Amy Manson
{{Short description|Scottish actress (born 1985)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Amy Manson
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1985|9|9|df=y}}
| birth_place = Aberdeenshire, Scotland
| alma_mater = Central School of Speech and Drama
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 2006–present
}}
Amy Manson (born 9 September 1985){{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/people/amy-manson/|title=Amy Manson|publisher=CBS Interactive|work=TV.com|access-date=18 February 2015|archive-date=17 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217025348/http://www.tv.com/people/amy-manson/|url-status=dead}} is a Scottish actress. She has portrayed Alice Guppy in Torchwood, Abby Evans in Casualty, Lizzie Siddal in Desperate Romantics, Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri in Being Human, Medea in Atlantis, and Merida in the fifth season of the ABC fairy tale drama series Once Upon a Time.{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s181/once-upon-a-time/news/a657784/once-upon-a-time-merida-from-brave-will-join-the-show-in-season-5.html|title=Once Upon a Time: Merida from Brave will join the show in season 5|work=Digital Spy|date=11 July 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.inquisitr.com/2244627/once-upon-a-time-introduces-merida-from-brave-and-the-dark-swan-at-comic-con-video/|title='Once Upon A Time' Introduces Merida From 'Brave' And The Dark Swan At Comic-Con [Video]|work=The Inquisitr News|date=11 July 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/merida-brave-will-be-next-season-once-upon-time-222146|title=Merida from Brave will be on the next season of Once Upon A Time|work=avclub.com|date=12 July 2015}}
Background
Born and brought up in Aberdeenshire, Scotland,{{cite news |title=Theatrical Six appeal
|url=http://living.scotsman.com/performing-arts/Theatrical-Six-appeal.3760733.jp |author=Ramaswamy, Chitra |newspaper=The Scotsman |date=10 February 2008 |access-date=6 July 2009}} Manson has one sister, Ailsa Manson and one brother, James Manson, born in Sept Manson of Clan Gunn.{{cite news |title=I'd never been to the Citz...now I'm star of the show|url=http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/features/display.var.2141936.0.id_never_been_to_the_citz_now_im_star_of_the_show.php |author=Beacom, Brian |newspaper=Evening Times |date=24 March 2008 |access-date=6 July 2009}}{{dead link|date=December 2012}} She attended Stage Coach, a Saturday drama school, before leaving home for London at the age of seventeen. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, leaving early to film Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud in Romania. She lives in North London.
Career
Manson made her film debut in Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud, and has also appeared in the horror film Blood Monkey and the short film Smile Emily.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/content/default.asp?page=s346_8|title=Amy Manson|work=nationaltheatrescotland.com|access-date=6 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714160241/http://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/content/default.asp?page=s346_8|archive-date=14 July 2011|url-status=dead}}
Manson has lent her voice to the radio dramas Lost in Plain Sight, The Summer Walking and The Dead Hour.{{cite news |title=Afternoon play from Finlay |url=http://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/features/Afternoon-play-from-Finlay.5540828.jp |newspaper=Stornoway Gazette |date=10 August 2009 |access-date=11 August 2009 |archive-date=17 August 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817212658/http://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/features/Afternoon-play-from-Finlay.5540828.jp |url-status=dead}}
On television, she played Alice Guppy in two episodes of Torchwood, and appeared as Abby Evans in nine episodes of Casualty. She has guest-starred in episodes of Doctors, The Bill and My Family.
Manson played Lizzie Siddal, muse, wife and lover of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in the BBC Two period drama Desperate Romantics.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/06_june/25/romantics.shtml "Desperate Romantics" press pack: Introduction] BBC Press Office. 25 June 2009. She appeared as the vampire Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri in series two of Being Human, alongside Desperate Romantics co-star Aidan Turner.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2010/wk2/unplaced.shtml#unplaced_beinghuman BBC - Press Office - Network TV Programme Information BBC Week 2 2010] Retrieved 22 December 2009.{{cite news |title=Rising star Amy Manson on her bloody good horror roles|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-interviews/2010/01/17/exclusive-stunning-scots-actress-amy-manson-on-her-bloody-good-horror-roles-86908-21974195/ |author=Hendry, Steve |newspaper=Daily Record |date=17 January 2010 |access-date=23 February 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100120060735/http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-interviews/2010/01/17/exclusive-stunning-scots-actress-amy-manson-on-her-bloody-good-horror-roles-86908-21974195/| archive-date= 20 January 2010 |url-status=live}}
Manson played Ginger Corrigan in the 2010 adaptation of Agatha Christie's Marple: The Pale Horse,[http://www.itv.com/presscentre/pressreleases/programmepressreleases/marplethepalehorse/default.html Press releases | Programme press releases | Marple The Pale Horse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225131109/http://www.itv.com/presscentre/pressreleases/programmepressreleases/marplethepalehorse/default.html |date=25 February 2010}} ITV Press Centre. Retrieved 23 February 2010. and also played Fleur Morgan in Outcasts,[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/05_may/13/outcasts.shtml BBC - Press Office - Meet the Outcasts in a major new BBC One drama series] Retrieved 13 May 2010. an eight-part series by Kudos for BBC One.
In 2011, Manson portrayed Leah in the third series of Misfits and Emma "Whirly" Tyson in the BBC drama Young James Herriot.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018tvsq/characters/whirly|title=BBC One - Young James Herriot - Emma 'Whirly' Tyson|work=BBC}}
She also appears in the fifth series of Irish drama Raw.[http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4285266&tpl=archnews&force=1 New Cast Members Begin Shooting ‘Raw’ Season Five For RTÉ] The Irish Film & Television Network. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
In 2024, she appeared as Rhona Moncrieffe in the BBC drama, Rebus, an adaptation of the Inspector Rebus series by Ian Rankin.{{cite web |title=Rebus cast {{!}} Who stars alongside Richard Rankin in the BBC reboot? |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/rebus-cast-bbc/ |website=Radio Times |access-date=19 May 2024}}
Awards
Manson won Best Performance (Female) at the 2008 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland, for playing Stepdaughter in the National Theatre of Scotland production of Six Characters in Search of an Author.[http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/21006/dundee-reps-peer-gynt-sweeps-critics-awards The Stage / News / Dundee Rep's Peer Gynt sweeps Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland]
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Film ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| rowspan="2"|2007
| Jodie Hatfield | |
| Blood Monkey
| Amy Armstrong | |
| rowspan="2"|2013
| Darsie | |
| Harrigan
| Vickey Frizell | |
| rowspan="3"|2015
| Two Down | Air Hostess Call Girl | |
| The Chameleon
| Pamela | |
| Estranged
| January | |
| rowspan="2"|2017
| Woman in Club | |
| Edie
| Fiona | |
| rowspan="3"|2019
| Run | Katie | |
| Beats
| Cat | |
| Doom: Annihilation
| Lt. Joan Dark | credited as Amy Mason |
| rowspan="2"|2021
| Spencer | |
| She Will
|Lois | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Show ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2006
| The Bill | Martine McKenzie | Episode: "405" |
| rowspan="2"|2007
| Casting P.A. | Episode: "Breaking Up Ain't Hard To Do" |
| Nearly Famous
| Melanie | Episode: "1.5" |
| rowspan="2"|2008
| Doctors | Kelly Moore | Episode: "Jack the Lad" |
| Torchwood
| Episodes: "Fragments", "Exit Wounds" |
| 2008–2009
| Casualty | Abby Evans | 9 episodes |
| 2009
| Period drama |
| rowspan="2"|2010
| Daisy | 6 episodes |
| Agatha Christie's Marple: The Pale Horse
| Ginger Corrigan | Television film |
| rowspan="4"|2011
| Outcasts | Fleur Morgan | 8 episodes |
| Misfits
| Leah | Episode: "3.6" |
| Young James Herriot
| Emma "Whirly" Tyson | 3 episodes |
| The Field of Blood
| Karen Burnett | |
| 2014–2015
| Atlantis | Medea | |
| 2015–2016
| Merida | Recurring role, 8 episodes |
| 2017
| 4 episodes |
| 2018
| Legacies | Dryad | 1 episode |
| rowspan="2"|2021–2023
| rowspan="2"|The Nevers | Sarah / Maladie | Main cast |
| Effie Boyle
| Episode: "Hanged" |
| rowspan="3"|2023
| Giselle | 2 episodes |
| The Chemistry of Death
| Ellen McLeod | 4 episodes |
| Bodies
| Charlotte Hillinghead | 6 episodes |
| 2024
| Rebus | |
Theatre
| class="wikitable" | |||||
| Year
! Film ! Role ! Company ! Director ! Notes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Six Characters in Search of an Author | Stepdaughter | Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and Citizens Theatre, Glasgow {{cite web|url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/19917/six-characters-in-search-of-an-author|title=Theatre, dance, opera and cabaret reviews - The Stage|work=The Stage}} | ||
| 2015 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Grusha | Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh | Mark Thomson | adaptation by Alistair Beaton |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2240061}}
- [http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/drama/tv-news/interviews/outcasts-amy-manson-i-love-being-fearless-fleur/11801 Outcasts' Amy Manson: I love being Fearless Fleur!]
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Category:Actresses from Aberdeenshire
Category:People educated at Westhill Academy
Category:Scottish television actresses
Category:Scottish film actresses
Category:Scottish stage actresses
Category:Scottish radio actresses
Category:Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama