There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

She is one of the longest-serving serial actors in American media. In 2003 Amanda played a teenage Viki in flashback scenes on One Life to Live. She was not cast on that show but the network offered her the role of Victoria "Viki" Lord Riley on One Life to Live (OLTL).

Erika Alma Hermina Slezak (/ˈsleɪzæk/; born August 5 1946) is an American actress best known for her role as Victoria Lord on the American daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 1971 through the television finale in 2012. She is one of the longest-serving serial actors in American media.