Amanda Hale

For the Canadian writer, see Amanda K. Hale.

Amanda Hale
Born (1982-10-02) 2 October 1982 (age 42)
London, England
OccupationActress
Years active2005–present

Amanda Hale (born 2 October 1982)[1] is an English actress.[2]

Early life

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 University of Oxford to study English but changed her mind and decided to become an actress.[3]

Career

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]

Select credits

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

  1. ^ "20 Questions: Amanda Hale – 'I'd like to swap places with Beyonce'". Archived from the original on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d "Cache of Amanda Hale's profile". RADA. Archived from the original on 5 November 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
  3. ^ "'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.
  4. ^ "RADA – Student & graduate profiles – Amanda Hale". RADA. Archived from the original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  5. ^ 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)
  6. ^ This Is London – Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist Archived 18 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine (31 October 2007)
  7. ^ PBS – Persuasion: Characters Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ 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)
  9. ^ Loveridge, Lizzie, Curtain Up – The Glass Menagerie Archived 8 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine (2007)
  10. ^ "National Theatre – Amanda Hale". Archived from the original on 4 September 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  11. ^ "ITV1 – Murderland". Archived from the original on 22 October 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  12. ^ "Short Stories". Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  13. ^ "BBC – Sense And Sensibility – Media Centre". BBC. Archived from the original on 15 January 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.