Amy Carlson

Amy Carlson strikes me as a thinking actor, a Knox College graduate who brought real intelligence to her craft. As Linda Reagan on Blue Bloods she anchored that family drama with warm, steady authority, and her earlier work on Third Watch and the soap Another World shows remarkable staying power. She gravitates toward roles that are grounded and quietly strong, never showy but always essential. What excites me now is her step into directing, that hunger to shape stories rather than just inhabit them. She is the kind of performer you do not always notice praising, yet a production feels incomplete without her. I respect that deeply.

Name (English)

Amy Carlson

Name (Japanese)

エイミー・カールソン

Reading

えいみー・かーるそん

Born

July 7, 1968 (age 58)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

Origin

Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / film director

High school

Glenbard West High School

University

Knox College

• Official sitehttps://www.amycarlson.com
• Xhttps://x.com/TheAmyCarlson
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Carlson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q450322

Tags

• Illinois
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.