Amy Yasbeck Biography
Amy Yasbeck (born on September 12, 1963, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an
American film and television actress.
Biography
As a child, Yasbeck was featured on the package art for the Betty Crocker
Easy-Bake Oven. Years later, in 2000, she was presented with a new Easy-Bake
Oven on the show I've Got a Secret for which she was a regular panel member.
Amy Yasbeck spent her elementary, middle and high school years at two different
Catholic schools: Summit Country Day School and Ursuline Academy. She is
noted for her long red hair and is of Irish and Lebanese heritage. After
losing both of her parents, her father from a heart attack and her mother
from emphysema, Yasbeck moved to New York.
Amy Yasbeck has had starring roles in the sitcoms Wings, Alright Already,
and Life on a Stick and in movies such as The Mask, Pretty Woman, and Robin
Hood: Men in Tights.
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Yasbeck is the widow of actor John Ritter, whom she had worked with in
several projects. She first met him at director Dennis Dugan's house during
a read-through of their 1990 movie Problem Child. According to Yasbeck,
Ritter forced her to eat a bagel and cream cheese because he thought she was
too thin. He also thought she was too young to play his wife in the movie
(Ritter was almost 15 years Yasbeck's senior).
Amy Yasbeck and Ritter also starred together in the second Problem Child and
guest-starred together in an episode of The Cosby Show that aired in 1991.
The couple married in 1999 and had a daughter, Stella, in 1998.
On September 11, 2003, Ritter died after collapsing on the set of his
sitcom, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. The cause of death
was an aortic dissection stemming from a previously undiagnosed congenital
heart defect. The date of his death was their daughter's fifth birthday, the
day before Yasbeck's fortieth birthday, and six days before their wedding
anniversary. Yasbeck eventually filed a lawsuit against the hospital where
Ritter died. She and her stepchildren, from Ritter's previous marriage to
Nancy Morgan, claimed that the doctors at St. Joseph's Medical Center in
Burbank, California misdiagnosed the heart condition that cost Ritter his
life. The suit was settled out of court in March 2006.
Film List
- Life on a Stick (2005) (TV series)
- House Blend (2002) (TV series)
- Dead Husbands (1998) (TV)
- The Odd Couple II (1998)
- Denial (1998)
- Alright Already (1997) (TV series)
- Sweet Dreams (1996) (TV)
- Bloodhounds II (1996) (TV)
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
- Home for the Holidays (1995)
- Wings (1990) (TV series) (1994-1997)
- The Mask (1994)
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
- The Nutt House (1992)
- Problem Child 2 (1991)
- Dillinger (1991) (TV)
- Problem Child (1990)
- Poochinski (1990) (TV)
- Pretty Woman (1990)
- Generations (1989) (TV series)
- Little White Lies (1989) (TV)
- Trenchcoat in Paradise (1989) (TV)
- Splash, Too (1988) (TV)
- China Beach (1988) (TV) (uncredited)
- House II: The Second Story (1987)
- Days of Our Lives (1965) (TV series) (1986-1987)
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