Born Amanda Jacqueline Redman
12 August 1957 (age 59)
Brighton, Sussex, England
Occupation Actress
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Amanda Redman
Amanda Jacqueline Redman, MBE (born 12 August 1957 is an English actress, perhaps best known for her role as Sandra Pullman in the BBC One series New Tricks. She is a niece of actress Joyce Redman.
Redman was born in Brighton,. Her father, Ronald, was from Yorkshire and her mother, Joan, from Sussex.
Redman is badly scarred on her upper left arm as a result of an accident when she was 15 months old. She was scalded with a pan of boiling turkey-and-vegetable soup and suffered burns to 75% of her body. Her arm was the only part of her body permanently affected, but the trauma was so severe that she was pronounced clinically dead at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex.
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Redman trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
In 1984, she appeared as Marina in the BBC Shakespeare series production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre opposite Mike Gwilym.
In 1985, she played Janet in the Tour version of The Rocky Horror Show.
In 1986 she played Miss Fairfax (Gwendolen) as the leading actress in the BBC Drama of The Importance Of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde.
She played opposite Liv Ullmann in Richard’s Things (1981) and took over from Alfred Molina in the 1990s comedy drama El C.I.D., playing a new female lead in the series, and played Diana Dors in the 1999 TV film The Blonde Bombshell. Redman presented an MTV show on satellite TV in the 1990s. She co-starred in the first series of Dangerfield in 1995, and played a role in Taggart the same year. In 2000, Redman played Deedee Dove in the feature film Sexy Beast. From 2000 until 2003, Redman played Alison Braithwaite, a woman whose life is turned upside-down when she wins the lottery, in ITV’s At Home with the Braithwaites. Beginning in 2003, Redman took the role of Sandra Pullman in the BBC’s New Tricks.
In June 2006, Redman performed in Children’s Party at the Palace as Cruella DeVil for the Queen’s 80th birthday, and was the subject of one episode of the BBC documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, a programme that explored her family history.
In July 2013, she announced she would be leaving the BBC Series New Tricks.
Redman is the founder and principal of the Artists Theatre School.
Notable roles
Richard’s Things (1981) … Josie
Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984) …
Streets Apart (1988)
For Queen and Country (1989) … Stacey
The Secret House of Death (1996) … Susan Townsend
King Lear (1998) (TV) … Regan
Hope and Glory (1999) (TV series) … Debbie Bryan
The Blonde Bombshell (1999) … Diana Dors
Sexy Beast (2000) … Deedee Dove
At Home with the Braithwaites (2000–04) (TV series) … Alison Braithwaite
Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001) … Karine Bassett
New Tricks (2003 – 2013) (TV series) … Sandra Pullman
Little Dorrit (2008) (TV series) … Mrs. Merdle
Honest (2008) … Lindsay Carter
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