Amanda Hale

Amanda Hale is an English actress who chose drama school over an English degree at Oxford. Born in London to an Irish family, she gained early stage experience with the National Youth Theatre and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, finishing there in 2005; as a student she collected two honors at the 2003 RADA Prize Fights, the Audience Prize and the Best Fight Award. Playing Laura Wingfield at the Apollo Theatre in London, in The Glass Menagerie, earned her two Evening Standard Theatre Awards nominations in November 2007. Her Royal National Theatre debut came in 2009 with Our Class, a play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, and that year she also appeared in the ITV1 drama Murderland. She later played Agnes Rackham in the BBC's The Crimson Petal and the White and Margaret Beaufort in The White Queen, and she was Elinor Dashwood in a Radio 4 version of Sense and Sensibility.