Bianca Amato lives in New York City. She was born and raised in South Africa, where she trained at the university of Cape Town’s Drama school, graduating with distinction. She was awarded the Cum Laude prize for Best Student of Dramatic Art. She then went on to work extensively in theater (landing two national awards – the Vita and the Fleur Du Cap - for her performances in Greek and Under Milkwood) as well as television in South Africa, culminating in playing the lead in South Africa’s premiere television series Isidingo –The Need for three years, for which she was nominated Best Actress in the South African equivalent of The Golden Globes. Her popularity in the series, and her performances in other high profile projects, including playing Katherine in the South African premiere of Proof, led to Bianca being awarded a green card as an Alien of Extraordinary Ability.
Bianca moved to New York in 2002. She has since played a number of exciting roles at the Guthrie Theater, including Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice, Rosalind in As You Like It, Marlene in Topgirls, and Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (Star Tribune award for best performance of 2004). She has played opposite Bill Irwin at the Signature Theater ( Mr.Fox: A Rumination) and Kevin Kline at the Public Theater ( Goneril, King Lear workshop). She played Gwendolen in The Importance Of Being Earnest at BAM, directed by Sir Peter Hall and starring Lynn Redgrave, as well as Emma Herwegh in The 2007 Tony award-winning Tom Stoppard trilogy The Coast of Utopia, alongside Ethan Hawke, Billy Crudup, Martha Plimpton and Jennifer Ehle. She played opposite Michael Christopher in Trumpery at the Atlantic theater, and her performance was cited by John Simon on Broadway.Com as one of the Top Five Performances in New York City in 2007. Recent performances include Lady Croom in Arcadia, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Kate in The Taming of The Shrew, with an Induction by Neil Labute, for The Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Television credits while in New York include a guest appearance on Sex And The City and The Good Wife.
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