Amanda Brugel

The actress, who plays Rita on the Hulu drama, will return full-time for the 13-episode second season.

Amanda Brugel, the lone Canadian cast member in Season 1 of The Handmaid's Tale, has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming second season.

Amanda got a scholarship to university because of a paper she wrote on The Handmaid's Tale.

Amanda Brugel has booked a recurring role opposite Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes and Yvonne Strahovski in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

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Amanda Brugel, Actress: The Handmaid's Tale. Amanda Brugel was born on March 24, 1978 in Pointe Claire, Québec, Canada as Amanda Ellen Baker. She is an actress, known for The Handmaid's Tale (2017), Room (2015) and Eyewitness (2016). She has been married to Marcel Lewis since March 7, 2008.

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Amanda Brugel is a Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Michelle Krasnoff in the short-lived Canadian comedy series Seed (2013–2014). In 2013, Brugel co-starred as Vanessa in the Canadian comedy film Sex After Kids, for which she won an ACTRA Award for Best Female Performance. She later appeared in the David Cronenberg satirical drama film Maps to the Stars (2014), and the BBC-Space science fiction television series Orphan Black (2015) and The Handmaid's Tale (2017-present).