Amelda Brown

Amelda Brown, born in the United Kingdom, is a British actress who has worked across theater, film and television, and she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1980. Fringe theater brought her notice, and she took leading parts in the first productions of Caryl Churchill's Fen (1983) and A Mouthful of Birds (1986), followed by Churchill revivals at the National Theatre, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire in 1996, and Heart's Desire at the Orange Tree Theatre in 2016. Her stage work also includes Lady Macbeth on the National Theatre's 1989 US tour of Macbeth and Gibb in the 2014 premiere of Tim Crouch's Adler and Gibb at the Royal Court. On television she played Brenda Parkin in Backup and Sue Barnes in Peak Practice. Her films include Hope and Glory (1987), Little Dorrit (1987), Sister My Sister (1994) and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), in which she was Mrs. Cole.