Birthday:
01-01-1971
(54 years)
Birthplace:
United Kingdom
Biography
Amanda Lawrence is a British actress.
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 Resistance commander 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.
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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 Resistance commander 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.
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28 Weeks Later
Act like Carpark Civilian
event2007 star_border 6.6
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The inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.
National Theatre Live: Top Girls
Act like Pope Joan
event2019
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Now hiring: top girls wanted for prestige positions. Must be self-motivated go-getters with an appetite for success. No timewasters. Marlene is the first woman to head the Top Girls employment agency. But she has no plans to stop there. With Maggie in at Number 10 and a spirit of optimism consuming the country, Marlene knows that the future belongs to women like her.
How I See You
Act like The Friend
event2022
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A chance encounter with a photographer sends a woman on a journey of self-identity.
Wander to Wonder
Act like Mary (voice)
event2024 star_border 6.6
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In the 1980s, Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton starred in the children's television program Wander to Wonder. They are left alone in the studio after the show's originator passed away.
Wonder Boy
Act like Wainwright
event2022
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Sonny is twelve. Living with a stammer, he is finding his way in a world ruled by vicious vowels, confusing consonants, and let’s not forget the biggest beast of them all – small talk. A comic book hero of Sonny’s own creation helps him take on his school and home life troubles – but communication is power, and Sonny must find a way to be heard. But when cast in the school production of Hamlet – his worst nightmare – he soon finds the real heroes are closer than he thinks. Dive head-first into the wondrous, hilarious, and moving Wonder Boy in a coming-of-age story that champions the power of communication against an unforgiving school system. Packed with larger-than-life characters, live music and ground-breaking creative captioning, Wonder Boy will capture your heart and take it to the moon.
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Act like Meakin
event2021 star_border 6.2
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Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually ghosts. They’ve travelled forwards in time to seek help, believing they’re going to be murdered by the wicked Mr and Mrs Wickens. And Lucy and Jamie’s strange visitor seems to be the key to it all. With his help, they must travel back to 1821 to save Sara and Georgie and redeem their remorseful new friend – The Amazing Mr Blunden.
Tamara Drewe
Act like Mary
event2010 star_border 5.9
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A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Club Zero
Act like Miss Benedict
event2023 star_border 5.6
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Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class and forms a strong bond with five students that eventually takes a dangerous turn.
Brides
Act like Miss Westgate
event2025
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Two teenage girls in search of freedom, friendship, and belonging run away from their troubled lives with a misguided plan of traveling to Syria.
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Act like Cook
event2022 star_border 6.8
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An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results.
Suffragette
Act like Miss Withers
event2015 star_border 7.2
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Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
Real
Act like Monique
event2019 star_border 5.8
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In inner-city Portsmouth, an unremarkable newsagent’s sits between a courthouse and a business centre. It’s here that sparks fly between well-dressed Kyle and equally poised Jamie. Yet despite their outward appearances, both are struggling to move on from hardship they’d rather keep hidden. As their feelings for one another blossom, their pasts resurface, threatening to break them apart before their relationship has even begun.
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!
Act like Supply Teacher 3
event2012 star_border 5.3
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This sequel to the popular British comedy sees a new teacher (David Tennant) take over. When he enters his school in the National 'Song for Christmas' Competition, he and his pregnant wife, and the schoolchildren, embark on an epic road trip that ends up with a birth and a donkey, where he must embrace his fears and become a hero.
Henry VIII - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Act like The Fool/Virginia, A Lady-in-Waiting
event2010
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The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King's first minister and the country's most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power. Wolsey's ambition knows no bounds and when his chief ally, Queen Katherine, interferes in the King's romance with Ann Bullen, he brings ruin upon himself, the Queen and centuries of English obedience to Rome.
We Are the Freaks
Act like Mrs Parsons
event2013 star_border 5.4
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Three misfits embark on a weekend they will never forget.
Mr. Turner
Act like Hannah's Friend
event2014 star_border 6.5
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Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
Denial
Act like Court Usher
event2016 star_border 6.9
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Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Act like Commander D'Acy
event2017 star_border 6.8
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Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.
Christopher Robin
Act like Joan MacMillan
event2018 star_border 7.3
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Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.
Summerland
Act like Muriel
event2020 star_border 7.5
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A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Act like Commander D'Acy
event2019 star_border 6.3
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The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
Misbehaviour
Act like Miss Gilboy
event2020 star_border 6.4
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A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.
Unseen
Act like Manager
event2017
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A cleaner in a brand new apartment block begins to suspect one of the residents is a victim of domestic abuse.
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
Act like The Angel/Voice Of Orrin/Mormon Centre Mother/Nurse Emily
event2017 star_border 8.6
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America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This new staging of Tony Kushner's multi-award winning two-part play, Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes, is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott.
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
Act like The Angel/The Voice/Nurse Emily/Sister Chapter/Homeless Woman
event2017 star_border 8.6
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The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Act like Medium
event2010 star_border 5.9
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Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest
Act like Miss Prism
event2025 star_border 9
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Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least Jack thinks so. While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade. Unfortunately, living a double life has its drawbacks, especially when it comes to love. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate.
The Lady
Act like Nurse - UK Hospital
event2011 star_border 6.8
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The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
10 Minute Tales
(1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7.5
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The biggest names in writing, acting and directing come together in a series of shorts on Sky1 HD this festive period. Experience a novel Noel with these original, uplifting and highly creative slices of silent cinema that prove actions do speak louder than words. Starring Mackenzie Crook, Bill Nighy, Peter Capaldi, Ross Kemp, and a host of major stars, each of the 10 Minute Tales promises to be a unique and engaging look at life, loss, and love.
Above Suspicion
Act like DC Joan Faulkland (11 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7
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Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds, and features the career of La Plante's latest heroine DC Anna Travis.
The first series, Above Suspicion, was shown on the fourth and fifth of January 2009; the second series, Above Suspicion: The Red Dahlia, was shown on the fourth, fifth and sixth of January 2010. The third series, Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent, was shown on the third, fourth and fifth of January 2011. The fourth series, Above Suspicion – Silent Scream was shown on the ninth, sixteenth and twenty-third of January 2012; in a break from the previous broadcasts, which were broadcast on consecutive days, this latest tale was serialised weekly.
ITV cancelled Above Suspicion on May 28, 2012.
Father Brown
Act like Barbara Farrell (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.5
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Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
The Change
Act like Janet (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 8.1
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Linda finds a new lease on life when she learns that she's experiencing menopause. So she heads to the forest on a journey of self-discovery.
Houdini & Doyle
Act like Sister Mathilda (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 6.5
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will take on cases that involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists…or are they a ruse to conceal murder?
Ridley
Act like Lorna Spalden (1 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6
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Retired Detective Inspector Alex Ridley is lured back into service as a consultant detective when his former protégée, Carol Farman, needs help cracking a complex murder case.
Avenue 5
Act like Paula (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 6.5
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40 years in the future, space captain Ryan Clark and the crew of the luxury space cruise ship Avenue 5 navigate disgruntled passengers and unexpected events after experiencing technical difficulties onboard.
Alice & Jack
Act like Dr. Feldshue (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 5.3
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When Alice and Jack first meet, they have a connection so powerful it seems nothing can break it, but can they find happiness together, or will their own emotional complexities get in the way?
Midsomer Murders
Act like Olivia Carter (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 7.5
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The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Ludwig
Act like Julie Tate (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 7.6
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John Taylor lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of 'Ludwig'. When his identical twin, James, disappears off the face of the earth, John takes over his brother's identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts.
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