Amanda Hale

Amanda graduated from RADA in 2005, quickly establishing herself as a successful theatre, TV and film actress. She has appeared in The House Of Bernada Alba, directed by Bijan Sheibani at the Almeida Theatre alongside Shohreh Aghdashloo and starred in the critically-acclaimed Crimson Petal and the White for the BBC alongside Chris O'Dowd. Amanda has also appeared in Ripper Street opposite Matthew Macfadyen for the BBC. Her further TV credits include Rev alongside Tom Hollander, Any Human Heart, Spooks, Murderland, Persuasion and Richard is my Boyfriend.

Amanda has also enjoyed success on the stage, appearing in Wastwater at the Royal Court, written by Simon Stephens and directed by Katie Mitchell. Further theatre credits include: Elektra (Young Vic); Our Class (National Theatre); After Dido, King Lear (Young Vic); Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse Theatre); The City (Royal Court); The Glass Menagerie (Bill Kenwright Productions/The Lyric West End) for which she was nominated for The Evening Standard Milton Shulman Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer for 2007. Amanda was also nominated for The Critics' Circle Most Promising Newcomer Award for Crooked at the Bush Theatre in 2005.

Amanda is fast establishing herself as a film actress, with roles in Jane Campion's Bright Star and Michael Winterbottom's The Look of Love, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

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