Amanda Setton is an American actress, known for portraying Brook Lynn Quartermaine in the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital.
Life and career[]
Setton was born in New York City, and grew up in Great Neck, where she was vice president of her high school's theater club. She is Jewish, and majored in drama at Ithaca College, where she graduated in 2007. In her junior year she studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain in an IES program. Setton completed a comprehensive two-year Meisner technique program at The Actor's Workshop of Ithaca under the instruction of Eliza VanCort.
Setton played Penelope Shafai on the teen drama Gossip Girl from 2008 to 2012. She made her debut on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live as Kimberly Andrews on August 14, 2009.
Setton returned to Gossip Girl in 2010. It was announced on June 22, 2011 that Setton would be returning to One Life to Live as Kimberly Andrews in August 2011.
On July 11, 2012, Setton was cast as a series regular on the Fox comedy series The Mindy Project, playing the role of Shauna Dicanio. She was written out that same year.
Setton was cast in the CBS sitcom The Crazy Ones on February 26, 2013.
In 2019, she was cast in the role of Brook Lynn Quartermaine on General Hospital. She was hired by GH Executive Producer Frank Valentini, who was also her boss at One Life to Live. Valentini approached Setton and offered her the role without an audition process. Jamey Giddens of Daytime Confidential had suggested that Setton be cast in the role in 2012, a year after Brook Lynn, then played by Adrianne León, was written off the show. In Soap Opera Digest, Setton talked about her longtime friendship with Valentini. "My angel, Frank Valentini...I love Frank. I respect Frank and I truly appreciate him. I think he has an exquisite eye in this arena. I think he's unrivaled in what he does...He is an incredible person all around, an amazing friend, an even more amazing producer and director, if that's even possible."
Unlike León, Setton is not a singer and has not performed on General Hospital since her debut.
Setton took maternity leave from the role in 2020, last appearing on August 4th 2020. She returned to the role on March 15, 2021.
Trivia[]
- Attended Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY.
- Her father is of Syrian Jewish and Egyptian Jewish descent. Her mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
- She and her co-star, Josh Kelly portrayed siblings Kimberly Andrews and Cutter Wentworth on One Life to Live.