Amy Aquino (born March 20, 1957) is an American television, film, and stage actress. The graduate of Harvard and Yale universities has appeared in television series such as Brooklyn Bridge, ER, and Being Human, and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role in Picket Fences. She was co-Secretary/Treasurer of the SAG-AFTRA until August 2015 and currently stars in Amazon Studios' television series Bosch as Lt. Grace Billets. Aquino was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, to Adele Frances (née Mesiti) and Salvatore Aquino. She first acted in junior high school productions. At Harvard University she was pre-med, majoring in biology. In her final year, she realised she was spending more time acting than studying and so left to travel to New York to take acting classes, while working at a law firm. She stayed there for three years without landing any acting jobs, before travelling on a recommendation to Minneapolis, where she gained her first roles. In 1986, after two years of rejections, she enrolled at Yale University School of Drama, where she studied three years.

Filmography

• Spider-Noir — Dr. Faber
• 2025Beware the Wolves
• 2025Rhythm Is a Dancer — Susan
• 2025The Music Store — Julie Valli
• 2024Juror #2 — Judge Thelma Hollub
• 2024Puppy Love — Emily's Mom
• The Irrational — CJ Wright
• 2022The Grotto — Arnel Platte
• 2021Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special — Dr. Christina Raynor (archive footage)
• The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — Dr. Christina Raynor
• 2018Beautiful Boy — Annie Goldblum
• 2017Sensum — Dr. Rita Montal
• The Good Fight — Stella Corben
• 2016Hacked
• Bosch — Grace Billets
• Grace and Frankie — Dana
• 2015The Lazarus Effect — President Dalley
• 2014In Security — Lena's Mom
• The Finder — Cristina Farrel
• Being Human — Donna Gilchrist
• Harry's Law — Marylin Coulis
• Suits — Judge
• 2010In My Sleep — Detective Curwen
• Castle — Janine Marks
• Glee — Funny Girl Producer
• 2009Prison Break: The Final Break — Warden Alice Simms
• The Mentalist — Judge Patricia Davis
• Head Case — Lorraine Finkelstein
• Private Practice — Claire
• Big Love — Leslie Usher
• Brothers and Sisters — Dr. Joan Avadon
• Heist — Captain
• Shark — Judge Grant
• Twenty Good Years — Lois
• 2005A Lot Like Love — Diane Martin
• Ghost Whisperer — Georgina
• Grey's Anatomy — Marianne Grandy
• The Closer — Laura Mayhan
• Weeds — School Psychologist
• Boston Legal — Judge Phyllis Tamber
• CSI: NY — Diane Lipstone
• Desperate Housewives — Erika Gold
• 2004In Good Company — Alicia
• 2003National Security — Councilwoman
• 2003The Singing Detective — Nurse Nozhki
• Monk — Mrs. Bowen, Rhonda
• 2002Undisputed — Darlene Early
• 2002White Oleander — Miss Martinez
• Alias — Virginia Kerr
• Crossing Jordan — Lois Carver
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — A.D.A. Valerie Nichols
• Curb Your Enthusiasm — Susan Braudy
• Strong Medicine — Willa James
• Action — Connie Hunt
• Freaks and Geeks — Mrs. Schweiber
• The West Wing — Becky Reeseman
• Felicity — Dr. Toni Pavone
• Ally McBeal — Dr. Harper
• The Practice — Judge Louise Moreno
• 7th Heaven — Ms. Williams
• Everybody Loves Raymond — Peggy
• 1995Boys on the Side — Anna
• 1995My Brother's Keeper — Terry
• 1994Betrayal of Trust — Jeannie Wilcox
• ER — Janet Coburn
• Madman of the People — Sasha Danziger
• 1994Once in a Lifetime — Barbera
• 1993A Place to Be Loved — Debby Hunter
• 1993Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
• 1992Alan & Naomi — Ruth Silverman
• Picket Fences — Dr. Joanna 'Joey' Diamond
• The Larry Sanders Show — Rabbi Marcy Klein
• Brooklyn Bridge — Phyllis Berger Silver
• 1991The Last to Go — Ginny
• 1990Descending Angel — Catherine
• Law & Order — Defense Attorney Erica Stohlmeyer
• 1988Working Girl — Alice Baxter
• 1987Moonstruck — Bonnie
• 1982The Slumber Party Massacre — Pam (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (1)

• Untitled SAG-AFTRA Documentary — Self