Amy Gibson

{{Short description|American actress}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2024}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Amy Gibson

| image = Amy Gibson on the Empower Africa Initiative.jpg

| caption = Gibson interviewed by Princess Halliday in 2016

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|11|25|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Westchester County, New York, U.S.

| occupation = Actress, businesswoman

| relatives = Jody Gibson (sister)
Georgia Gibbs (aunt)

}}

Amy Gibson (born November 25, 1960) is an American daytime television Emmy-nominated actress and businesswoman.

Career

Gibson's credits include Love of Life (Lynn Henderson), Young and the Restless (Alana Anthony Jackson), and General Hospital (Colette Francoise) in the 1980s.

Personal life

Gibson is the younger sister of Jody Gibson and the niece of singer Georgia Gibbs, a recording artist with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her mother Tobe Gibson is the talent agent who discovered Tom Cruise.{{Cite web |title=Amy Gibson |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316837/ |access-date=2020-07-02 |website=IMDb |language=en}}

Secretly bald for over 20 years due to the medical condition alopecia areata, Gibson built a post-acting career in wig manufacturing and consulting services to those in need of guidance and support who are dealing with hair loss.{{cite web |url=http://www.soapdom.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=20106 |title=Love of Life, General Hospital and Young and the Restless' Amy Gibson |publisher=Soapdom.com |date=2007-02-21 |accessdate=2012-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312013828/http://www.soapdom.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=20106 |archive-date=2012-03-12 |url-status=dead }}Los Angeles Magazine Oct. 1999 article "Whatever Happened to Babydol?"{{Cite web |date=2011-04-05 |title=Amy's Story |url=http://www.createdhair.com/AboutAmy.html |access-date=2022-06-09 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110405015703/http://www.createdhair.com/AboutAmy.html |archive-date=5 April 2011 |url-status=dead}}

Filmography

= Film =

class="wikitable sortable"

|+

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1980

|Airplane!

|Soldier's Girl

|

1981

|King of the Mountain

|Roger's Girl

|

2013

|A Split Personality

|Dancer

|

2013

|Baby Let Your Hair Hang Down

|Amy

|Documentary

= Television =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1979

|Friendships, Secrets and Lies

|Marie

|Television film

1980

|One Day at a Time

|Claudia Faraday

|Episode: "Girl with a Past"

1980

|The Love Boat

|Harriet Bryce

|1 episode

1980

|The Facts of Life

|Margo

|Episode: "The New Girl: Part 2"

1981

|Vegas

|Angie Wilson

|Episode: "Backlash"

1982

|Happy Days

|Alice

|Episode: "Great Expectations"

1988

|General Hospital

|Collette Francois

|Episode dated August 9, 1988

2000

|The Street

|Cheryl

|Episode: "Closet Cases"

References