Amanda Carlson is a member of the Socialites from the Magicsecret sub-neighborhood shipped with The Sims 2: Apartment Life. She appears in every neighborhood, being occasional the neighbor of Sims who live in a high apartment. She can be made playable by befriending and asking her to move in, or by marrying her. Like all pre-made townies, her relationships with other townies are usually randomized at the start of the game. She is employed in the Businesscareer as a Vice President at the start of the game. However, her career will randomly change to match her social class, when she moves in as a neighbor or is searched as a possible roommate.
As far as personality, Amanda is very active and quite outgoing, but she is somewhat sloppy and quite serious and grouchy. When it comes to skills, she has 5 points in charisma, 4 in logic and 3 in creativity. She is mostly interested in Fashion. She has the same facial structure as Elizabeth Sell. Even though she has brown hair, her SimDNA in SimPE confirms that her natural hair color is black. This is further supported as she has black eyebrows. She can be seen in one of the photos in the Rutherford household album.