Andrea F. Friedman

Actress

June 1, 1970 (53 years)

† December 3, 2023

Los Angeles, California, United States

Biography

Andrea Fay Friedman, built a breakthrough 35-year acting career with Down syndrome. She portrayed Amanda, the girlfriend (and later wife) of Charles "Corky" Thacher on the TV show Life Goes On. In 1993, she appeared in an episode of Baywatch, 1997 film Smudge as Cindy, a girl in a group home for people with disabilities who attempts to hide her puppy, Smudge, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Family Guy (1999) & Walker Texas Ranger

Filmography

8.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Katie Tolliver

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

7.8

ER

Mindy (as Andrea Fay Friedman)

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

7.2

Chicago Hope

Georgia Sardos

Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

6.0

Baywatch

Sammy

Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.

7.2

Touched by an Angel

Jeannie

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

7.1

The Division

Irene Basso

The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series focused on a team of women police officers in the San Francisco Police Department. The series premiered on Lifetime on January 7, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2004 after 88 episodes.

6.4

7th Heaven

Molly Connelly

Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven children, not to mention the friends, sweethearts and spouses that continually come and go in the Camden household.

6.6

Life Goes On

Amanda Swanson

Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, who is known as Corky. Life Goes On was the first television series to have a major character with Down syndrome.

7.4

Saving Grace

Nell Ada

Grace Hanadarko is a tormented, fast-living Oklahoma City police detective who, despite having an excellent career in solving crimes, takes self-destruction to new heights. After seeing tremendous tragedy, both professionally and personally, Grace reaches a turning point one night and meets a rough-hewn angel with a similar past who wants to help lead her back to the right path.

6.0

Carol of the Bells

Carol Harris

A young man with a troubled past seeks out his biological mother. His world is turned upside down upon discovering that she is developmentally disabled. Unable to work through this new discovery on his own, the man's wife takes matters into her own hands forcing her husband to face the truth and heal the past.

N/A

Smudge

Cindy

This short documentary follows three Indigenous women as they practice ancestral forms of worship: drumming, singing, and using sweetgrass. These ancient spiritual traditions may at first seem at odds with urban life, but to Indigenous people in Canada who are used to praying in natural settings, the whole world is sacred space.

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