Amanda Hale (born 2 October 1982) is a British 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 Oxford University to study English but changed her mind and decided to become an actress.

Career

Hale trained at the

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Sen ...

, 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 The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT) is a youth theatre and registered charity in London. Its aim is to develop and nurture young people through creative arts and theatrical productions. Founded in 1956 as the world's first youth th ...

. At drama school, she won the Audience Prize and Best Fight Award at the 2003

RADA The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Senat ...

Prize Fights. She was also nominated for two ''Evening Standard'' Theatre Awards (the Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer and

Best Actress Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress awar ...

) in November 2007 for her critically acclaimed performance as Laura Wingfield in

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' classic play ''

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'' at the

Apollo Theatre The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster, in central London.

in London. In September 2009, Hale made her

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debut in ''Our Class'', a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, and in October 2009, she appeared alongside

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and

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in the new three-part

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drama ''

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''. In April 2011, she appeared as Agnes Rackham in the BBC adaptation ''

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'' with co-star

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. The following year, she collaborated again with Garai in the short film ''Scrubber.'' In June 2013, she played

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, mother of Henry VII, in the BBC series '' The White Queen'', based on

Philippa Gregory Philippa Gregory (born 9 January 1954) is an English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987. The best known of her works is ''The Other Boleyn Girl'' (2001), which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Roman ...

's best-selling historical novel series ''

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''. In the same year, she starred as

Elinor Dashwood Elinor Dashwood is a fictional character and the protagonist of Jane Austen's 1811 novel ''Sense and Sensibility''. In this novel, Austen analyses the conflict between the opposing temperaments of sense (logic, propriety, and thoughtfulness, as ...

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adaptation of ''

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''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hale, Amanda Actresses from London British television actresses British stage actresses British radio actresses British film actresses Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art 1982 births Living people 21st-century British actresses British people of Irish descent National Youth Theatre members 21st-century English women 21st-century English people