Amanda Plummer (born 23 March 1957; age 67) is an actress who played Vadic in the third season of Star Trek: Picard. She also played a Daystrom Station scientist in the episode "Dominion".
She is the daughter of the late actor Christopher Plummer, who played General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Plummer is best known for her roles in The Fisher King (1991, with Melinda Culea and John de Lancie) and Pulp Fiction (1994, with Phil LaMarr). She co-starred with Michelle Forbes in the notable 1996 The Outer Limits episode "A Stitch in Time" (narrated by Kevin Conway), for which she won an Emmy Award. She won another Emmy Award for her guest role in the 2004 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Weak".
She also appeared in films such as The World According to Garp (1982, with George Ede), Daniel (1983, with John Rubinstein), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990, with James Hudson, Carol Kane, and Branscombe Richmond), Freejack (1992, with Jonathan Banks and Jimmy Ortega), So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993, with Michael G. Hagerty and Rico E. Anderson), Needful Things (1993, with W. Morgan Sheppard), A Simple Wish (1997, with Terri Garr and Clare Coulter), 8½ Women (1999), The Million Dollar Hotel (2000, with Harris Yulin), Ken Park (2002, with Wade Andrew Williams), My Life Without Me (2003), and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013, with Jack Quaid and Lenny Kravitz).
Plummer guested on episodes of television series like Moonlighting (with Terry O'Quinn and Jack Blessing, photographed by Jerry Finnerman), Miami Vice (with Stephen McHattie), Tales from the Crypt, Dark Skies (with Conor O'Farrell and Tim Kelleher), Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica (with James Callis, Kate Vernon, Rekha Sharma, Callum Keith Rennie, and Dean Stockwell, written by David Weddle and Bradley Thompson), and The Blacklist.
In 2020, she had a recurring role in Ratched, alongside Jon Jon Briones.
Star Trek appearances[]
- PIC:
- "Disengage"
- "Seventeen Seconds"
- "No Win Scenario"
- "The Bounty"
- "Dominion" (also as a Daystrom Station scientist)
- "Surrender"