2014/04/01 – HeartShare Spring Gala
Amy Carlson, Linda Dano and Abigail Hawk helped celebrate HeartShare’s Centennial Anniversary!
©Steven Bergmann
1997 – Soap Opera Weekly
Amy has a message for Helen M. Gallagher, the makeup artist who’s moving to GL:
“All of us will miss you dearly- we’ll miss your sense of humor, your wonderful insights, your sage advice. We’ll also miss how you made us look great even after a hard week of work or a long night of partying. We wish you all the best. And, to those of you at Guiding Light: Take care of her, or else… find another world!”
1995/08/12 – Carl & Josie in Rockin’ Video
Charles Keating (Carl) and Amy Carlson (Josie) star in singer/guitarist Hiram
Bullock’s new music video, “Gonna Walk”, to air on MTV. Hiram is best known for performing on the David Letterman show with band leader Paul Shaffer. “I’ve never been in a music video before,” says Keating. “AW’s stage manager, Arthur Lewis, and Jay Eichler (props) were doing the video with Hiram and asked me to play a wizard.” Amy says: “Recently, I ran into Jay and Arthur, who asked me to be the video’s art director. I told them, ‘Great!'”
1994 – AW’s Josie is no pussycat
JOSIE’S SECRETS CATCH UP with her this week on “Another World”.
Bonnie, the head of the call girl ring Matt and Donna are investigating, turns up insisting that Josie resume working for her.
“Josie was sweet-talked into doing this by Bonnie,” says Amy Carlson of her character’s plight. “She was out in L.A., didn’t have a job and thought it was like going to a party, standing around and talking, and get paid…it didn’t seem out of hand to her. Then Bonnie told her that someone wanted to take her on a date. So, Josie went on the date with Ed McClain and for whatever reason, felt compelled to do what she did.” What did she do? “I think she slept with Ed, and woke up the next morning like, ‘What the hell am I doing?’ Disgusted with herself, she fled.”
That wasn’t the only reason Josie came home. “She needed to deal with her mother’s (Sharlene) death,” Carlson notes. “After everything that happened in L.A., the only person she felt could understand what she was going through is Sharlene, because Sharlene went through this herself (Sharlene was a prostitute). She feels if her mother was there, she could help her figure it out and together they could find a solution.”
Sharlene has been dead for two years, so Josie tries to tell John the truth, but “he thinks she is upset because she lied about her career. She tries to correct him, but the fact that it is so much worse than what he thinks, she just can’t bring herself to do it.
She ends up falling into the traps of her own lies. She just hasn’t learned. That is what is so frustrating about Josie. The poor girl can’t quite get it together.”
Later, Josie forges John’s name on a prescription for sedatives. It looks like Josie intends to use them to deal with her latest round of woes. “Matt asks her to go to the Winter Masquerade, and Bonnie asks Josie to be Ed’s date …who knows what she has planned? It would be really smart of her to use them to drug Ed and get him out of the way for the night,” Carlson laughs, “but Josie’s not always the smartest person.”
-LARA DE LOSH
Soap Opera Weekly scanned picture
1994/11/01 – Soap Opera Weekly
First airdate of AW:
Dec. 31, 1993
Notable credits:
Film: The Baber, TV: The Untouchables, Missing Persons
Why she has star potential:
Having taken over a character that once made teen angst seem like a ride at an amusement park, Carlson has helped Josie move from self-centered whiner to mature young woman. She walked right into a front-burner storyline, and has continually shown. she has what it takes to tackle whatever is thrown her way, be it drama, romance or schtick. Josie still has the quirky self- centeredness that seems to be inherent in the character; however, that quality now enhances Josie, rather than wearing on your last nerve.
Comments from co- worker: “I adore Amy. I think she has terrific natural instincts along with a commitment to the work, to doing good work Those things combined will take her very far.”
Anna Holbrook