Amanda Payton is an American actor. She is best known for playing Nina Rudolph on the NBC sitcom '' Trial & Error'', Dr. Alison Parfit on the Sky Comedy/Peacock police comedy-drama ''

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'', and Holly in the CBS sitcom ''

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''.

Early life

Payton was born in

Santa Monica, California Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...

. She was educated at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, and later attended

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, graduating with honors earning a

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Career

In 2008, Payton began her on-screen television career in an episode of the CBS crime drama '' Numbers''. She has also starred in episodes of other television series including, '' Southland'', '' CSI: Cyber'', '' Game Shakers'', ''

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'', '' Workaholics'', '' Animal Kingdom'', ''

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'', '' Modern Family'', '' Grey's Anatomy'', and '' Young Sheldon''. Payton had small roles in the feature films ''

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'' and ''

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'', both released in 2010. In 2018, Payton joined the second season of the NBC sitcom '' Trial & Error'', playing Nina Rudolph, a podcast host who moves to the series' fictional town of East Peck,

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from

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to follow the trial of Lavinia Peck Foster (played by Kristin Chenoweth), and ends up in a love triangle with the characters, Josh and Carol. In 2020, Payton joined the Sky Comedy British police procedural comedy-drama ''

'', playing American scientist Dr. Alison Parfit, who leads an

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project to revive a killed Detective Inspector using AI. The third season of the series premiered on August 4, 2022. In 2021, Payton had a recurring role in the sitcom ''

'' playing Holly, the girlfriend of former Marine combat veteran, Riley Dugan. Also in 2021, Payton played the protagonist, Sawyer, in the

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Christmas film ''A Fiancé for Christmas'', which premiered on December 9, 2021. From 2021 to 2022, Payton had a two-episode role on the NBC police action drama ''

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'', as Celeste Nichols, Officer Kevin Atwater girlfriend. In January 2022, it was announced that Payton would star in the upcoming NBC drama ''Unbroken'' as Ella, a winemaker at a Californian ranch who tries to keep her family together since her mother's passing.

Filmography

Television

Film

References

External links

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