Amanda Setton
Amanda Setton is an actor, born 1985.
Amanda Setton's first two film credits are listed as "Hot Woman" and "Girl Slapping Guy", both in 2008, both in studio comedies shot in New York. That is genuinely how a New York acting career begins, and it is worth putting on the record before the parts start acquiring names.
The name that stuck first was Penelope Shafai, the recurring role she played on Gossip Girl from 2008 to 2012. Penelope is a supporting antagonist in a show full of them, and Setton's contribution was timing: she could deliver a two-line put-down and make it land harder than the scene it interrupted. That comic precision got her three network shows in quick succession, The Mindy Project in 2012, then The Crazy Ones and Golden Boy in 2013. None of them kept her. She was on the first half of the first season of The Mindy Project and then she was not.
Daytime turned out to be the durable answer. She played Kimberly Andrews on One Life to Live from 2009 to 2011 and has been Brook Lynn Quartermaine on General Hospital since, which is a real job with a real audience and a workload no prime-time comedy demands. She made her Off-Broadway debut in Love, Loss, and What I Wore in 2011. The film and prime-time credits here catch only the earliest stretch of all that.
Movies (2)
TV (4)
Where to start with Amanda Setton
Gossip Girl is the only real answer, and you do not need to take the show seriously to appreciate her. Penelope exists to say the thing everyone else is thinking, and Setton plays her with a flatness far funnier than shouting would have been.
After that, The Mindy Project is the pick, specifically its early episodes, where her character gets the sharpest lines in a series still working out its own rhythm. The Crazy Ones is a curiosity, a Robin Williams sitcom with a strange energy to it, and Golden Boy is a competent police drama that ran a single season.
The two 2008 films, What Happens in Vegas and Sex and the City, are on the list for completeness. Her parts in them are the size the character names suggest.