Amanda Ryan

Amanda Ryan is an English actress who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She became best known for playing Lettice Howard in the Academy Award winning drama Elizabeth (1998) and Vera Campbell in the television movie Britannic (2000), as well as Sergeant Carrie Rogers in the Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless. She played Joanna in Metroland, adapted from Julian Barnes's novel, and appeared in an Inspector Morse episode as Kay Brooks. Her television work also took in the BBC2 series Attachments, an adaptation of The Forsyte Saga, and the role of Agnes Wickfield in a 1999 BBC version of David Copperfield, while she played Verity Wright in EastEnders. On stage she appeared in British productions of Patrick Marber's Closer, Simon Gray's Otherwise Engaged and Chekhov's The Wood Demon, and in 2008 she played Cathy in an adaptation of Wuthering Heights.