Amy Brenneman

Amy Brenneman played Violet Turner in Private Practice. She is a psychiatrist.

Biography
Amy's mother, a superior court judge, was one of the first women to graduate from Harvard. Her father is an environmental lawyer. Amy is also a graduate of Harvard, where she majored in comparative religion. She spent one semester studying sacred dances in Nepal. While in college, she formed the Cornerstone Theater Company, a touring production company that takes classics to small towns and encourages locals to participate in them. After touring for five years, she moved to New York, where she became a teacher in Brooklyn. She landed her first TV role in 1992.

Filmography

 * Downloading Nancy (2008)
 * The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
 * 88 Minutes (2007)
 * Nine Lives (2005)
 * Off the Map (2003)

Television

 * Judging Amy (1999-2005)
 * Frasier (1998-1999)
 * Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1997)
 * NYPD Blue (1993-1994)
 * Murder, She Wrote (1992)