Maybe she's stuck up; the New York Post once whispered that a play Amanda was in was forced to cancel a showing last minute because of "particles of dust floating around in the lights." Perhaps she's a rebel; Amanda quit school when she was 14 years old, and has been making a living on her own since. (Her first job, she told The New York Times, was as an exerciser and apprentice jockey on a horse track.)

Or it might be that she just doesn't fit inside a box. Even growing up, Amanda blurred the lines, struggling to fit in as both a boy and a girl, experimenting with different alter-egos. "I found a happy medium — that I am a boy and I am a girl. You're everything, so it's okay," she recounted to Rolling Stone. The magazine called Amanda "funny and flighty, grave and giggly, solemn and spooky," all at once.

Above all, Amanda has stories to tell. Like the time she met Tennessee Williams on the set of a play. "He had a smile that is emblazoned on your brow for life," she recalled in a chat with The New York Times. Or when, upon meeting Hollywood legend Sir Laurence Olivier, her hair caught on fire. Olivier promptly told her, "You've upstaged me" (via The Hollywood Reporter). And that's because Amanda, like her father Christopher once said, "can raise tempests" (via The Guardian). She is, unequivocally, alive.