Amanda Hale

Hale is one of four children born to Irish immigrant parents in northwest London.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} Her cousin is scientist Martin Glennie. She had been due to go to University of Oxford to study English but changed her mind and decided to become an actress.{{cite web|url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/2011/04/im-still-at-the-very-beginning/|title='I'm still at the very beginning' – Features – The Stage|date=6 April 2011|access-date=24 July 2013|archive-date=19 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219091435/http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/2011/04/im-still-at-the-very-beginning/|url-status=live}}

Hale trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2005 with a BA in Acting Degree (H Level){{cite web|url=https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/amanda-hale/|title=RADA – Student & graduate profiles – Amanda Hale|publisher=RADA|access-date=21 February 2020|archive-date=21 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221063319/https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/amanda-hale/|url-status=live}} and has performed on both stage and screen. Some of her earliest acting experience include a couple of plays at the National Youth Theatre.

At drama school, she won the Audience Prize and Best Fight Award at the 2003 RADA Prize Fights. She was also nominated for two Evening Standard Theatre Awards (the Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding NewcomerSmith, Alistair, The Stage – [http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/18720 Evening Standard Theatre Awards pay tribute to former host Sherrin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612015620/http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/18720 |date=12 June 2011}} (31 October 2007) and Best ActressThis Is London – [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23418936-details/Evening+Standard+Theatre+Awards+2007:+the+longlist/article.do Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2007: the longlist] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618054921/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23418936-details/Evening+Standard+Theatre+Awards+2007:+the+longlist/article.do |date=18 June 2009}} (31 October 2007)) in November 2007PBS – [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/persuasion/characters.html Persuasion: Characters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220140922/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/persuasion/characters.html |date=20 December 2016}} for her critically acclaimedBroadway.com in London – [http://london.broadway.com/story/id/3005948 Were Critics Enchanted by Jessica Lange in the West End's Glass Menagerie?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003184853/https://www.theatre.com/ |date=3 October 2020}} (14 February 2007) performance as Laura Wingfield in Tennessee Williams' classic play The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Theatre in London.Loveridge, Lizzie, Curtain Up – [http://www.curtainup.com/glassmenagerielond07.html The Glass Menagerie] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608231023/http://www.curtainup.com/glassmenagerielond07.html |date=8 June 2008}} (2007)

In September 2009, Hale made her Royal National Theatre debut in Our Class, a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek,{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/51014/company-members/amanda-hale.html|title=National Theatre – Amanda Hale|access-date=18 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904225436/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/51014/company-members/amanda-hale.html|archive-date=4 September 2009|url-status=dead}} and in October 2009, she appeared alongside Robbie Coltrane and Sharon Small in the new three-part ITV1 drama Murderland.{{Cite web |url=http://www.itv.com/drama/copsandcrime/murderland/default.html |title=ITV1 – Murderland |access-date=18 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022073347/http://www.itv.com/drama/copsandcrime/murderland/default.html |archive-date=22 October 2009 |url-status=dead}} In April 2011, she appeared as Agnes Rackham in the BBC adaptation The Crimson Petal and the White with co-star Romola Garai. The following year, she collaborated again with Garai in the short film Scrubber.{{cite web|title=Short Stories |url=http://film.britishcouncil.org/our-projects/2013/short-stories |accessdate=19 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222145324/http://film.britishcouncil.org/our-projects/2013/short-stories |archivedate=22 December 2015}} In June 2013, she played Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, in the BBC series The White Queen, based on Philippa Gregory's best-selling historical novel series The Cousins' War. In the same year, she starred as Elinor Dashwood in Helen Edmundson's BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/32/r4-sense-sun|title=BBC – Sense And Sensibility – Media Centre|publisher=BBC|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-date=15 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115132654/https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/32/r4-sense-sun|url-status=live}}

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