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Amanda trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and earned an Olivier Award nomination for her part in the award-winning Broadway musical 'Thoroughly Modern Millie'. UKP-Arts asked Amanda for any advice she would give to someone hoping for a career in the performing arts industry as well as looking at Amanda's career achievements to date. |
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Never stop learning
"You can expect challenges from the moment you start your training, and when you have finished, you will be presented with a whole host of new obstacles to overcome. You will need determination and enthusiasm, to be able to work well with your fellow actors and technical team, to be able to accept criticism and rejection and to have the ability to bounce back. Stamina is vital for a career in the performing arts. You'll need limitless energy… and then some more to spare! Good training is essential too, but even after training you never stop learning. Drama School was invaluable to me, not just for teaching me about theatre and theatre studies but also and just as importantly, preparing me for life outside."
'All About Millie'
Based on the 1967 Oscar winning film, 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' at Shaftesbury Theatre in London, takes the audience back to a Manhattan during the height of the Jazz Age of the Roaring 20's. Amanda plays Millie Dillmount, a young girl who travels from Kansas in search of a new life and a wealthy husband. Of course nothing goes to plan for Millie and as she checks in to the Hotel Priscilla and encounters eccentric proprietor Mrs Meers (played by Maureen Lipman) her riotous adventures in New York City begin.
Amanda's other theatre roles include 'The Sound of Music', 'Pygmalion', 'The Importance of Being Ernest' and 'Arsenic and Old Lace'.
On your TV
If you haven't had the chance to see Amanda at the theatre you will no doubt have watched one or more of the various shows she has appeared in on television. One of her first TV roles was a small part in the BBC soap Eastenders. She then went on to appear in three series' of 'The Grimleys', 'Kiss Me Kate', 'Happy Birthday Shakespeare', 'Hearts and Bones', 'The Hunt'and 'Mad About Alice' with Jamie Theakston. She was also reunited with Sarah Parish (a co-star from 'Hearts and Bones')in the hit series 'Cutting It', in which she plays the character of Mia Bevan. More recently, As well as appearing in the second series of 'Britain’s Got Talent' as a judge, Amanda has completed the 3rd series of the hugely successful 'Wild At Heart' in Africa.
At the cinema
Amanda has also starred in 3 films - 'Intimate Relations', 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' and 'Virtual Sexuality' directed by Nick Hurran who Amanda went on to work with in 'Happy Birthday Shakespeare'.
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