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What can you say about the original "Power Rangers"? The most annoying children's show of it's time, but also the most popular; Power Rangers launched a very promising actress into the public. Well, well, the original Power Rangers. What can you say about them? The most annoying children's show of it's time, but also the most popular; Power Rangers launched a very promising actress into the public. Born and raised in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Amy Jo Johnson, the original Pink Ranger, has gone onto many different projects and has even released her own album "The Trans-American Experience" which she sells independently from her website (Official website). Amy Jo began gymnastics at age 7, and after years of training, began competing professionally in the United States and even Europe. At age 19, Amy left home for New York with dreams of competing in the Olympic Games. After being rejected Amy Jo felt she had wasted ten years but decided to stay in New York enrolling herself in the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the American Musical and Acting Academy. After a year and a half Amy Jo packed up her small car and drove to LA in hopes of making a living there. Her big break came when the role of "Kimberly" was holding auditions. It turns out Amy's extensive gymnastics training is what won her the part and launched her television career. Before long Power Rangers was the most popular children's television show on the Fox Network and Amy Jo traveled with the rest of the cast to Australia to film the movie. After staying with the show for 3 seasons, Amy Jo left and starred in "Susie Q" alongside Shelley Long and Justin Whalin. Before long she starred in a second Power Ranger movie, followed by Killing Mr. Griffin alongside Michelle Williams of Dawson's Creek fame, and then Perfect Body which focused on a gymnast dealing with anorexia. Again landing a role in another hit series, Amy Jo co-starred alongside Keri Russell as Julie Emrick in "Felicity" from 1998-2000 and returned for the last two episodes. During her stint on "Felicity", Amy Jo's mother was diagnosed with cancer at age 53. Amy made numerous trips home to Cape Cod from the Felicity set to stay with her mother who slowly deteriorated. After planning her own funeral and saying goodbye to those she loved, Amy Jo's mother called her family in one by one to return all the gifts they had ever given her throughout her life. It was not long after that Amy Jo's mother passed away. Years later, tragedy struck again when former co-star and good friend Thuy Trang was killed in a car accident to which Amy attended the funeral. Since Felicity, Amy Jo has starred in Independent flicks such as "Interstate 60", a comedy road trip, and "Infested", a horror movie about bugs that turn a group of friends into zombies leaving only Amy Jo to fight for her life. Currently Amy Jo is working on her second album which will be released in the near future as well as landing a role in a television movie "Hard Ground". |
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