Amanda Hale (born 2 October 1982)[1] is a British actress.[2]
Amanda Hale | |
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| Born | (1982-10-02) 2 October 1982 (age 39) London, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2005–present |
Hale is one of four children born to Irish immigrant parents in northwest London.[citation needed] Her cousin is scientist Martin Glennie. She had been due to go to Oxford University to study English but changed her mind and decided to become an actress.[3]
Hale trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2005[2] with a BA in Acting Degree (H Level)[4] and has performed on both stage and screen. Some of her earliest acting experience include a couple of plays at the National Youth Theatre.[2]
At drama school, she won the Audience Prize and Best Fight Award at the 2003 RADA Prize Fights.[2] She was also nominated for two Evening Standard Theatre Awards (the Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer[5] and Best Actress[6]) in November 2007[7] for her critically acclaimed[8] performance as Laura Wingfield in Tennessee Williams' classic play The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Theatre in London.[9]
In September 2009, Hale made her Royal National Theatre debut in Our Class, a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek,[10] and in October 2009, she appeared alongside Robbie Coltrane and Sharon Small in the new three-part ITV1 drama Murderland.[11] In April 2011, she appeared as Agnes Rackham in the BBC adaptation The Crimson Petal and the White with co-star Romola Garai. The following year, she collaborated again with Garai in the short film Scrubber.[12] In June 2013, she played Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, in the BBC series The White Queen, based on Philippa Gregory's best-selling historical novel series The Cousins' War. In the same year, she starred as Elinor Dashwood in Helen Edmundson's BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.[13]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2005 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Cecily Cardew | Oxford Playhouse (August–September) |
| 2006 | Crooked | Laney | Bush Theatre (May–June) |
| 2007 | The Glass Menagerie | Laura Wingfield | Apollo Theatre (January–May) |
| Persuasion | Mary Elliot Musgrove | ||
| Jekyll | Sally | Episode #1.4 | |
| Richard is My Boyfriend | Anna Taylor | ||
| 2008 | The City | Jenny | Royal Court Theatre |
| Pornography | Traverse Theatre/ Birmingham Rep | ||
| 2008–09 | King Lear | Cordelia | Headlong Theatre |
| 2009 | Pornography | BBC Radio 3 | |
| After Dido | Helen | Young Vic | |
| Bright Star | Reynolds' Sister | ||
| Murderland | Carol | ITV1 | |
| 2010 | Spooks | Meg Kirby | BBC One |
| 2011 | Rev | Abi Johnston | Series 2 Episode No. 2 |
| The Crimson Petal and the White | Mrs. Agnes Rackham | BBC Two | |
| 2012 | Scrubber | Jenny | short film |
| 2012–13 | Ripper Street | Emily Reid | BBC One |
| 2013 | The White Queen | Margaret Beaufort | BBC One |
| Being Human | Lady Mary | BBC Three | |
| Dates | Helen | Episode #1.8 | |
| The Invisible Woman | Fanny Ternan | ||
| Sense and Sensibility | Elinor Dashwood | BBC Radio 4 | |
| 2014 | Uncle Vanya | Sonya | St. James Theatre (October–November) |
| 2015–19 | Catastrophe | Catherine | Channel 4 |
| 2017 | Three Girls | Rachel Smith | BBC One; Episode #1.3 |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Officer Kandia | Lucasfilm Ltd. and Bad Robot Productions |
| 2020 | Death in Paradise | Tabitha Brown | Red Planet Pictures; Episode: 9.1 "La Murder Le Diablé" |
| 2021 | A Discovery of Witches | Mary Sidney | Season 2 episodes 2 and 3 |
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