didn't watch Amy Jo Johnson on Power Ranger TV show. I can remember, I couldn't sit though five minutes of the show and once more, Amy Jo Johnson is wearing a mask most of the time. But I did catch her on "Felicity" and she is gorgous. I got pictures of her a home and she is beautiful. Now today, Amy Jo Johnson doesn't need the suceess of Power Rangers to boost her career, I'm in love with this former Power Ranger star and I don't care. She is very hot and she doesn't have to wear a mask. Her beauty is all right with me.

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