Amanda Brugel Biography
Amanda Brugel is a Canadian actress. She is well known for the role she played as Michelle Krasnoff in the short-lived Canadian comedy series in 2013 to 2014. She starred as Vanessa in the Canadian film Sex After Kids in 2013, and she won an ACTRA Award for Best Female Performance.
She then debuted in the David Cronenberg satirical drama film Maps to the Stars (2014), the BBC-Space science fiction television series Orphan Black (2015), and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017–present).
Amanda Brugel Age
She was born on March 24, 1978, in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada. She is 41 years old as of 2019.
Amanda Brugel Height|Amanda Brugel Measurements
She is 5 feet 9 inch.
She weighs 64 kilograms.
She has black hair and brown eyes.
Amanda Brugel Family
There is no provided information about her family background. The only known information is that she is a wife to Marcel Lewis. She is a mother of two sons. The sons are Jude Mason Lewis and Phoenix Lewis.
Amanda Brugel Parents
There is no information provided about her parents but her father is an African- American and her mother is English.
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Amanda Brugel Husband|Amanda Brugel Married
She got married to her longtime boyfriend Marcel Lewis. They got married on March 7, 2008. The couple has two children both boys named Jude Mason Lewis and Phoenix Lewis who was born on February 7, 2012, and June 20, 2014, respectively. She keeps posting about her husband and children on her Instagram account now and then.
Amanda Brugel Workin Moms
Workin’ Moms is a Canadian television sitcom which premiered on CBC Television on January 10, 2017. The show stars Catherine Reitman, Jessalyn Wanlim, Dani Kind and Juno Rinaldi as a group of friends dealing with the challenges of being working mothers. The series was renewed for a second season on April 4, 2017. On January 10, 2019, the third season of Workin’ Moms premiered on CBC. She played a role in season two as Sonia.
Amanda Brugel Orphan Black
Orphan Black is a Canadian science fiction thriller television series created by screenwriter Graeme Manson and director John Fawcett, starring Tatiana Maslany as several identical people who are clones. The series focuses on Sarah Manning, a woman who assumes the identity of one of her fellow clones, Elizabeth Childs, after witnessing Childs’ suicide. The series raises issues about the moral and ethical implications of human cloning, and its effect on issues of personal identity. Amanda was cast as Marci Coates, a woman against whom Alison is running in Bailey Downes’s school trustee election in season three.
Amanda Brugel Rita
In the movie, The Handmaid’s Tale, she plays the role of Rita who is a housekeeper.
Amanda Brugel Actress
In 1999, Brugel made her film debut in Vendetta alongside Christopher Walken. In 2000, she had a role in A Diva’s Christmas Carol, a Christmas television film starring Vanessa Williams, Rozonda Thomas, and Kathy Griffin. She went on to appear in films such as Jason X, KAW, Splice, and The Calling.
Brugel has appeared in several television series, including Soul Food, Kevin Hill, Paradise Falls, MVP, Saving Hope, Nikita, and Covert Affairs.
In 2013, she was praised for her role as Vanessa in Sex After Kids, winning an ACTRA Award for Outstanding Female Performance. She starred as Michelle Krasnoff in the television series Seed from 2013 to 2014.
In 2014, she appeared in the David Cronenberg film Maps to the Stars and The Calling alongside Susan Sarandon. In 2015, she portrayed Marci Coates in several episodes of Orphan Black.
More recently, she has starred as a recurring character in the USA Network series Eyewitness (2016). She has also played a recurring character, a housekeeper named Rita, in the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale, based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name.
Brugel has most currently starred as the recurring character Pastor Nina Gomez in the first two seasons of the CBC Television sitcom Kim’s Convenience.
Amanda Brugel The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale is an American dystopian drama web television series created by Bruce Miller, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. It was ordered by the streaming service Hulu as a straight-to-series order of 10 episodes, for which production began in late 2016.
The plot features a dystopian future following a Second American Civil War wherein a totalitarian society subjects fertile women, called “Handmaids”, into child-bearing servitude. Amanda Brugel as Rita (recurring season 1, main season 2–present), a Martha at the Waterford house.
She had a son named Matthew, who died fighting in the civil war when he was 19 years old.
Amanda Brugel Room
She was featured in the 2015 film Room.
Amanda Brugel Filmography| Amanda Brugel Movies
Jason X 2001
Jack & Ella 2002
The Prince and Me 2004
KAW 2007
The Death of Alice Blue 2009
Splice 2009
Sex After Kids 2013
Treading Water 2013
Maps to the Stars 2014
The Calling 2014
Room 2015
Suicide Squad 2016
Amanda Brugel Tv Shows
Soul Food 2001
Leap Years 2001
The 5th Quadrant 2002
10,000 Black Men Named George 2002
Beautiful Girl 2003
This Time Around 2003
Doc 2004
Wild Card 2004
Devil’s Perch 2005
Kevin Hill 2005
G-Spot 2006
This Is Wonderland 2006
What If God Were the Sun? 2007
Paradise Falls 2008
MVP 2008
Da Kink in My Hair 2008
Life Unjarred 2010
InSecurity 2011
The Firm 2012
Saving Hope 2012
Flashpoint 2012
The Ron James Show 2013
Warehouse 13 2013
Covert Affairs 2013
Seed 2013-2014
Orphan Black 2015
Dark Matter 2015
Eyewitness 2016
Amanda Brugel Net Worth
Amanda Brugel has an estimated net worth of $16 million. The main source of her net worth is acting. She also has two properties.
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Amanda Brugel on The Handmaid’s Tale, fighting for good roles and rejecting stereotypes
When Amanda Brugel auditioned for the role of Rita — a member of the subservient class of housekeepers called Marthas on The Handmaid’s Tale — she told the other actors auditioning to go home.
“I was dead serious,” she in a conversation with guest host Ali Hassan on CBC’s q. “‘Walk them to their car. That’s enough.’”
They would have wasted less time if they listened. Brugel got the part, giving the character a backstory and a unique physicality, making it into an iconic and nuanced role.
But first, she had to go through rounds of auditions to beat out an American candidate for the role.
“I just had to keep going back and battling it out and keep mentioning I had a wealth of knowledge about the book — and eventually won it, but not without a fair fight,” she said.
Until she could prove to casting directors there was no better Rita, Brugel had to get them to set aside the fact that “they initially wanted a recognizable name.”
It’s funny, because if you’ve watched a film or television show shot in Canada you’ve probably seen Brugel on your screen.
The actor has had parts on Kim’s Convenience, Orphan Black, Workin’ Moms and the Oscar-nominated film Room.
But Brugel says Canadians don’t always recognize or promote talented artists in the country, which can make it harder for actors who want to build careers in the country they love.
“I don’t think Canadians bingeing Kim’s Convenience on Netflix realize it’s written and directed in Toronto with a Canadian cast and a Canadian crew,” she said. “I don’t think a lot of kids at home gaming realize Assassin’s Creed is developed in Canada.”
She’s trying to change that, as the face of a new campaign by the Canada Media Fund called MADE.
“The biggest difference is, I think people would think there are these luxurious catered dinners and, I don’t know, ‘Prince is there,’ but the largest difference is the amount of time that we have. You get one or two takes, then you have to move on. Whereas … American shows are almost treated as a film … you have the luxury to play.”
She believes that makes it a great training ground for higher budget productions, which might be part of the reason why so many Canadian media companies often serve as part of the production line of larger American productions, working on special effects, sound and other services.
“We’re not as loud. It’s not that we don’t have the substance. They realize a lot of talent is here and that’s why they keep returning,” said Brugel. “Us ourselves as Canadians, we’re a little reluctant to be as loud as they are it’s just the loudest voice is usually the one that’s heard.”
The Handmaid’s Tale returns for its third season in June. You can catch the season premiere on Bravo, Crave TV and Hulu.
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