Amanda Redman
Amanda Redman was born in Brighton, England, United Kingdom on August 12th, 1957 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 66, Amanda Redman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Amanda Jacqueline Redman, (born 12 August 1957) is an English actress, known for her role as Sandra Pullman in the BBC One series New Tricks (2003–13) and as Dr.
Lydia Fonseca in The Good Karma Hospital (2017–18).
She gained BAFTA TV Award nominations for At Home with the Braithwaites (2000–03) and Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014).
Her film roles include For Queen and Country (1988), Sexy Beast (2000) and Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001).
Early life
Redman was born in Brighton, Sussex. Her father, Ronald Jack Redman (1929–1980), was born in Camberwell, London to parents from the East End, and her mother, Joan Beryl Redman (née Herrington, 1927–2014), was born in India to William Herrington, a British Indian Army soldier. Redman's father died at the age of 51, when she was 23. Redman had one brother, who died of pneumonia in 2008.
Redman is badly scarred on her left arm as a result of an accident when she was 18 months old. She was scalded with a pan of boiling-hot turkey-and-vegetable soup and suffered burns to 75% of her body. Her arm was the only part of her body permanently affected, but the trauma was so severe that she was pronounced clinically dead at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex.
Personal life
Redman married actor Robert Glenister in 1984; they had one child together, daughter Emily, before divorcing in 1992. Redman is credited with encouraging her then-brother-in-law, Philip Glenister, to go to drama school and pursue acting; he has played DCI Gene Hunt in both Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.
Redman was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama and charity.
Career
Redman attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Daniel Day-Lewis and Miranda Richardson were both in the same class.
She appeared as Marina in the BBC Shakespeare production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre opposite Mike Gwilym in 1984. She appeared in Oxbridge Blues, a British television mini-series that was first broadcast on the BBC and first performed by Frederick Raphael in 1984. Janet appeared in the touring version of The Rocky Horror Show in 1985.
In 1986, she appeared in Miss Fairfax (Gwendolen) in the BBC Drama production The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
In Richard's Things (1980), she appeared opposite Liv Ullmann, took over from Alfred Molina in the 1990s comedy drama El C.I.D., playing a new female lead, and appeared in the television film The Blonde Bombshell (1999). In the 1990s, she hosted an MTV show on satellite television. She appeared in the first two seasons of Dangerfield as Joanna Stevens and also appeared in Taggart the same year. Deedee Dove appeared in the film Sexy Beast in 2000. Alison Braithwaite, a woman whose life is turned upside down after winning the lottery in ITV's At Home with the Braithwaiters, from 2000 to 2003.
Sandra Pullman, a DSI, appeared on BBC's New Tricks from 2003 to 2013. Tamzin Outhwaite replaced her after she announced her resignation in July 2013.
Redman appeared in Children's Party at the Palace in June 2006 as Cruella DeVil for the Queen's 80th birthday and was the subject of an episode of BBC documentary series Who Does It Look You Are?, a series that delves into her family history.
Redman appeared as Jackie Rose in the three-part ITV drama The Trials of Jimmy Rose, starring Ray Winstone. Lydia Fonseca appeared in The Good Karma Hospital, an ITV drama series from 2017.
Redman is the maker and principal of the Artists Theatre School. She produces an annual show at The Questors Theatre in Ealing.
She became a member of Brighton Open Air Theatre in 2018.She told the Brighton Argus:
Awards and nominations
- 2001 – Nominated – BAFTA TV Award – Best Actress for At Home with the Braithwaites
- 2002 – Winner – Chlotrudis Award – Best Actress for Sexy Beast
- 2003 – Nominated – National Television Award – Most Popular Actress for At Home with the Braithwaites
- 2007 – Nominated – TV Quick Award – Best Actress for New Tricks
- 2008 – Nominated – Crime Thriller Award – Best Actress for New Tricks
- 2015 – Nominated – BAFTA TV Award – Best Supporting Actress for Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
- 2016 – Winner – New York Festivals International TV and Film Awards – Best Actress for The Trials of Jimmy Rose