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Amanda Lawrence

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Amanda Lawrence is a British stage, film, and television actress.

Lawrence studied theatre at Bretton Hall College and worked early in her career in the Edinburgh Fringe.[1] She then moved to London and appeared in theatrical productions such as Brief Encounter, Playing the Victim, and The Firework-Maker's Daughter.[1] She led the stage production of Jiggery Pokery in London in 2009.[2][3][4]

In the 2010s she appeared in several television shows, including Above Suspicion, Dead Boss, Midsomer Murders 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,[5] and later that year took the role of Larma D'Acy in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In 2019 she appeared in a London production of Top Girls.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Interview, What's On Stage, October 27, 2009.
  2. ^ Review, The Guardian, December 4, 2009
  3. ^ Review, Liverpool Echo, November 12, 2009
  4. ^ Review, The Times, November 4, 2009
  5. ^ Interview, Theater Mania
  6. ^ Interview, The Stage, March 29, 2019.