Amanda Schull

Schull was born on August 26, 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of Susan Schull, the current president of Ballet Hawaii, and is one of three children. She attended Punahou School, and trained at Hawaii State Ballet under the instruction of John Landovsky. Schull was offered a scholarship to Indiana University Bloomington for ballet, and attended at age 17. While at Indiana University, she joined Delta Delta Delta. During her sophomore year (as a ballet and journalism major), she attended the San Francisco Ballet School Summer Intensive. She continued her studies for an additional year on scholarship. After Schull's year-long scholarship ended in 1999, she continued as an apprentice. After filming Center Stage, she subsequently joined SFB as a full-time member of its corps de ballet. ==Career==

Schull was cast in the starring role of Jody Sawyer in the 2000 film Center Stage while still an apprentice with the San Francisco Ballet. In ''Mao's Last Dancer'', released in North America in 2010, Schull has a major role as Elizabeth "Liz" Mackey, the girlfriend (and later, first wife) of Li Cunxin. In 2009, Schull had a guest star role on the Fox TV show, Lie to Me (season 1, episode 4). The same year, she was seen in the Lifetime Movie Sorority Wars starring Lucy Hale and Courtney Thorne-Smith. She also guest starred on The CW's One Tree Hill as Sara, the spirit and memory of the deceased wife of Clay (played by Robert Buckley), and also as Clay's wannabe lover who bears a striking resemblance to Sara—Katie Ryan. In November 2013, Schull was cast as Cassandra Railly on the television series 12 Monkeys, based on the 1995 film of the same name. The show premiered January 16, 2015. In September 2024, she was cast in a recurring role on the upcoming superhero series Spider-Noir. ==Personal life==

Schull met her husband, George Wilson, while filming ''Mao's Last Dancer'' in Australia. ==Filmography==