Amanda Lawrence

Amanda Lawrence is a British actress born in Torbay in 1971. She trained in theater at Bretton Hall College and gained early experience at the Edinburgh Fringe before moving to London, where her stage work included The Firework-Maker's Daughter, Brief Encounter, and Playing the Victim. In 2009 she led a London staging of Jiggery Pokery. During the 2010s Lawrence worked in television, with roles in Dead Boss, Above Suspicion, Mr Selfridge, and Midsomer Murders, and appeared in films such as Suffragette (2015) and Womb (2010). In 2017 she was in a production of Angels in America at the National Theatre and then played Resistance commander Larma D'Acy in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), repeating the role in The Rise of Skywalker. She later appeared in Top Girls and in the television dramas Honour and White House Farm. Her performance as Matron Shipley in Malory Towers earned her the Outstanding Supporting Performer prize at the Children's and Family Emmy Awards.