Welcome to Amanda
On graduating from Mountview Theatre School in July 1992, Amanda immediately landed her first role in Granada's In Suspicious Circumstances with Edward Woodward. She has worked consistently ever since and is one of Britain’s best loved personalities.
Early film appearances include Intimate Relations and in her early theatre career she played Liesl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music and Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest. In 1997 Amanda appeared in the comedy series We Know Where You Live with Simon Pegg for Channel 5 TV. Early in 1998 she was a regular guest on Goodness Gracious Me, the BBC2 TV sketch show series. Early in 1998 she also presented reports for Wish You Were Here
(full ITV network).
Amanda became a household name when she played the part of Mel in three series of the hit comedy Kiss Me Kate - a co-production by BBC TV and Carlton TV – starring Caroline Quentin and in 1999 went on to star as 'Miss Titley' in all three series of ITV's popular comedy series The Grimleys which cemented her reputation as one of the nation’s favourite actresses.
In 2000 Amanda also starred in BBC1 TV's Happy Birthday Shakespeare, a romantic comedy and in alongside Damien Lewis in two series of Hearts and Bones from 2000-2001, a drama series for BBC1 TV – about a group of friends from Coventry who are trying to make a living for themselves in London.
A new drama The Hunt was screened on ITV in 2001 and a 90-minute single drama - Now You See Her - for Sky One was also shown.
In 2002 she co-starred with Harry Enfield in Celeb, a six part comedy series for the BBC.
In 2003 she starred in Mad About Alice, a BBC sitcom with before taking the title
role in the West End musical Thoroughly Modern Millie for which she received
outstanding reviews and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best
Actress in a Musical.
From 2002 until 2005 Amanda starred in three series of the prime-time BAFTA
winning and hugely popular show Cutting It, also for the BBC.
In 2004 she co-starred alongside Tom Courtney in Ready When You Are Mr McGill, Jack Rosenthal's classic comedy drama and as Lucy Eyelesbarrow in ITV's big Boxing Day special 'Marple' alongside Geraldine McEwan and John Hannah.
From 2006 until 2008 Amanda played the leading role of Sarah Trevanion in three hugely successful series of ITV1's 'Wild At Heart' with Stephen Tomkinson.
Amanda is one of the judges, alongside Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan, of ITV1s hit show 'Britain's Got Talent' - which regularly pulls in 12 million viewers. Auditions for the fourth series are currently taking place.
Her presenting credits include 'When Britain First Had Talent', 'Really Wild At Heart', 'Greasemania', the 'National Music Awards' for ITV1, 'Celebrating the Carpenters' (alongside Ronan Keating) ITV1, 'A Night of Heroes' (alongside Phillip Schofield) ITV1 and she is UK Correspondent for 'The Early Show' on CBS in America.
2009 has been a busy year for Amanda so far. Alongside Britain’s Got Talent she was invited to New York this June to co-anchor the CBS news programme ‘The Early Show’ which has led to her being offered a position as UK correspondent for the network.
Amanda also played the lead in ‘Big Top’, a new comedy sitcom for BBC1 which transmitted in December 2009.
Amanda appeared in a documentary ‘Out of My Depth’ for ITV which transmitted in December 2009 where she trained as a midwife and delivered a baby.
Amanda starred in a three part series for ITV1 'Amanda's Fantasy Lives' which aired at the end of January 2010 and sees Amanda uncover the hard work, day-to-day reality and grit that lies beneath the glamorous public face of a Nashville country singer, a Parisian showgirl and a Hollywood stuntwoman.
She presented The Children's Champions Awards 2010 alongside Chris Evans as well as a new show for ITV1 called The Door, which she presented alongside Chris Tarrant.
2010 sees Amanda return for a fourth series of Britain's Got Talent.