Amy Jo Johnson

This article is about a/an actress in the Power Rangers franchise.

Amy Jo Johnson (born October 6, 1970) is an American and Canadian^[1] actress, singer, musician, and director who portrayed Kimberly Ann Hart/Pink Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. She also portrayed the feature film incarnation of the same character in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie.

Biography[]

At the age of 18, Johnson moved to New York to pursue acting, having attended the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. She later moved to Los Angeles to begin her career.

Six months after moving to LA, she was cast in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Though the show was a success and brought recognition to Johnson's name, the show was non-union and Johnson was not a member of SAG-AFTRA at the time, thus resulting in financial insecurity due to low pay and frequent near exposure to on-set danger; she was almost put on fire for a stunt and was almost electrocuted during filming for Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. Due to this, she chose to leave the show and pass her role down to Catherine Sutherland.

In later interviews, Johnson admitted that her role as the Pink Ranger was something that she would "never live down". The role felt overwhelming and gave her nightmares, but was still nevertheless grateful for her time on the show and the fans it created.

She recently made a cameo appearance alongside Jason David Frank in Power Rangers (2017).

Johnson declined her offer to return for the Netflix special Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always and has not publicly revealed the reason why.^[2]

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Johnson is also well known for playing Julie Emrick on The WB's college drama Felicity, where she started her music career and released her first single called "Puddle of Grace". She is also known for playing the rookie cop Stacy Reynolds on the Lifetime police drama The Division, and the champion jockey Tina Sharp on the TV drama Wildfire.

Between 2008 and 2013, Johnson became one of the stars of the Canadian hit series Flashpoint. For her starring role as SRU negotiator Jules Callaghan, she was nominated for the 2009 Gemini Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role.

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Despite having left the cast since "A Different Shade of Pink", footage of Amy Jo Johnson is used in the opening of MMPR from "Rita's Pita" to "Alien Rangers of Aquitar".
Her favorite episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is Bloom of Doom.
Amy Jo Johnson actually had a gymnast career prior to Power Rangers, but it ended after she chipped the bone in one of her elbows. This is a complete reversal of Kimberly - was originally a Power Ranger, but left to pursue a gymnast career.
She wrote the story, 'Memories of My Mother' in the book 'Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff'.
Her pleasures includes music, painting, and writing. Her painting talent was showcased in the episode Blue Ranger Gone Bad and her musical talents were showcased in The Song Of Guitardo.
- She is a fan of The Grateful Dead, along with many other classic rock bands.
- She is known to play the guitar and piano.
She was one of the attendents to fellow Mighty Morphin Power Rangers co-star, Thuy Trang's, funeral in 2001, along with David Yost, Austin St. John and Walter Emanuel Jones. She was among the speakers at the funeral.
She is the longest serving Power Ranger actress, with the longest serving actor being Jason David Frank (Tommy Oliver).
Out of all of the 5 original cast members, she was the only one present when her character departed from the series.
She is confirmed to have a MySpace page.
She currently mothers a daughter named Francesca, born in December 2008.
She is said to be the most successful actress after her stint in Power Rangers.
Despite being on mostly good terms with Saban, Amy Jo Johnson had admitted that she too had come across issues on occasion regarding pay and safety hazards during filming. She would also admit to at one point having a stalker while she was playing the role of Kimberly.
She's the only actor out of the original six to have never been played by a body double or substitute after leaving the show unless one counts Legendary Battle.
Ironically, in an interview, she claims she hates the color pink, even though she was cast as the Pink Ranger. However, in episodes Crystal of Nightmares, Switching Places and Happy Birthday, Zack, she occasionally wore purple clothing over her pink clothing.
She shares her name with a famous British aviator called Amy Johnson who was piloted during World War II.
In a recent interview conducted by NoPinkSpandex.com, it seems that Amy is finally coming to grips with her work on Power Rangers, because she is laughing and remembering fond memories of everyone she worked with. ^[3] This is in sharp contrast to what she said on I Love the 90s: 1993, in which stated that being on the show as Kimberly was something that she will never be able to live down, which was later implied by her in the later interview to be something she shouldn't have said.
- In this same interview, Amy Jo reveals that like Kimberly and her friendship with Trini, she and Thuy Trang were very close friends. She related a story about how the two had a sleepover, and the morning after an earthquake hit. They were both called into work the same morning.
- In a later No Pink Spandex interview, conducted in 2013, Amy Jo states that she would have loved to come back to reprise her role as Kimberly for Super Megaforce.^[4]

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[1] Johnson became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 2015.

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