Becki Newton | |
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 Newton in 2015 | |
| Born | July 4, 1978 [1] New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (B.A. [2] ) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Matt Newton (brother) Stephanie Chase (maternal aunt) Bruce Chase (maternal grandfather) Sienna Miller (first cousin once removed) |
Becki Newton (born July 4, 1978) is an American actress, known for her roles as Amanda Tanen on Ugly Betty and Quinn Garvey on How I Met Your Mother .
Newton was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of Thomas Newton and Jennifer Newton (née Chase), daughter of composer and arranger Bruce Chase and violinist Fannie (née Paschell) Chase. She is of English, Czech, Norwegian, French, and Scottish descent. Newton is a first cousin once removed of actress Sienna Miller. [3]
After graduation, Newton then moved to New York City and landed several roles in television commercials for such companies as the Olive Garden. [4] Newton also appeared in a PSA video about the dangers of drinking for Human Relations Media, called "Keg Party".
Newton portrayed the character Amanda Tanen in the ABC comedy-drama series Ugly Betty from 2006 to 2010. With co-star Michael Urie, Newton co-hosted the official Ugly Betty podcast. She also starred in ABC.com's web series Mode After Hours opposite Urie. Ugly Betty was cancelled in 2010 after four seasons. [5]
In late 2009, Newton performed at a New York City Center Encores! presentation of the Gershwin musical Girl Crazy , which was directed by Jerry Zaks. She portrayed Molly Gray and performed opposite real-life husband Chris Diamantopoulos. [6]
Newton starred in the television series Love Bites in 2011. The hour-long romantic comedy was created by executive producer Cindy Chupack, who worked on Sex and the City . [7] NBC announced the pick up of the series in May 2010. [8] However, with Newton announcing her pregnancy, co-star Jordana Spiro contractually obligated to stay with her other show, My Boys (which was later cancelled), and Chupack's desire to leave the show, Love Bites was pushed back to midseason. [9] [10] Love Bites was ultimately aired in July 2011 on NBC and was cancelled after its first-season order of episodes was burned off. [11] In November 2011, Newton was cast on CBS's How I Met Your Mother as Quinn Garvey, a love interest for Neil Patrick Harris's character Barney Stinson where she played a stripper. [12] In 2013, Newton starred in the midseason Fox comedy series The Goodwin Games . [13] In 2018 Newton began appearing in a recurring role on the HBO TV series Divorce , playing Jackie Giannopolis, the new girlfriend of Thomas Haden Church's character.
On September 13, 2019, it was announced that Newton will once again team up with Urie on a sitcom project for CBS and Warner Bros. Television called Fun, for which both will co-star and co-executive produce with creator Michael Patrick King and fellow Ugly Betty showrunners Tracy Poust and Jon Kinnally. [14] However, the pilot is not moving forward. [15]
On February 2, 2021, it was announced that Newton has replaced Kiele Sanchez as Lorna Taylor, Mickey Haller's second ex-wife and office manager, in the upcoming Netflix-ordered series The Lincoln Lawyer, with Manuel Garcia-Rulfo replacing Logan Marshall-Green as Mickey Haller. [16]
Newton met her husband, actor Chris Diamantopoulos, in a subway station in New York and they married on May 12, 2005. [4] It was announced on July 1, 2010, that Newton and Diamantopoulos were expecting their first child. [17] She gave birth to a son in early November 2010 [18] and a daughter in early 2014. [19] Newton gave birth to her second daughter in 2020 and her third in 2022. [20]
Her older brother, Matt Newton, is also an actor. [21] He played the recurring role of Marc St. James' boyfriend Troy in the fourth and final season of Ugly Betty. Her mother, Jennifer, is an artist, [22] and her aunt, Stephanie Chase, is a classical violinist. [23]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2004 | P.S. | Rebecca | |
| 2007 | August Rush | Jennifer | |
| 2019 | Otherhood | Andrea | |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2001 | Burly TV | Herself | Host |
| 2003 | Cold Case | Melanie Whitley (1976) | Episode: "Look Again" |
| 2003–2004 | Guiding Light | Fantasy daughter | Unknown episodes |
| 2004 | American Dreams | Mindy | 3 episodes |
| 2004 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Colleen Heaton | Episode: "Weak" |
| 2005 | Charmed | "Glamoured" Piper Halliwell | Episode: "Something Wicca This Way Goes...?" |
| 2006–2010 | Ugly Betty | Amanda Tanen | Main cast; 85 episodes Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series |
| 2007 | Ugly Betty | Ruthie | Episode: "Sofia's Choice" |
| 2007 | American Dad! | Blonde hoe (voice) | Episode: "When a Stan Loves a Woman" |
| 2007 | American Dad! | Mrs. Hannigan (voice) | Episode: "I Can't Stan You" |
| 2007–2008 | Ugly Betty | Young Fey Sommers | 2 episodes |
| 2008–2009 | Mode After Hours | Amanda Tanen | Main cast; 19 episodes (Ugly Betty spin-off) |
| 2011 | Love Bites | Annie Matopoulos | Main cast; 6 episodes |
| 2012–2013 | How I Met Your Mother | Quinn Garvey | 10 episodes |
| 2013 | The Goodwin Games | Chloe Goodwin | Main cast; 7 episodes |
| 2014 | Mickey Mouse | Cruise ship waitress (voice) | Episode: "Flipperboobootosis" |
| 2014 | American Dad! | Margie (voice) | Episode: "Introducing the Naughty Stewardesses" |
| 2015 | Weird Loners | Caryn Goldfarb | Main cast; 6 episodes |
| 2018–2019 | Divorce | Jackie Giannopolis | Recurring role (season 2), main role (season 3) |
| 2018–2019 | Tell Me a Story | Katrina Thorn | Recurring (season 1) |
| 2022-present | The Lincoln Lawyer | Lorna Taylor | Main role |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008–2009 | Mode After Hours | Amanda Tanen | 19 episodes |
| Year | Awards | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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| 2007 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | Ugly Betty | Nominated |
| 2008 | Nominated | |||
| Ewwy Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Nominated | ||
| 2009 | Glamour Awards | Glamour Award for Comedy Actress | Won [24] | |
| Ewwy Awards | Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | Nominated | ||
| 2013 | OFTA Awards | Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | How I Met Your Mother | Nominated |
Elizabeth Larrieu Torres is an American actress, singer, and comedian. Torres is best known for her role as Mahalia Sanchez in the NBC comedy series The John Larroquette Show (1993–1996), for which she received two Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations. She is also known for her role as Patricia "Miss Patty" LaCosta in The WB family comedic drama series Amy Sherman-Palladino's Gilmore Girls (2000–07) starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. In the 1970s, she played Julie Erskine on Phyllis and also had a recurring role as Teresa Betancourt on All in the Family.
Christopher Diamantopoulos is a Canadian actor. He played Russ Hanneman in the HBO series Silicon Valley and starred in the film The Three Stooges, and the TV series Good Girls Revolt. He voiced Mickey Mouse in the eponymous television series, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse and the short film Once Upon a Studio; for the former, he received two Emmy Award nominations.
Christopher David Gorham is an American actor. He is best known for his work on television, particularly for playing Henry Grubstick on the ABC comedy-drama series Ugly Betty, Auggie Anderson on the action-drama series Covert Affairs, Bob Barnard on the dark comedy-drama series Insatiable, Harrison John on The WB’s teen comedy-drama series Popular, Henry Dunn in the limited slasher series Harper's Island, and Trevor Elliott on the legal drama series The Lincoln Lawyer.
Cindy Chupack is a screenwriter and film director who has won three Golden Globes and two Emmys for her work as a writer/executive producer of HBO's Sex and the City and writer/co-executive producer of ABC's Modern Family.
Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta that aired on ABC from September 28, 2006, to April 14, 2010. The series is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea, which has had many other international adaptations. It revolves the character Betty Suarez, who – despite her lack of style – lands a job at a prestigious fashion magazine. It was produced by Silent H, Ventanarosa, and Reveille Productions partnered with ABC Studios, with Salma Hayek, Horta, Ben Silverman, Jose Tamez, and Joel Fields serving as executive producers. The pilot was filmed in New York City; seasons one and two were filmed in Los Angeles and seasons three and four were filmed in New York City.
Love Bites is an American anthology comedy-drama television series originally planned for the 2010–11 television season on the NBC network that eventually aired as a summer replacement series. It premiered in its regular Thursday night time slot at 10:00 pm Eastern/9:00 pm Central, on June 2, 2011. On July 11, 2011, NBC canceled the show and the series finale aired on July 21, 2011.
"Pilot" is the first episode and the series premiere of the American comedy-drama series Ugly Betty. It first aired on September 28, 2006 on the ABC network in the United States. This is also the most watched episode of the season and the series with more than 16 million viewers.
Michael Lorenzo Urie is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Marc St. James on the ABC comedy drama television series Ugly Betty. He can be heard as Bobby Kerns in As the Curtain Rises, an original podcast soap opera from the Broadway Podcast Network.
Amanda Tanen is a fictional character in the American dramedy series Ugly Betty and spin-off web-series Mode After Hours. She is played by Becki Newton. Like Henry Grubstick, Amanda shares a last name with a real-life member of Ugly Betty's production staff — writer Brian Tanen.
"A Tree Grows in Guadalajara" is the 22nd episode of the first season of the American television dramedy Ugly Betty. It was written by Tracy Poust and Jon Kinnally and directed by Lev L. Spiro. The episode was originally broadcast by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States on May 10, 2007.
The first season of the American dramedy television series Ugly Betty began airing on September 28, 2006 and concluded on May 17, 2007.
"A Nice Day for a Posh Wedding" is the seventh episode of the second season of the American television dramedy Ugly Betty and the series's 30th episode overall. It was written by Silvio Horta and Marco Pennette, and directed by James Hayman. The episode was originally broadcast on ABC in the United States on November 8, 2007. Ugly Betty centers on Betty Suarez's job at the fashion magazine MODE, despite not fitting their expectations of beauty and style. In this episode, MODE's creative director Wilhelmina Slater attempts to marry the magazine's publisher Bradford Meade.
David Blue is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Cliff St. Paul on Ugly Betty, Eli Wallace on the Syfy series Stargate Universe, and Rick Twitler on both Nickelodeon's Henry Danger and Danger Force.
The third season of the American comedy-drama television series Ugly Betty was confirmed by ABC on February 11, 2008. The season premiere aired on September 25, 2008, while the season ended with a special double episode on May 21, 2009.
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"Million Dollar Smile" is the 17th episode of the fourth season of the American television comedy series, Ugly Betty, and the 82nd overall episode of the series. It was written by Henry Alonso Myers and Chris Black. The episode was directed by Paul Holahan. It originally aired on the ABC network in the United States on March 24, 2010. Guest stars in this episode include Neal Bledsoe, Halley Feiffer, Ryan McGinnis, Donna Murphy and Kathy Najimy.
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"Hello Goodbye" is the series finale of the television comedy-drama series, Ugly Betty. The episode serves as the 20th and final episode of the fourth season. It was written by series creator and executive producer Silvio Horta, and was directed by Victor Nelli, Jr. It first aired on ABC in the United States on April 14, 2010. Guest stars in this episode include Bryan Batt, Neal Bledsoe, Grant Bowler, Alec Mapa, Ryan McGinnis, Matt Newton and Adam Rodríguez.
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