Charlene Amoia
Charlene Amoia is an actor, born 1982.
Wendy the Waitress has no surname and barely has a storyline, and she is still the most recognisable thing Charlene Amoia has done. How I Met Your Mother needed somebody to bring drinks to the same booth for years on end, and the show kept her long enough that the audience began treating her as furniture in the good sense: a face that meant you were in the right bar.
That is a strange sort of fame, and it has not shaped the rest of the work. Amoia, raised in Buffalo, came to acting from modelling and has built a filmography that leans hard into horror. She is Judy Glatzel in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, Rachel Thompson in Fear Street: 1994 and again in Fear Street: 1666, and Maria Bertinelli in Birds of Prey. Outside the genre there is Ellie in American Reunion, Eudora in Authors Anonymous, and Janet Conrad in Sniper: Special Ops.
The current slate is an honest picture of a working character actor: independent horror, television movies and Christmas pictures, several of them in the same year. Descendent, Do You Fear What I Fear, Have We Met This Christmas, A Royal Christmas Tail. A Scary Movie credit is listed for 2026.
Movies (15)
- Scary Movie (2026)
- The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
- American Reunion (2012)
- Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
- Fear Street: 1994 (2021)
- Fear Street: 1666 (2021)
- Descendent (2025)
- Sniper: Special Ops (2016)
- Fear of Flying (2024)
- Authors Anonymous (2014)
- A Royal Christmas Tail (2025)
- A Demon Within (2017)
- Adverse (2021)
- Do You Fear What I Fear? (2025)
- Have We Met This Christmas? (2025)
TV (2)
Where to start with Charlene Amoia
How I Met Your Mother is the obvious first stop and the least representative one. Wendy is a background fixture with a handful of real moments, and the pleasure is in spotting how much presence Amoia gets out of a part with no arc.
For actual acting, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the pick: Judy Glatzel belongs to a family the film needs to feel completely ordinary, and the haunting rests on that being convincing. Fear Street: 1994 and Fear Street: 1666 are the pair to watch together, since her character carries across both. American Reunion is the comedy stop, and Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is the biggest production on the list, though it moves past her quickly. Everything else is the working end of the business.