Bianca Amato lives in New York City. She was born and raised in South Africa, where she trained at the University of Cape Town’s Drama school, graduating with distinction. She was awarded the Cum Laude prize for Best Student of Dramatic Art. She then went on to work in theater (landing two national awards – the Vita and the Fleur Du Cap - for her performances in Greek and Under Milkwood) as well as television in South Africa, culminating in playing the lead in South Africa’s premiere television series Isidingo –The Need for three years, for which she was nominated Best Actress in the South African equivalent of The Golden Globes. She moved to New York in 2002. She has since played a number of exciting roles at the Guthrie Theater, including Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice, Rosalind in As You Like It, Marlene in Topgirls, and Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (Star Tribune award for best performance of 2004). She has played opposite Bill Irwin at the Signature Theater (Mr.Fox: A Rumination) and Kevin Kline at the Public Theater (Goneril, King Lear workshop). She played Gwendolen in The Importance Of Being Earnest at BAM, directed by Sir Peter Hall and starring Lynn Redgrave, as well as Emma Herwegh in The 2007 Tony award-winning Tom Stoppard trilogy The Coast of Utopia, alongside Ethan Hawke, Billy Crudup, Martha Plimpton and Jennifer Ehle. She played opposite Michael Christopher in Trumpery at the Atlantic theater, and her performance was cited by John Simon on Broadway.Com as one of the Top Five Performances in New York City in 2007. Recent performances include Lady Croom in Arcadia, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Katharina in The Taming of The Shrew at The Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Television credits while in New York include guest appearances on Sex And The City, The Good Wife, and Blue Bloods.

Bianca also narrates Audio-books, and received an Audie Award in 2011 for The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte and in 2007 for Listening For Lions, as well as a number of Audiofile Earphones Awards. To date she has narrated upwards of 30 novels.

Bianca works as a private acting coach specializing in classical monologues, audition preparation, and Received Pronunciation/ English accent text work.