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Amanda Wyss. Amanda Wyss is an American actress. She began her career in the early 1980s in teen-oriented roles such as 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). Additionally, she had a supporting role as ...
Amanda Wyss. Born and raised in Manhattan Beach, California, Amanda Wyss, was discovered playing the titular character (Rhoda Penmark) in a production of "The Bad Seed" at an LA theater. She quickly found work in commercials before landing a guest starring role in television's science fiction hit Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), followed ...
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Release Dates | Official Sites | Company Credits | Filming & Production | Technical Specs. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Amanda Wyss as Lisa.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Sean Penn
- Judge Reinhold
- Phoebe Cates
- Robert Romanus
- Brian Backer
- Amanda Wyss
- Scott Thomson
- Forest Whitaker
Jennifer Jason Leigh played Stacy Hamilton, a 15-year-old freshman with a job at Perry’s Pizza. Leigh went on to star in Backdraft and Short Cuts throughout the 1990s. For her role as wanted murderer Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino’s revisionist western The Hateful Eight, Leigh was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, wh...
Fast Times at Ridgemont High’s lovable stoner, Jeff Spicoli, was played by Sean Penn. After getting his start in this comedic role, Penn went on to become a respected dramatic actor. He won two Best Actor Oscars for his roles in the sobering mystery thriller Mystic River and the political biopic Milk. Penn played mob boss Mickey Cohen in Gangster S...
Judge Reinhold played Stacy’s older brother, Brad Hamilton, a popular senior bouncing from job to job. Brad isn’t a great boyfriend to Lisa, but he makes up for it by being a supportive brother to Stacy. Reinhold is known for his supporting roles in Stripes, Gremlins, and every movie in the Beverly Hills Cop and The Santa Clause franchises. He also...
Linda Barrett, Stacy’s best friend and Perry’s Pizza colleague, who gives her advice about sex and dating, was played by Phoebe Cates. Cates’ role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High made her a cultural icon. Besides her Fast Times role as Linda, Cates is best known for playing Kate Beringer in Gremlins and its self-aware sequel, the now-beloved Gremli...
Mike Damone, the smooth-talker who turns out to be a lot more vulnerable and insecure than he lets on, was played by Robert Romanus in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Romanus went on to play Natalie Green’s boyfriend Snake Robinson on The Facts of Life and had a supporting role in the 1985 comedy Bad Medicine. Throughout the 2010s, Romanus guest-star...
Brian Backer played Mark “Rat” Ratner, Damone’s nerdy best friend who works as an usher at the Ridgemont Mall movie theater and is in love with Stacy. Backer played A. Bartlett Congdon on the soap opera Santa Barbara and scored guest roles on TV shows like Charles in Charge, Gimme a Break!, and Growing Pains. In 1981, he won a Tony Award and a Dram...
Brad’s girlfriend Lisa, who breaks up with him before he can break up with her, was played by Amanda Wyss. Throughout the rest of the 1980s, Wyss played Tina Gray in the seminal supernatural slasher A Nightmare on Elm Street, Beth in the classic dark comedy Better Off Dead, and Woody Boyd’s ex-girlfriend in two episodes of Cheers. In 2016, Wyss app...
Scott Thomson played Brad’s friend Arnold in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. After his appearance in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Thomson played Chad Copeland in Police Academy, a role he later reprised in Police Academy 3: Back in Training and Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol. Throughout the 1990s, Thomson appeared in such hit movies as Clueles...
Charles Jefferson, one of Ridgemont High’s most successful football players, was played by Forest Whitaker. After playing one of his earliest film roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Whitaker went on to become a bigger movie star than most of the other cast members. He has starred in such widely acclaimed films as Good Morning, Vietnam, The Cryi...
- Sean Penn - Jeff Spicoli. Stoner and surfer dude Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) spends most of his school days locked in perpetual battle with his straight-laced history teacher, Mr. Hand (Ray Walston).
- Judge Reinhold - Brad Hamilton. For the popular Brad Hamilton (Judge Reinhold), senior year of high school is kind of a drag. After angering an impossible-to-please customer (you know the type), Brad's fired from his job at All-American Burger, and every new job he gets is worse than the last.
- Jennifer Jason Leigh - Stacy Hamilton. For 15-year-old Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh), life gets more complicated during the search for romance. After losing her virginity to a customer at the pizza parlor where she works, Stacy briefly dates the shy Mark Ratner, but the two break things off after some mixed signals.
- Robert Romanus - Mike Damone. Mike Damone (Robert Romanus) fancies himself something of a casanova and a rebel—scalping concert tickets to make money and regaling his shy friend Mark Ratner with the details of his "five-point plan" for success with the ladies.
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Feb 15, 2023 · Amanda Wyss found her spot in Fast Times at Ridgemont High as Lisa, Brad's high school girlfriend. Wyss returned to the big screen two years later, starring in 1984's A Nightmare on Elm Street .
Box office. $27.1 million (domestic) or $50 million [2] Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Cameron Crowe, based on his 1981 book Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story, and starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge ...
