Amanda Lawrence
CountryUnited Kingdom 
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BiographyAmanda Lawrence is a British actress.
Lawrence studied theatre at Bretton Hall College and worked early in her career in the Edinburgh Fringe. She then moved to London and appeared in theatrical productions such as Brief Encounter, Playing the Victim, and The Firework-Maker's Daughter. She led the stage production of Jiggery Pokery in London in 2009.
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, 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.
In 2020, she played Barbara Farrell in “The Fall of the House of St Gardner”, S8:E9 of Father Brown and in September 2020, she played DC Sarah Raymond in ITV's two-part television drama, Honour. She also appeared in White House Farm (2020) as Barbara Wilson. She joined the cast of children's historical drama series Malory Towers as Matron Shipley for the show's fifth season, and won the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer at the third annual ceremony.
Biography from the Wikipedia article Amanda Lawrence. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Lawrence studied theatre at Bretton Hall College and worked early in her career in the Edinburgh Fringe. She then moved to London and appeared in theatrical productions such as Brief Encounter, Playing the Victim, and The Firework-Maker's Daughter. She led the stage production of Jiggery Pokery in London in 2009.
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, 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.
In 2020, she played Barbara Farrell in “The Fall of the House of St Gardner”, S8:E9 of Father Brown and in September 2020, she played DC Sarah Raymond in ITV's two-part television drama, Honour. She also appeared in White House Farm (2020) as Barbara Wilson. She joined the cast of children's historical drama series Malory Towers as Matron Shipley for the show's fifth season, and won the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer at the third annual ceremony.
Biography from the Wikipedia article Amanda Lawrence. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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