Bellamy Young

TV Actress

Bellamy Young was born in Asheville, North Carolina, United States on February 19th, 1970 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 54, Bellamy Young biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Amy Maria Young, Bellamy
Date of Birth
February 19, 1970
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Age
54 years old
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Networth
$4 Million
Profession
Film Actor, Film Producer, Stage Actor, Television Actor
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Bellamy Young Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 54 years old, Bellamy Young has this physical status:

Height
170cm
Weight
58kg
Hair Color
Dark Brown (Natural)
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Slim
Measurements
36-26-36" (91-66-91 cm)
Bellamy Young Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Asheville School, Yale University
Bellamy Young Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Pedro Segundo
Children
Not Available
Dating / Affair
Ed Weeks, Pedro Segundo
Parents
Not Available
Other Family
Mr. and Mrs. Arliss Young (Adoptive Parents)
Bellamy Young Life

Bellamy Young (born Amy Maria Young) is an American actress and singer best known for her role in ABC's Scandal's "Mellie" Grant (2012-2017).

Young received the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2014.

Early life

Young was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and was adopted. Since there was another Amy Young registered, she opted for the Screen Actors Guild, and Bellamy was a nodoe to her late father's best friend, Bill, who had been helping raise her after her father died.

She graduated from Asheville School in 1987. She attended Yale University, majoring in Physics but later studying English and Theatre, and graduating in 1991. Young spent a summer at the British American Drama Academy in England.

Personal life

Young has been vegan since 1988, and he was active in a PETA campaign titled "Being Vegan Keeps Me Young." Young, a long-supporter of shelter adoption, appeared in two television commercials for The Humane Society of the United States: 'The Shelter Pet Project' in 2015 and 'Honestly' in 2016.

Young is a registered Democrat. Young, along with several of her Scandal co-stars, appeared at a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in April 2016. Young lived on the road for Clinton from August to November 2016, including Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire. Young appeared in 'Women Film' by The United States of Women in 2016, as part of the Obama administration's legacy, as well as other notable public figures such as Michelle Obama, Meryl Streep, and Oprah Winfrey. Young, who appeared at the 2015 National Christmas Tree Lighting, was revealed in 2016 that he and Chelsea Clinton would be coambassadors of the Trust for the National Mall.

Young is the honorary chair for the domestic violence charity 'Helpmate,' and has helped raise funds for victims of domestic violence victims.

In 2015, Young won Celebrity Jeopardy!

Operation Blankets of Love – a charity that gives blankets to animals in shelters – raised $50,000 as a result. Young started suffering from migraines as a child and is still suffers from them to this day. In 2015, she became a Treximet ambassador for GlaxoSmithKline in order to spread migraine information. Young joined Merck & Co. in November 2016 to help educate people on the benefits of biomarker testing in non-small cell lung cancer, the disease that killed her father.

Young, a scholarship recipient at Yale University, now offers a scholarship each year to a student at her alma mater. Young became an ambassador for the organization CARE in 2019 and travelled to Rwanda to see the work that the organisation is doing there. Young produced a PSA for CARE on International Women's Day 2020, starring Kerry Washington, Shonda Rhimes, and Katie Lowes.

In September 2017, young began dating Portuguese percussionist Pedro Segundo. Young revealed that she and Segundo married during the COVID-19 pandemic in September 2022.

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Bellamy Young Career

Career

Young began her acting career in theatre. She made her Broadway debut as Mary in The Life's original cast in 1997. Young has appeared in Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along (1994), and Randy Newman's Faust (1995–1996). Young made her television debut in 1995 as Dr. Courtney Evans, a recurring role on the NBC daytime soap opera Another World. In 1997 and 1998, she appeared on Law & Order in two different roles. She made her film debut in 1999 with a small role in the crime drama Black and White, and later co-starred in several independent films. She began appearing on a variety of television dramas and comedies in the early 2000s, including The Drew Carey Show, The X Files, Frasier, The West Wing, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Two and a Half Men, Drop Dead Diva, and Castle. Young appeared on television shows from 2000 to 2011.

In 2003, Young was a regular cast member of the USA Network series Peacemakers. After one season of nine episodes, the show was cancelled. She appeared in the Lifetime legal drama series For the People as Deputy Dist. Atty. Agnes Hunt appeared on NBC's Scrubs as Dr. Grace Miller in 2004, and on ABC's Dirty Sexy Money (2005–2009), as Ellen Darling, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Darling family. Beth Clemmons was also a regular participant in Criminal Minds from 2011 to 2013.

Young has appeared in many films, including We Were Soldiers (2002) and Mission: Impossible III (2006), Trust Me (2006), This Is Not a Test (2007), and Joint Body (2004).

Shonda Rhimes played Young in the recurring role of First Lady, then Republican presidential nominee Melody "Mellie" Grant on ABC's political thriller television series Scandal opposite Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn in 2011. Young appeared in Shonda Rhimes' Anatomy and Private Practice before Scandal. As of season two, she appeared in every episode of Scandal's first season and was promoted to a series regular. Younger said that her role was originally planned as a three-epoch story arc. Throughout her time on the program, Young has received critical acclaim for her appearance as Melody Grant. In 2014, the Daily Beast named her as the show's "Breakout Star." Many commentators praised Young's performance in her character's centered episode "Everything's Coming Up Mellie" of the third season. "Bellamy Young has been an amazing scene stealer for two-and-a-half seasons, and this time she finally got her chance to shine," Cicely K. Dyson's review for The Wall Street Journal states. "In Mellie, the show has its most fleshed-out personality, and in Young, the show's most compelling performer," Robert Rorke, a writer for The New York Post. For her role in season three, she was named as the Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series by the Critics' Choice Television Award.

Young's first album, Far Away So Close, was released on iTunes on May 15, 2015. She appeared in the crime drama film The Night Stalker, directed by Megan Griffiths about serial murderer Richard Ramirez in 2016. She appeared in Bernard and Huey, the independent comedy film starring Jim Rash and David Koechner, over the next year. She co-starred in Disney's live action version of A Wrinkle in Time in 2018, alongside Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, and Mindy Kaling.

Young revealed in March 2019 that she would co-star in the Fox drama pilot Prosperity Son opposite Michael Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Tom Payne. The show was green-lit for a series order in May, and by October, it had been ordered for a complete 22-episode season pass. Prosecutors Son was the first full season order of fall 2019 and was the most popular new show on any network.

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Bellamy Young, 53, talks the 'shame' she felt regarding her late father's struggle with alcoholism that led to cirrhosis: 'We just sort of kept it in a box'

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 4, 2023
Bellamy Young is dealing with the loss of her late father's cirrhosis battle. The Scandal actress opened up to PEOPLE about how her family simply didn't know about' how her father's struggle with alcoholism, which culminated in the cirrhosis diagnosis. 'There was always a lot of social drinking, but I knew my dad did it at home by himself,' the 53-year-old actress admitted, adding that her father was a 'drinker.' She continued that, at the time, it was simply not socially acceptable to discuss topics such as alcoholism. There was no discussion about alcoholism or anything like that.' We just kind of kept it in a box and didn't bother to talk about it,' she explained.

In a Broadway performance, Shonda Rhimes and other Scandal alums reunite to help Scott Foley

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 31, 2023
This week, a few Scandal alums banded together to help one of their own. Shonda Rhimes, a 53-year-old female series maker, posted a series of pictures on Thursday revealing that she collaborated with Bellamy Young, 53, Katie Lowes, 40, and Joshua Malina, 57, who revealed her on Instagram. The quartet arrived for dinner and to see fellow Scandal actor Scott Foley, 50, perform in The Thanksgiving Play on Broadway. 'Got together with some of my Shondaland fam to see Scott Foley in The Thanksgiving Play on Broadway!' The sequence of photographs was captioned by Rhimes. 'Scott's performance is fantastic.' Marika Dominczyk, 42, was also a member of Foley's wife Marika Dominczyk, 42, was also with the company.

Eric McCormack appears in The Other Black Girl's upcoming Hulu version

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 3, 2022
According to Deadline, Eric McCormack has joined the cast of The Other Black Girl. Will & Grace actress 59 was announced on Thursday, when it was also announced that both he and Bellamy Young had signed on as series regulars. The forthcoming series is currently on Hulu's subscription service.
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