Actor
Amy Carlson
July 7, 1968 · Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA
Amy Lynn Carlson (born July 7, 1968 height 5' 6" (1,68 m)) is an American actress best known for playing Josie Watts on Another World and Alex Taylor on Third Watch. More recently, she played Kelly Gaffney on the short-lived NBC courtroom drama, Law & Order: Trial by Jury. She currently plays Linda Reagan on the CBS drama Blue Bloods.When Carlson was 13, her family (consisting of her parents, herself, and three siblings) moved to Amman, Jordan, for one year, where her parents had been hired to teach at the American Community School. After returning to the United States, Carlson attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. While in college, Carlson was active in the school’s theatre department, appearing in Fifth of July, Noises Off, A Lie of the Mind, and School for Scandal. Carlson graduated cum laude.
Carlson is represented by Karen Foreman on behalf of the The Domain Agency. She is managed by Estelle Lasher and Principal Entertainment.
Notable work
5.2Green Lantern (2011)
as Jessica Jordan
8Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
as Patricia Andrews and as Katie McGrath
8.3Criminal Minds (2005)
as Cece Hillenbrand
8.1Fringe (2008)
as Maureen Donovan
7.6NCIS (2003)
as Karen Sutherland
7.6CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
as Kate Armstrong
8.2Daredevil: Born Again (2025)
as Gloria Blake
7.8Blue Bloods (2010)
as Linda Reagan
7.8ER (1994)
as Alex Taylor
7.3Law & Order (1990)
as Collette Connolly
7.6FBI: Most Wanted (2020)
as Jackie Ward
Often works with
Mike Doyle
2 titles together
Green Lantern, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Dann Florek
2 titles together
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order
Jennifer Esposito
2 titles together
NCIS, Blue Bloods
Alana de la Garza
2 titles together
Law & Order, FBI: Most Wanted
Paul Giamatti
2 titles together
Too Big to Fail, If These Walls Could Talk 2
Nia Long
2 titles together
Third Watch, If These Walls Could Talk 2
Full filmography · 34
Peas and Carrots
as Laurie Wethersby
2025
Know Fear
as Wendy
2022
The Incoherents
as Jerry
2019
Sunny Daze
as Samantha
2019
A Bread Factory, Part One: For the Sake of Gold
as Grace
2018
Landline
as Carla
20176.2
Natural Selection
as Laura
20165.3
A Midsummer's Hawaiian Dream
as Helen
2016
Hits
as Christina Casserta
20144.8
Too Big to Fail
as Erin Callan
20116.9
Green Lantern
as Jessica Jordan
20115.2
The Kidnapping
as Rachel McKenzie
2008