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Amanda Hale
Amanda Hale (born 2 October 1982)[1] is an English actress.[2] Early lifeHale is one of four children born to Irish immigrant parents in northwest London.[citation needed] 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.[3] CareerHale trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2005[2] with a BA in Acting Degree (H Level)[4] and has performed on both stage and screen. Some of her earliest acting experience include a couple of plays at the National Youth Theatre.[2] At drama school, she won the Audience Prize and Best Fight Award at the 2003 RADA Prize Fights.[2] She was also nominated for two Evening Standard Theatre Awards (the Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer[5] and Best Actress[6]) in November 2007[7] for her critically acclaimed[8] performance as Laura Wingfield in Tennessee Williams' classic play The Glass Menagerie at the Apollo Theatre in London.[9] In September 2009, Hale made her Royal National Theatre debut in Our Class, a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek,[10] and in October 2009, she appeared alongside Robbie Coltrane and Sharon Small in the new three-part ITV1 drama Murderland.[11] 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.[12] 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.[13] Select credits
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