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ABOUT ME. Acclaimed actress and singer Bellamy Young is best known for her award-winning role as ‘President Mellie Grant’ on the ABC/Shonda Rhimes series SCANDAL. Young’s performance as the politically ambitious First Lady who becomes President earned her much critical praise including: a Best Supporting Actress statue from the Critics ...
Sep 17, 2015 · Bellamy Young may have found success in Hollywood on Scandal, but her life almost took a very different path. After a childhood spent in Asheville, North Carolina, with her adoptive parents ...
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Apr 18, 2020 · Bellamy discovered that Richard Light sponsored her four years of college and wrote to him in gratitude when she graduated. This guy also supports a sweet fellowship for the intensive study of East Asian languages in China, Korea, and Japan for summer studies and year-long immersions. Bellamy sang in Mixed Company, a Yale a cappella group ...
- She Was Adopted
- She Started Her Career on Stage
- She Made Her TV Debut in Another World
- She Was Named Breakout Star of 2014
- She’S A Vegan
- She A Chronic Migraine Sufferer
- She’S Committed to Charity
- She’S A Registered Democrat
- She’S Helping Educate People About Lung Cancer
- She’S Released An Album
Young was born Amy Maria Young in Asheville, North Carolina. She was given up for adoption after birth, spending 6 weeks in foster care before finding a permanent home with her adoptive parents. Although she never knew her birth parents, they had an impact nonetheless. “We only had two lines on my dad and a paragraph on my mom,” the actress told Pe...
After graduating from Yale University, Young spent a summer at the British American Drama Academy before beginning her career in earnest. Her first steps were on stage, and by the mid-1990s, she had several on- and off-Broadway productions under her belt, including the original production of The Life, Stephen Sondheim’s musical Merrily We Roll Alon...
After deciding to widen her career to include TV and film, Young made her small screen debut in 1995 with the recurring role of Dr. Courtney Evans on the daytime soap, Another World. For the next few years, she had numerous guest starring roles on shows such as Law & Order, The Drew Carey Show, Nash Bridges, The X-Files, The District, ER, and Frasi...
In 2014, two years after starting her 6-year tenure on Scandal, The Daily Beast named Young the show’s “Breakout Star”. It wasn’t only the Beast she impressed: as the First Lady Melody “Mellie” Grant, Young drew rave reviews all round, with Robert Rorke of The New York Post writing“In Mellie, the show has its most fleshed-out character and in Young...
We might all be jumping on the vegan bandwagon these days, but Young’s been living the cruelty-free life since 1988. Her animal-rights advocacy doesn’t end there: as well as saying “No” to meat, Young’s said a decided “Yes” to PETA, even participating in their 2016 campaign “Being Vegan Keeps Me Young.”
Young began experiencing migraines when she was a teenager, and still suffers from the condition to this day. In 2015, she partnered up with GlaxoSmithKline for Treximet to spread the word on the condition and has spoken openly in interviews about how debilitating it can be. “You lose days,” she shared with Fox. “Until you know how to deal with [mi...
Young’s charitable works don’t end with PETA. She’s long been involved in the domestic violence nonprofit organization ‘Helpmate’, and thanks to her fundraising endeavors, she currently holds the title of their honorary chair. She’s also willing to put her wits to the test for good causes, as we saw in 2015 when she appeared on Celebrity Jeopardy! ...
While some entertainers prefer to keep the political affiliations private, Young has no hesitation in pinning her colors to the mast. In 2016, she showed where her loyalties lie when she (along with several other Scandal co-stars) headlined at a fundraiser for the then presidential hopeful, Hilary Clinton. Her relationship with the Clinton’s didn’t...
Given that Young’s adoptive father died of lung cancer, it’s little wonder the subject is so close to her heart. In 2016, Young began her mission to educate people on the importance of early diagnosis and biomarker testing when she teamed up with the pharmaceutical company, Merck & Co. “One of the most important parts of the lung cancer journey is ...
In 2015, Bellamy made her first foray into music, releasing a 10-track album covering songs from everyone from Pink and Ryan Adams to Fleetwood Mac. “We picked songs that are a little sad, and a little down, and a little bit about death,” Bellamy explained to CVLux, “I am so proud of this album” “It’s almost more than I can take in,” she added, “it...
Website. bellamyyoung .com. Bellamy Young (born Amy Maria Young; February 19, 1970) [1] is an American actress, producer and singer, best known for her role as Melody "Mellie" Grant in the ABC drama series Scandal (2012–2018). For her performance, she won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2014.
YearTitleRoleNotes2023Vera PariniMain role2022Olivia WaltonTelevision film2022Margaret HoneycroftMain role2021Christine CollinsEpisode: "Hungry Christine/Mel Loves ...Oct 24, 2013 · Bellamy Young discusses playing Mellie Grant on 'Scandal.'. Last week the plot of "Scandal" may have centered around a bomb scare, but it was a singular scene of a drunk Mellie Grant "celebrating ...
Sep 16, 2015 · After graduating from Yale, Young – who grew up with the first name Amy – spent a few years doing theater in New York before making the move to Los Angeles in 2000 to pursue TV and film work.
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