Amanda Hale (born 2 October 1982)[1] is an English actress.[2]
Amanda Hale | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 October 1982 London, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2005–present |
Early life
editHale 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 University of Oxford to study English but changed her mind and decided to become an actress.[3]
Career
editHale 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]
Select credits
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| 2008–2009 | 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 |
| 2012–2013 | 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) |
| 2015–2019 | Catastrophe | Catherine | Channel 4 |
| 2016 | Jane Eyre | Jane Eyre | BBC Radio 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 |
| 2020 | Death in Paradise | Tabitha Brown | Red Planet Pictures; Episode: 9.1 "La Murder Le Diablé" |
| 2021 | A Discovery of Witches | Mary Sidney | Series 2, episodes 2 and 3 |
References
edit- ^ "20 Questions: Amanda Hale – 'I'd like to swap places with Beyonce'". Archived from the original on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ^ a b c d "Cache of Amanda Hale's profile". RADA. Archived from the original on 5 November 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
- ^ "'I'm still at the very beginning' – Features – The Stage". 6 April 2011. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
- ^ "RADA – Student & graduate profiles – Amanda Hale". RADA. Archived from the original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
- ^ Smith, Alistair, The Stage – Evening Standard Theatre Awards pay tribute to former host Sherrin Archived 12 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine (31 October 2007)
- ^ This Is London – Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist Archived 18 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine (31 October 2007)
- ^ PBS – Persuasion: Characters Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Broadway.com in London – Were Critics Enchanted by Jessica Lange in the West End's Glass Menagerie? Archived 3 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine (14 February 2007)
- ^ Loveridge, Lizzie, Curtain Up – The Glass Menagerie Archived 8 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine (2007)
- ^ "National Theatre – Amanda Hale". Archived from the original on 4 September 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ "ITV1 – Murderland". Archived from the original on 22 October 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
- ^ "Short Stories". Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
- ^ "BBC – Sense And Sensibility – Media Centre". BBC. Archived from the original on 15 January 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
External links
edit- Amanda Hale at IMDb