Amy Walker

Amy Frances Walker is an American actress, singer, music video director, and artist.

Amy Walker was born in Seattle, Washington. Growing up, she performed in a wide variety of plays and musicals, including Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Hero in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker.

Walker studied acting and singing at the University of Wollongong in Australia. From Australia, she moved to Wellington, New Zealand, where she played Joan in the wartime love story short film Dead Letters by Paolo Rotondo.

Amy has worked as a voice actress for the character Lunara in the video game Heroes of the Storm published by Blizzard.

Walker has gained considerable attention from her YouTube video 21 Accents, and over 100 other videos online. 21 Accents earned her appearances on both The Today Show and Inside Edition. She also partnered with Nokia as an accent expert to promote their Foreign Accent Cup.

Walker performed her first original one-woman show, Amy Walker: Inside Out, in November 2007 and has since created three other original shows, on stage and online, where viewers were able to interact with her from around the globe.

• Discourse on Accents (Third Man Records, 2011)

She has painted various paintings during her career as an artist. She learned how to paint in college. She has stated that although she only does it as a hobby, she also sells some of her paintings online.

On September 24, 2011, Walker was a host and a featured speaker at the TEDx conference in Phoenixville, PA.

In 2008, she received an award at the International Mystery Writers Festival for "Best Actress" and "Best Supporting Actress". Walker was awarded Best Actress for her role as Pam Brent in Personal Call the following year. With Mike Shafer, she was awarded Best Music Video for We Are Connected at the 2009 Raindance Short Film Festival.