Amanda Hale

Amanda Hale
Born	October 2, 1980 London, England, UK
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2005–present
Height	173 cm (5 ft 8 in)

Amanda Hale (born 2 October^[1] 1980) is a British actress.^[2] She won positive reviews for her performance in The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Shaftesbury in the West End.^[3]

Early life

Hale is one of four children born to Irish immigrant parents in northwest London. Her cousin is notable scientist Martin Glennie. She had been due to go to Oxford University to read English, but soon changed her mind and decided to become an actress.^[4]

Career

Hale trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2005,^[5] 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.^[6] She was also nominated for two Evening Standard Awards (the Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer^[7] and Best Actress^[8]) in November 2007^[9] for her critically acclaimed^[10] performance as Laura Wingfield in Tennessee Williams' classic play The Glass Menagerie, at the Apollo Theatre in London.^[11]

In September 2009 Hale made her Royal National Theatre debut in Our Class, a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek^[12] and in October 2009 she appeared alongside Robbie Coltrane and Sharon Small in the new three-part ITV1 drama Murderland.^[13] In April 2011 she appeared as Agnes Rackham in the BBC adaptation The Crimson Petal and the White. In June 2013, she played Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, in the BBC series The White Queen, based on Philippa Gregory's bestselling historical novel series The Cousins' War.

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		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	Carol	ITV1
2010	Spooks	Meg Kirby	BBC One
	The Crimson Petal and the White	Agnes Rackham	BBC One
2011	Rev	Abi Johnston	Series 2 Episode #2
2012	Scrubber	Jenny	short
2012-3	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
2014	Uncle Vanya	Sonya	St. James Theatre (October–November)
2015	Catastrophe	Catherine	Channel 4

References

1. "20 Questions: Amanda Hale - 'I'd like to swap places with Beyonce'".
2. "Cache of Amanda Hale's profile from the RADA website".
3. Shenton, Mark, BBC - First night: The Glass Menagerie (15 February 2007)
4. http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/2011/04/im-still-at-the-very-beginning/
5. Cache of Amanda Hale's profile from the RADA website
6. Cache of Amanda Hale's profile from the RADA website Amanda Hale
7. Smith, Alistair, The Stage - Evening Standard Theatre Awards pay tribute to former host Sherrin (31 October 2007)
8. This Is London - Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist (31 October 2007)
9. PBS - Persuasion: Characters
10. Broadway.com In London - Were Critics Enchanted by Jessica Lange in the West End's Glass Menagerie? (14 February 2007)
11. Loveridge, Lizzie, Curtain Up - The Glass Menagerie (2007)
12. National Theatre - Amanda Hale
13. ITV1 - Murderland

External links

• Amanda Hale at the Internet Movie Database