Amy oneill biography
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Amy O'Neill
Education
MFA, Painting & Drawing, UW-Milwaukee
Biography
The work of Amy O’Neill investigates the intersections and balances between community and isolation, and the collaborative effort to build and maintain shared commonalities. Her paintings explore the invisible structures that support, improve, or divide specific communities. Her work has been included in juried and invitational exhibitions in New York, Boston, St. Louis, Nashville, South böj, IN, and Los Angeles. Locally, her work has been exhibited by the Portrait kultur Gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Charles Allis Art Museum.
Amy O’Neill received her BFA in Visual Art in 1998 and her MFA in Painting in 2004 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is currently an instructor at UWM in Painting + Drawing and First Year Programs. Previously, O’Neill taught at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and Fisher College in Boston.
Recent Work
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American performer Amy O'Neill was born in Pacific Palisades on July 8, 1971. The daughter of an art school director and a construction company owner, O'Neill is the third of five children. Accompanied by her older siblings, she began auditioning for roles at the age of ten, first appearing at the age of 13 in an episode of Mama's Family (1983) in which she played the younger version of Betty White's character.
As a young teenager, O'Neill continued to land guest spots on television shows such as Matt Houston (1982), Night Court (1984), Highway to Heaven (1984), The Twilight Zone (1985), and Family Ties (1982), before winning a regular role on the 1986 season of the long-running soap opera The Young and the Restless (1973). She made her feature film debut three years later in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989). In the movie, O'Neill's character Amy is shrunk by her scientist father (Rick Moranis). She was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her per
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Amy O'Neill
American actress
Amy O'Neill | |
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O'Neill at Concord Mouse-Con in 2023 | |
| Born | 1971 Pacific Palisades, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, circus-style performer |
| Years active | Acting: 1984–1994, 2016, 2019 |
Amy O'Neill is an American actress. She started as a child actress in 1984, appearing in several sitcoms before a 30-episode run as pregnant teen Molly Stark on The Young and the Restless in 1986. She may be best known for her role as high-schooler Amy Szalinski in the 1989 Disney film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award.[citation needed] She retired from acting in the 1990s, joined a circus-style entertainment troupe, appeared in documentaries about her childhood roles, and returned to acting with two short films and a television episode in the late 2010s.
Early life
[edit]O'Neill was born in Pacific Palisades, California, the daughter of Virginia, an art school dire