| Amanda Hale | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1982 London United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2005-present |
Amanda Hale (born 1982) is a British actress.[1] She won positive reviews for her performance in The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Shaftesbury in the West End.[2]
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Hale trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2005,[3] and has performed on both stage and screen.
At drama school, she won the Awarded Audience Prize and Best Fight Award at the 2003 RADA Prize Fights.[4] She was also nominated for two Evening Standard 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 NT 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 mentally ill Agnes Rackham in the BBC adaptation The Crimson Petal and the White.
| 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 | Royal Court Theatre | |
| Pornography | Traverse Theatre/ Birmingham Rep | ||
| 2008-9 | King Lear | Cordelia | Headlong Theatre |
| 2009 | Pornography | BBC Radio 3 | |
| After Dido | Helen | Young Vic | |
| Bright Star | Reynolds' Sister | ||
| Murderland | ITV1 | ||
| 2010 | Spooks | Meg Kirby | BBC One |
| The Crimson Petal and the White | Agnes Rackham | BBC One |