Amanda Hale

---

title: "Amanda Hale" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1982-births", "21st-century-english-actresses", "actresses-from-london", "english-film-actresses", "english-radio-actresses", "english-stage-actresses", "english-television-actresses", "english-people-of-irish-descent", "living-people", "alumni-of-the-royal-academy-of-dramatic-art", "national-youth-theatre-members"] description: "English actress (born 1982)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Hale" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary English actress (born 1982) ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox person"]

Field	Value
name	Amanda Hale
birth_date
birth_place	London, England
occupation	Actress
years_active	2005–present
::

| name = Amanda Hale | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birthname = | birth_date = | birth_place = London, England | othername = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 2005–present | spouse = | domesticpartner = | website = | awards = Amanda Hale (born 2 October 1982) is an English actress.

Early life

Hale is one of four children born to Irish immigrant parents in northwest London. 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.

Career

Hale trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2005 with a BA in Acting Degree (H Level) and has performed on both stage and screen. Some of her earliest acting experience include a couple of plays at the National Youth Theatre.

At drama school, she won the Audience Prize and Best Fight Award at the 2003 RADA Prize Fights. She was also nominated for two Evening Standard Theatre Awards (the Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer and Best Actress) in November 2007 for her critically acclaimed performance as Laura Wingfield in Tennessee Williams' classic play The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Theatre in London.

In September 2009, Hale made her Royal National Theatre debut in Our Class, a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, and in October 2009, she appeared alongside Robbie Coltrane and Sharon Small in the new three-part ITV1 drama Murderland. 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. 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.

Select credits

::data[format=table]

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 Tishra Kandia	Lucasfilm Ltd. and Bad Robot
2020	Death in Paradise	Vanessa McCormack	Red Planet Pictures; Episode: 9.1 "La Murder Le Diablé"
2021	A Discovery of Witches	Mary Sidney	Series 2, episodes 2 and 3
::

References

References

1. "20 Questions: Amanda Hale – 'I'd like to swap places with Beyonce'".
2. "Cache of Amanda Hale's profile". [[RADA]].
3. (6 April 2011). "'I'm still at the very beginning' – Features – The Stage".
4. "RADA – Student & graduate profiles – Amanda Hale". [[RADA]].
5. Smith, Alistair, ''[[The Stage]]'' – [http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/18720 Evening Standard Theatre Awards pay tribute to former host Sherrin] {{Webarchive. link. (12 June 2011 (31 October 2007))
6. [[London Evening Standard#Websites. This Is London]] – [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23418936-details/Evening+Standard+Theatre+Awards+2007:+the+longlist/article.do Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist] {{Webarchive. link. (18 June 2009 (31 October 2007))
7. [[PBS]] – [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/persuasion/characters.html ''Persuasion'': Characters] {{Webarchive. link. (20 December 2016)
8. Broadway.com in London – [http://london.broadway.com/story/id/3005948 Were Critics Enchanted by Jessica Lange in the West End's Glass Menagerie?] {{Webarchive. link. (3 October 2020 (14 February 2007))
9. Loveridge, Lizzie, [[Curtain Up]] – [http://www.curtainup.com/glassmenagerielond07.html The Glass Menagerie] {{Webarchive. link. (8 June 2008 (2007))
10. "National Theatre – Amanda Hale".
11. "ITV1 – ''Murderland''".
12. "Short Stories".
13. "BBC – Sense And Sensibility – Media Centre". BBC.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::