Amanda Wyss (born November 24, 1960) is an American film and television actress. She began her career in the early 1980s in teen roles including Lisa in the coming-of-age comedy film Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Tina Gray in the slasher film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and Beth in the film Better Off Dead (1985). She had a supporting role as investigative reporter Randi McFarland in the television series Highlander: The Series (1992–1993). She played Woody's ex-girlfriend, Beth, in two episodes of Cheers in the mid-1980s.

Filmography

• 2022Beyond the Resonator — Professor McMichaels
• 2021The Resonator: Miskatonic U — Professor McMichaels
• 2020Hunter's Moon — Bernice Delaney
• All Rise — Caroline Halliwell
• 2019Badland — Alice Hollenbeck
• 2019Rest Stop — Harmony
• 2019Triggered
• 2018Big Legend — Dr. Wheeler
• Station 19 — Laura
• The Rookie — Meredith Russell
• 2017It Happened Again Last Night — Eileen
• 2017The Capture — Terry
• 2017The Hatred — Beth Crossan
• 2017The Sandman — Dr. Amanda Elliott
• 2017The Watcher of Park Ave — Lt. Samantha Warren
• 2016The Id — Meredith Lane
• 2016Thing in the Dark — JC
• 2010Deadly Impact — Julie Mulligan
• 2010The Graves — Darlene
• Dexter — Social Worker
• 2006Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven's Nightmares — Narrator
• 2005Monster-in-Law — Tina Gray (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2004Fallacy
• Cold Case — Sonya Witkowski (2004)
• The Agency — Jennifer Steward
• The Division — Sharon
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Donna Marks, Tina Vincent
• Judging Amy — Denise Wharton
• 1998Marry Me or Die — Nora Dawkins
• 1997Strategic Command — Michelle Harding
• Profiler — Lee Armstrong
• JAG — Helene Dugan, Diane Akers
• The Drew Carey Show — Tina
• University Hospital
• 1994Desert Steel — Jerri
• ER — Mrs. Adams
• Diagnosis: Murder — Maureen
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Alicia
• 1992Bloodfist IV: Die Trying — Shannon
• 1992Gunsmoke: To the Last Man — Lizzie Tewksbury
• Highlander: The Series — Randi McFarland, Randi MacFarland
• 1991Black Magic Woman — Diane Abbott
• Silk Stalkings
• 1991Son of Darkness: To Die For II — Celia
• 1990Checkered Flag — Chris Baird Trehearn
• 1990Shakma — Tracy
• 1989Deadly Innocents — Angela/Andy
• 1989Powwow Highway — Rabbit Layton
• Quantum Leap — Suzanne Elsinger
• 1989The Final Days — Tricia Nixon Cox
• 1988To Die For — Celia Kett
• 1987Independence — Chastity
• My Two Dads — Dana
• The New Adventures of Beans Baxter — Mary Ellen
• 1986Firefighter — Marilyn
• 1986Something in Common — Laura Grant
• 1985Better Off Dead... — Beth Truss
• Otherworld — Nova
• 1985Silverado — Phoebe
• 1984A Nightmare on Elm Street — Tina Gray
• Murder, She Wrote — Laura Maples
• 1984My Mother's Secret Life — Tobi Jensen
• 1984No Earthly Reason
• 1983A Killer in the Family — Dannelda Lyons
• Cagney & Lacey — Bridgit Cagney
• Cheers — Beth Curtis
• 1982Fast Times at Ridgemont High — Lisa
• St. Elsewhere — Pru Dowler
• Teachers Only
• The Powers of Matthew Star
• 1981Force: Five — Cindy Lester
• Jessica Novak
• 1981She Drinks a Little — Cindy Scott
• 1981The Other Victim — Kimi Langford
• 1981This House Possessed — Holly
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century — Laura

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2022Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story — Self
• The Movies That Made Us — Self
• 2013Fantasm — Self
• 2010Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy — Self
• 2006Never Sleep Again: The Making of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ — Self