Suzy Amis Cameron Biography

American environmental advocate, actress, and model

Suzy Amis Cameron (born Susan Elizabeth Amis, January 5, 1962) is an American former actress, model, author and activist, who advocates for a plant-based diet.

Early life and career

Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Amis Cameron worked as a Ford model before she began acting in the 1980s. She is best known for her role as Rose's granddaughter Lizzy in *anic, and also appeared in films such as Fandango, The Usual Suspects, and The Ballad of Little Jo.

Muse Global Schools

Main article: MUSE School

In 2006, Amis Cameron co-founded Muse Global Schools, a Reggio-inspired, independent, nonprofit school in the Calabasas, California, area north of Los Angeles, with her sister, Rebecca Amis. An exclusively plant-based diet was adopted in the fall of 2015, and it is the country's first plant-based K-12 school with a 100% plant-based lunch program. Additionally, the school is zero waste and 100% solar powered, with Solar Sun Flowers designed by her husband, James Cameron.

Environmental and plant-based activism

In 2009, Amis Cameron founded Red Carpet Green Dress, a global initiative showcasing sustainable fashion on the red carpet at the Oscars. Collaborating with fashion brands such as Armani, Vivienne Westwood, and Reformation, the gowns and tuxedos have included vintage, recycled, repurposed and eco design. Previous campaign amb*adors include Emma Roberts, Priyanka Bose, Naomie Harris, Olga Kurylenko, Kellan Lutz, Sophie Turner, and Missi Pyle.

In 2012, Amis and Cameron became vegan after watching the film Forks Over Knives.

In 2014, Amis Cameron co-founded, with her husband, director James Cameron, and Craig McCaw, Plant Power Task Force, an organization focused on showing the impact of animal agriculture on climate change and the environment. Plant Power Task Force supported the first multi-country studies on global diets and climate change by the independent U.K.-based think tank, Chatham House: Livestock—Climate Change's Forgotten Sector and Changing Diets, Changing Climate. They also spearheaded the MyPlate MyPlanet initiative in spring 2015, a platform for hundreds of environmental and health organizations in support of linking health and the environment in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.

She also is a founder of Cameron Family Farms and Food Forest Organics, a plant-based café and market in New Zealand. Her farm in New Zealand supports regenerative agriculture using 500-600 cattle livestock to improve the soil and help carbon sequestration. In an interview with NZ media the Cameron couple *ured the audience that this was merely a pathway for other NZ farmers in their eventual transition, for the planet, to plant based agriculture, without livestock. A plant-based diet is, she explained, a healthier choice, despite their use of cattle on their land. A shortage of foreign labour during lockdown was another reason for keeping on the cattle, instead of making the transition to plant based agriculture as she and James Cameron had planned.

Book

In fall 2018, Amis Cameron published the plant-based cookbook, OMD: Swap One Meal a Day to Get Healthy, Live Longer, and Save the Planet, with Simon & Schuster's Atria Publishing Group; in 2019, the paperback edition, The OMD Plan: Swap One Meal a Day to Save Your Health and Save the Planet, was published. The OMD Plan was featured on Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul Sunday in Fall 2019. The book inspired Oprah Winfrey to eat one plant-based meal a day.

Personal life

In 1986, she married actor Sam Robards, the son of Lauren Bacall and Jason Robards. Amis and Robards co-starred in the 1985 film Fandango. Their marriage produced a son, Jasper, before their divorce in 1994.

Although Amis and James Cameron met while filming *anic, they did not marry at that time. Instead, Cameron married Linda Hamilton in 1997, and divorced two years later. Amis and Cameron subsequently married in 2000, and have three children. In 2020, they became the permanent guardians for one of their daughter's teenage friends.

Amis, Cameron, and their family live on an organic farm in Hollister Ranch.

Filmography

References

    External links

    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Suzy Amis.
    • Official website
    • Biography (OMD)
    • Suzy Amis Cameron at IMDb
    • Suzy Amis Cameron at the TCM Movie Database
    • Suzy Amis Cameron at AllMovie
    Films
    • Forks Over Knives (2011)
    • PlantPure Nation (2015)
    • What the Health (2017)
    • The Game Changers (2018)
    Books,
    studies
    • Adventist Health Studies
    • The China Study (2005)
    • How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease (2015)
    • The Longevity Diet (2018)
    Organizations
    • Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
    • Pritikin Longevity Center
    Key concepts
    • Dietary fiber
    • Fermented foods
    • Gut microbiota
    • Gut microbiome
    • Plant-based action plan
    Nutrition
    • Vegan nutrition
    • Vegetarian nutrition
    Food
    • Fruit
    • Herbs and spices
    • Legumes
    • Nuts
    • Seeds
    • Vegetables
    • Whole grains
    Drink
    • Cacao
    • Coffee
    • Plant milk
    • Tea
    • Category
    • Commons
    EthicsFood
    and drink
    • Agave syrup
    • Chicken fillet roll
    • Coconut burger
    • Coconut milk
    • Fruits
    • Grains
      • cereals
      • legumes
    • Gelatin subs*utes
      • Agar
      • Carrageenan
      • Gulaman
      • Konjac jelly
      • Microbial cellulose
    • Jambon
    • Meat alternative
      • List of meat subs*utes
    • Miso
    • Mochi
    • Mock duck
    • Nutritional yeast
    • Plant cream
    • Plant milk
    • Quinoa
    • Quorn
    • Seitan
    • Soy yogurt
    • Tempeh
    • Tofu
    • Tofurkey
    • Cheese
    • Vegepet
    • Vegetables
    • Hot dog
    • Vegetarian mark
    • Sausage
    • Sausage roll
    • Beer
    • Wine
    • Veggie burger
    Groups
    and eventsCompanies
    • List of vegetarian and vegan companies
    Books,
    reports,
    journals
    • On Abstinence from Eating Animals (3rd century)
    • An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty (1802)
    • Vegetable Cookery (1812)
    • A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813)
    • Reasons for not Eating Animal Food (1814)
    • Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824)
    • Nature's Own Book (1835)
    • Fruits and Farinacea (1845)
    • The Pleasure Boat (1845)
    • The Ethics of Diet (1883)
    • What is Vegetarianism? (1886)
    • Shelley's Vegetarianism (1891)
    • Behind the Scenes in Slaughter-Houses (1892)
    • Why I Am a Vegetarian (1895)
    • Figs or Pigs? (1896)
    • Thirty-nine Reasons Why I Am a Vegetarian (1903)
    • The Meat Fetish (1904)
    • The New Ethics (1907)
    • A Fleshless Diet (1910)
    • The Benefits of Vegetarianism (1927)
    • Living the Good Life (1954)
    • Ten Talents (1968)
    • Diet for a Small Planet (1971)
    • The Vegetarian Epicure (1972)
    • Moosewood Collective Cookbooks (1973)
    • The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook (1975)
    • Laurel's Kitchen (1976)
    • Moosewood Cookbook (1977)
    • Fit for Life (1985)
    • Diet for a New America (1987)
    • The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990)
    • Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone (1997)
    • The China Study (2005)
    • Skinny * (2005)
    • Livestock's Long Shadow (2006)
    • The Bloodless Revolution (2006)
    • Eating Animals (2009)
    • Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows (2009)
    • The Vegan Studies Project (2015)
    • Animal (De)liberation (2016)
    • The End of Animal Farming (2018)
    • Vegetable Kingdom (2020)
    • Making a Stand for Animals (2022)
    • Meat Atlas (annual)
    Films and shows
    • The Animals Film (1981)
    • Diet for a New America (film) (1991)
    • A Cow at My Table (1998)
    • Meet Your Meat (2002)
    • Post Punk Kitchen (2003–2005)
    • Peaceable Kingdom (2004)
    • Earthlings (2005)
    • A Sacred Duty (2007)
    • Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (2010)
    • Planeat (2010)
    • Forks Over Knives (2011)
    • Vegucated (2011)
    • Live and Let Live (2013)
    • Cowspiracy (2014)
    • PlantPure Nation (2015)
    • What the Health (2017)
    • Carnage (2017)
    • Dominion (2018)
    • Eating You Alive (2018)
    • The Game Changers (2018)
    • You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment (2024)
    Magazines
    • Naked Food
    • Satya
    • Vegetarian Times
    • VegNews
    • The Animals' Agenda
    Academics,
    authors,
    physiciansChefs and
    cookbook authors
    • Nava Atlas
    • Mayim Bialik
    • Gypsy Boots
    • BOSH!
    • Edward Espe Brown
    • Tabitha Brown (actress)
    • Suzy Amis Cameron
    • Hannah Che
    • Pinky Cole
    • Chloe Coscarelli
    • Yamuna Devi
    • Sue Donaldson
    • Crescent Dragonwagon
    • Rose Elliot
    • Rip Esselstyn
    • Carol Lee Flinders
    • Dick Gregory
    • Richa Hingle
    • Madhur Jaffrey
    • Mollie Katzen
    • Frances Moore Lappé
    • Deborah Madison
    • Linda McCartney
    • Mary McCartney
    • Tracye McQuirter
    • Joanne Lee Molinaro
    • Moosewood Collective
    • Isa Chandra Moskowitz
    • Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
    • Gaz Oakley
    • Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
    • Mathew Pritchard
    • Satchidananda Saraswati
    • Derek Sarno
    • Miyoko Schinner
    • Alicia Silverstone
    • Bryant Terry
    • Anna Thomas
    • Haile Thomas
    • Lauren Toyota
    • Jeeca Uy
    • Umberto Veronesi
    • Nisha Vora
    • Alan Wakeman
    Restaurants
    • Ben & Esther's Vegan Jewish Deli
    • Cinnaholic
    • Crossroads Kitchen
    • Greens Restaurant
    • Little Pine (restaurant)
    • *ty Vegan
    • Souley Vegan
    • Veggie Grill
    Related
    • Vegetarian and vegan symbolism
    • List of vegan media
    • Juice fasting
    • Vegetarian and vegan dog diet
    • Vegaphobia
    • Plant-based diet
    • Sustainable diet
      • Low-carbon
      • Planetary health
    • Flexitarianism
      • Pescetarianism
      • Pollotarianism

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