Amanda Lawrence
Amanda Lawrence is a British stage, film, and television actress.
Amanda Lawrence | |
|---|---|
| Born | Amanda Jones[citation needed] 1971 (age 49–50) |
| Partner(s) | Carl Grose |
| Children | son |
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Lawrence studied theatre at Bretton Hall College and worked early in her career in the Edinburgh Fringe.[2] She then moved to London and appeared in theatrical productions such as Brief Encounter, Playing the Victim, and The Firework-Maker's Daughter.[2] She led the stage production of in London in 2009.[3][4][5]
In the 2010s she appeared in several television shows, including Above Suspicion, Dead Boss, Midsomer Murders “A Rare Bird” 2012 as Olivia Carter and Mr Selfridge. She also took roles in films, including Womb (2010) and Suffragette (2015). She appeared in a National Theatre production of Angels in America in 2017,[6] and later that year took the role of Larma D'Acy in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and reprised the role in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. In 2019, she appeared in a London production of Top Girls.[1]
In 2020 she played Barbara Farrell in “The Fall of the House of St Gardner”, S8:E9 of Father Brown and in September 2020, she played DC Sarah Raymond in ITV's two-part television drama, Honour.[7] She also appeared in White House Farm (2020) as Barbara Wilson.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b WILLIAMS, HOLLY (March 29, 2019). "Top Girls star Amanda Lawrence: 'This thing about being a mum and an actress – it's big'". The Stage. Archived from the original on 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Interview, What's On Stage, October 27, 2009.
- ^ Review Archived 2021-05-13 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, December 4, 2009
- ^ Review, Liverpool Echo, November 12, 2009
- ^ Review, The Times, November 4, 2009
- ^ Interview Archived 2018-04-04 at the Wayback Machine, Theater Mania
- ^ "Honour". www.itv.com. ITV. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
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