Amanda Brugel
(February 27 2010 - Toronto ON) Pointe Claire is a secluded community in that part of the island of Montreal known as"the West Island. This West Island, to those who are unfamiliar with it, is a large area that extends from Lachine all the way west. Amanda Brugel's birthplace is frequently mentioned, but her brief stay wasn't. Brugel was raised in Courtice located just outside of Oshawa. When she was a child she wanted to be a performer but an unexpected expansion of her body made it impossible. In an interview with Toronto Star, she confessed that "In heels I am 6 feet and 1 inch." Once I was bigger than any male partner and stopped dancing, I quit. A lot of former dancers go on into acting. In Brugel's case it was the nudge of the drama instructor at her high school that encouraged her to go in that direction. One of her teachers suggested she take part in an audition for the annual school production. It was her choice to take on the principal character o