Becki Newton

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Height     5 3 16 m Rebecca Sara Becki Newton born July 4 1978 is an American actress best known for her roles as Amanda Tanen on the television series Ugly Betty and Quinn on How I Met Your Mother Born in New Haven Connecticut Becki Newton was raised in Guilford Connecticut She is of English and Czech descent and began performing musicals and plays at local theaters and studied at the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated with a BA in European History At Penn Newton was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority After graduation Newton then moved to New York City and landed several roles in television commercials for such companies as the Olive Garden Newton portrayed the character Amanda Tanen in the comedydrama series Ugly Betty from 2006 to 2010 With costar Michael Urie Newton cohosted the Official Ugly Betty Podcast She also appeared in ABCcoms Mode After Hours webisode series Ugly Betty was canceled in 2010 after four successful seasons allowing the show to receive a proper series finale In late 2009 Newton performed at a New York City Center Encores presentation of the Gershwin musical Girl Crazy which was directed by Jerry Zaks She portrayed Molly Gray and performed opposite reallife husband Chris Diamantopoulos Newton starred in the television series Love Bites The hourlong romantic comedy was created by executive producer Cindy Chupack who worked on Sex and the City NBC announced the pick up of the series in May 2010However with Newton announcing her pregnancy costar Jordana Spiro contractually obligated to stay with her other show My Boys which was later cancelled and Chupacks desire to leave the show Love Bites was pushed back to midseason Love Bites aired in summer 2011 on NBC and was cancelled after eight episodes In November 2011 Newton was cast on CBSs How I Met Your Mother as Quinn a love interest for Neil Patrick Harriss character Barney Stinson She currently stars in the Fox midseason TV series The Goodwin Games Newton met her husband Chris Diamantopoulos in a subway station in New York and they married on 12 May 2005 It was announced on July 1 2010 that Newton and Diamantopolous were expecting their first child She gave birth to a son in early Nov 2010 Her older brother Matt Newton is also an actor He guest starred as the boyfriend of Ugly Betty character Marc St James Her mother Jennifer is an awardwinning artist and her aunt Stephanie Chase is a classical violinist