Author: Unknown
Magazine: FHM (US), issue April 2003

Brainiacs rejoice! Angel’s resident geek loses more than her glasses.

Hollywood has a way of providing us with unrealistic expectations, as anyone who’s ever tried to cure an ill child with the wet nose of a puppy will attest. Similarly, in real life, having an ugly girl shake her hair loose and take off her glasses doesn’t produce an unexpected beauty. It produces a heinous chick who can’t see. Blame your disillusionment on filmmakers who cast smoking hotties as even the mousiest social outcasts. Those seeking proof need only look at the TV show Angel, where the bookish demon-buster Winifred “Fred” Burkle is played by the devilishly gorgeous Amy Acker.

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Author: Ian Spelling
Magazine: Starburst (UK), issue December 2001 (#280; Vol. 26, No. 3)

She’s been stuck in a demon dimension for years, but now she’s back in the real world — if Los Angeles counts! Meet Angel’s new assistant, Fred, aka Amy Acker…

When the team from Angel Investigations headed over the rainbow to Pylea in search of the kidnapped Cordelia, they weren’t to know they were about to get a new recruit to the team. In Season Three Amy Acker becomes a regular character, as Fred, a woman returning to reality after five years away…

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Author: Paul Simpson
Magazine: Buffy & Angel (US), issue April/May 2007 (#30)

In a retrospective interview, we talk to Amy Acker about life after the end of Angel and Alias, and her ambitions for the future. Is Amy heading for a career in comedy? Read on to find out…

It’s been a very busy three years for Amy Acker. Since Angel finished, she has been working on Alias and Justice League Unlimited, giving birth (to Jackson James and Ava Grace), and delighting fans with regular appearances at conventions. We met up at Starfury’s “Not Fade Away” convention for an Amy update!

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Author: Tara DiLullo
Magazine: Alias (US), issue March/April 2006 (#14)

From Angel fan favourite as the loveable Fred, to cold-hearted psycho Kelly Peyton on Alias, this is an actress who is triumphant with every character she takes on. Amy Acker takes time out from dispatching the good guys to tell Tara DiLullo all about the exciting piece she is playing within the Alias puzzle…

With her big brown eyes and her shy, charming laugh, it’s hard to imagine actress Amy Acker playing anything other than a sweet-as-pie heroine with nothing but peace and love in her heart. That is, until you’ve seen her in action on Alias as the Prophet Five bad girl, Kelly Peyton.

Acker is proving to be quite the scene-stealer, playing a sly, worldly villain that’s scarily convincing when she whips out a knife and brutally guts someone twice her size with a gleeful smile. Of course, fans of her work from the series Angel are already well aware of her exceptional talents as she transformed herself on that show from a cute scientist named Fred to a blue-haired, ex-God, superwoman named Illyria. The roles were at opposite ends of the spectrum, but Acker sold them both perfectly, wowing audiences.

Now on Alias, she gets to surprise audiences again by being very nasty to Sydney Bristow, first with her accomplice Gordon Dean and now, Syd’s own mom, Irina Derevko. Fresh from the winter hiatus, Amy Acker sat down with Alias Magazine to share some secret Intel on her wicked alter ego and her hopes for the trouble Peyton has yet to unleash on the APO team…

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Author: Unknown
Magazine: In Touch (US), issue April 19, 2004

Amy’s Little Angel
Her TV character’s gone from brainiac to maniac, but she can always talk to her adorable terrior.

Around the set of The WB’s Angel, Amy Acker is known as a charming team player with lots of close pals among the cast. Her nerdy character, Winifred, is also popular with her peers, helping keep LA vampire-free — with a little help from her friends.

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