Madchen Amik: biography, personal life, roles and films, photos

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

If you ask where Mädchen Amik was filmed, many will immediately answer: "Twin Peaks". But, of course, she is not an actress of one role, and her filmography includes more than seventy roles in TV shows and movies.

Childhood

December 12, 1970 in Sparks, Nevada, a girl with an unusual name was born. Her father Bill was a musician and her mother Judy was a German-born medical manager. It is thanks to these roots that Madchen bears such a name. In addition to the Germans, among the ancestors of Amik there are English, Swedes and Norwegians.

Already two years after the birth of the girl, her parents divorced. Mother married a second time. It should be noted that it was the stepfather who played an important role in the creative development of the girl. Thanks to him, she mastered playing the guitar, piano and even the violin. In addition, she studied ballet and modern dance.

From childhood, Madchen knew exactly who she would become in the future. At school, she attended acting classes, and immediately after her graduation, at the age of sixteen, she left for Los Angeles to achieve her goal of becoming an actress.

Career start

As soon as Amik moved to the "city of dreams", she was immediately offered a job in a modeling agency, although her height was not ideal for this job. Having signed a contract with him, she also began to cooperate with an advertising and acting agency. Her weekdays were spent on Sunset Boulevard. She was constantly involved in photography and video recording, but this was not at all what she came for. The girl dreamed of more.

Madchen soon made a deal with her parents, saying she had a year to achieve full financial independence. If this does not happen, she will return home to resume her studies and look for herself in another field.

But I didn't have to go back. Albeit by the end of the appointed time, but Amik was invited to act in films. The main role in the low-budget film "Alien in a strange body." Of course, the tape was so-so, the girl later recalled this experience with shame. But it was a start that took place. After that there were several more episodic roles, including work in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Baywatch.

Twin Peaks

Madchen's real fame came after meeting casting director Johanna Rey, who in turn led her to David Lynch. After successfully passing the audition, the girl turned into a waitress Shelley with a difficult fate from the small town of Twin Peaks for two seasons.

Unfortunately, Lynch's series was able to stay on the screensonly two seasons - it did not fit into the usual TV format. And after "Twin Peaks" all its actors, including Medchen, were invited to their projects with some apprehension. The directors and producers were afraid that they might be accused of trying to boost the ratings with the help of the stars of an unusual series.

Madchen's filmography

But it's impossible to say that Amik's career is over. After the creation of Lynch, she nevertheless managed to get first into another series "New York. Central Park", and then, in the mid-nineties, into films such as "Explosive Effect", "The Wound" and "The Courtyard".

After the 2000s, the actress acts in films less, and most of the roles are secondary. Among the exceptions is the series with Christian Slater "My Personal Enemy", where Madchen acts as the wife of the protagonist. As well as the television series "Witches of the East End", where she plays one of the main characters.

For all the time, the actress starred in almost forty series, where she played both small roles and major ones. Full list of series with her participation:

• Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989);
• "Baywatch" (1989);
• "Twin Peaks" (1990-1991);
• "The Fifth Corner" (1992);
• "Fallen Angels" (1995);
• "New York. Central Park" (1995-1996);
• "Fantasy Island" (1998-1999);
• "Dawson's Creek" (1999);
• "Gilmore Girls" (2002-2003);
• "High Queens" (2003);
• "Lucky Card" (2003);
• "Ed" (2003);
• "Ambulance" (2004-2005);
• "Jake Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" (2005);
• "Joey" (2005);
• "Freddie" (2005-2006);
• "Law &Order" (2006);
• "Kidnapped" (2006-2007);
• "Viva Laughlin" (2007);
• "Shark" (2008);
• "Gossip Girl" (2008);
• "Californication" (2008);
• "My personal enemy" (2008);
• "Fight" (2010);
• "C. S. I. Crime Scene New York" (2010);
• "White Collar" (2011);
• "The Clairvoyant" (2012);
• "In a simple form" (2012);
• "Mad Men" (2012);
• "Double" (2012);
• "Deadly Beautiful" (2012);
• "Political Animals" (2012);
• "Beauty and the Beast" (2012);
• "Witches of the East End" (2013-2014);
• Longmeyer (2013-2014);
• "American Horror Story" (2015);
• "Love" (2016);
• "Riverdale" (2017);
• "Twin Peaks" (2017).

In feature films, the actress starred less than in the series, but still the list is still quite impressive. All films with Mädchen Amik:

Year	Genre	Director	Name	Role
1990	comedy	Michael Schultz	"The Big American Sex Scandal"	Miss Dodsworth
1990	horror, thriller	Tobe Hooper	"I'm dangerous tonight"	Amy
1990	comedy, melodrama	Malcolm Mowbray	"Don't tell her it's me"	Mandy
1991	drama, melodrama	Michael Zinberg	"For the very first time"	Rhonda
1991	fantastic	John McNaughton	"An alien in a strange body"	Megan
1992	horror	Mick Garris	"Lunatics"	Tanya Robertson
1992	crime, drama, mystery, thriller	David Lynch	"Twin Peaks. Through the Fire"	Shelly Johnson
1993	detective	William Curran	"Sex, lies, madness"	Lena Mathers
1993	thriller	Nicholas Kazan	"Love, betrayal and theft"	Lauren Harrington
1994	adventure, comedy, crime	George Gallo	"Caught in Paradise"	Sarah Collins
1995	melodrama, comedy	Daphne Kastner	"Leave in English"	Zina
1995	action movie, thriller	Fred W alton	"Courtyard"	Lauren
1996	fantasy, thriller	Paul Wynn	"Explosive effect"	Angelina
1997	action, thriller, drama, crime	Richard Martin	"Rana"	Julie Clayton
1997	drama	Judith Vogelsang	"Evil heart"	Ann "Annie" O'Keefe
1998	thriller	Stuart Cooper	"Hunting Season"	Samantha Clarke
1999	drama, biography	Andy Wolf	"Mr. Rock and Roll. The Story of Alan Freed"	Jackie McCoy
2000	thriller	Sylvain Guy	"List"	Gabrielle Mitchell
2001	thriller	Ken Girotti	"Executioner"	Grace Mitchell
2001	drama, comedy, family	Ellie Kanner	"Face to face"	Jamie
2001	action, thriller, drama	Dominic Form	"Crime scenes"	Carmen
2002	horror, fantasy, thriller	John Lafia	"Rats"	Susan Costello
2002	action, thriller, drama	Terry Cunningham	"Glob althreat"	Dr. Sera Levitt
2005	thriller, drama, detective	Luis Belanger	"Killing Deception"	Gene Brooks
2005	drama	Elizabeth Puccini	"Four Directions Suburbs"	Rachel
2008	drama, crime	Mark Piznarsky	"Verdict"	Christine
2009	comedy	Luke Greenfield	"Law"	Liz
2010	drama	John Evnet	"Confession"	Brushes
2011	drama	Stephen Gagan	"Metro"	Mary McCarthy
2011	horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, thriller	Scott Charles Stewart	"Shepherd"	Shannon Pace

Awards

Despite the rich list, the actress has no career merit in the form of awards. There were two nominations. The first is the Saturn (American Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Film Awards) for Sex, Lies, Madness, and the second is Soap Opera Digest for Twin Peaks.

Private life

Madchen is careful about his family life, but some details are hard to hide. Amik met her husband at the very beginning of the nineties, and after sometime they got married. They have been married for almost thirty years. His name is David Alexis and he is a musician. At the moment, the couple has two children: Mina and Sylvester. Both followed in their father's footsteps and are developing in the music industry. On stage, Mina uses the middle name Tobias as her last name, while Sylvester takes the pseudonym Sly Witz.

Amic has a star friend - Sarah Michelle Gellar. They happened to meet when Madchen was filming with Sarah's husband.

Actress now

2017 was a step for the actress to a new round of career. Then the famous "Twin Peaks" was restarted, where Medchen Amik played the cute waitress Shelly in her youth. Now she also played her, though aged by a quarter of a century, but no less charming. Lynch managed to do the almost impossible: he brought back almost the entire cast that played in the early nineties.

Riverdale

Moreover, Madchen has become a regular character on the teen series Riverdale, where she stars with both young stars such as Cole Sprouse, Lili Reinhart and KJ Apa, as well as with adult actors. For example, Skeet Ulrich, Luke Perry and Mark Consuelos. In addition to this film, Mädchen Amik and Skeet Ulrich previously starred together in C. S. I. Crime Scene NY.

Even a rather busy schedule does not stop the actress, and she always pleases fans with fresh news on social networks. Mädchen Amik most often posts photos on Instagram, where he maintains his page.

Facts

The actress's birthday is December 12, 1970.

Amik is a Sagittarius according to the zodiac sign, and a Dog according to the eastern horoscope.

She is 168 centimeters tall and has always weighed around fifty kilograms.

Madchen's name means "girl" in German.