Amanda Ryan is a British actress who trained at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art is a drama school located in London, United Kingdom. It is generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world, and is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom, having been founded in 1904.RADA is an affiliate school of the...

. She is best known for her role on TV series Shameless

Shameless

Shameless is a British television drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the first seven-episode series aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 10pm from 13 January 2004...

as Sgt. Carrie Rogers and her appearance in the music video for "Walk Away

Walk Away (Funeral for a Friend song)

"Walk Away" is the second single and ninth track from the Funeral for a Friend album Tales Don't Tell Themselves, and reached number 40 in the UK Charts.-Music video:...

" by Funeral for a Friend

Funeral for a Friend

Funeral for a Friend are a Welsh post-hardcore band, from Bridgend. Formed 2001, they have released five studio albums, seven EPs, sixteen singles, one DVD, and one compilation album.-Formation and Early Years:...

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Career

Ryan's most internationally recognized role was when she played Lettice Howard, the fictional lover of The Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, KG, Earl Marshal was an English nobleman.Norfolk was the son of the poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. He was taught as a child by John Foxe, the Protestant martyrologist, who remained a lifelong recipient of Norfolk's patronage...

 in the Academy Award winning 1998 film Elizabeth

Elizabeth (film)

Elizabeth is a 1998 biographical film written by Michael Hirst, directed by Shekhar Kapur, and starring Cate Blanchett in the title role of Queen Elizabeth I of England, alongside Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Sir John Gielgud, Fanny Ardant and Richard Attenborough...

starring Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett

Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress. She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic film Elizabeth, for which she won British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Golden Globe Awards, and earned her first Academy Award...

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The year prior, Ryan played Joanna in the 1997 film Metroland

Metroland (1997 film)

Metroland is a 1997 British film starring Christian Bale and Emily Watson. It was directed by Philip Saville and written by Adrian Hodges, based on the 1980 novel by Julian Barnes...

, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer, and winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending...

. She starred in the Inspector Morse

Inspector Morse (TV series)

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. Dexter makes a cameo appearance in all but three of the episodes....

episode "The Daughters of Cain

The Daughters of Cain (TV)

"The Daughters of Cain" is an episode of the British television detective mystery show Inspector Morse dramatized on ITV. It was first broadcast in November 1996.-Set-up:...

" as Kay Brooks. She has appeared in productions such as the BBC2 series Attachments

Attachments (TV series)

Attachments is a BBC TV Series that ran for two seasons from 2000 to 2002, a total of 26 episodes. It focuses on a group of young professionals in London that work for an Internet startup company called "seethru" during the dot com boom...

, the film Britannic

Britannic (film)

Britannic is a romantic drama film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It stars Edward Atterton and Amanda Ryan as star-crossed lovers on the forgotten sister ship of the , the HMHS Britannic...

and the television adaptations of The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of an upper-middle-class British family, similar to Galsworthy's own...

and as Agnes Wickfield in the 1999 BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 adaptation of the Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...

 novel David Copperfield

David Copperfield (1999 film)

David Copperfield is a two part BBC television drama adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, adapted by Adrian Hodges. The first part was shown on Christmas Day and the second on Boxing Day in 1999...

, and more recently as Verity Wright in EastEnders

EastEnders

EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

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Ryan's stage career includes credits in British productions of Patrick Marber

Patrick Marber

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor and screenwriter.-Early life and education:...

's Closer

Closer (play)

Closer is the third play written by English playwright Patrick Marber. The play was premiered at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in London in 1997, and made its North American debut at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway on 25 January 1999....

, Simon Gray

Simon Gray

Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE , was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years...

's Otherwise Engaged

Otherwise Engaged

Otherwise Engaged is a bleakly comic play by English playwright Simon Gray. The play previewed at the Oxford Playhouse and the Richmond Theatre, and then opened at the Queen's Theatre in London on 10 July 1975, with Alan Bates as the star and Harold Pinter as director, produced by Michael Codron....

, Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...

's The Wood Demon and in 2008 the part of Cathy in an adaptation of Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847. It was her only novel and written between December 1845 and July 1846. It remained unpublished until July 1847 and was not printed until December after the success of her sister Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre...

by April De Angelis

April De Angelis

April De Angelis is a British dramatist of part Sicilian descent. She is a graduate of Sussex University who trained at East 15 Acting School....

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Filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	The Micronots!	Jasmine (navigator)	TV Series
1996	The Bill	Jodie	TV Series - Episode: Bits and Pieces
	Wycliffe	Jane Trethowan	TV Series - Episode: Last Judgement
	Jude	Gypsy Saleswoman	Movie
	Poldark	Cuby Trevanion	TV Movie
	Inspector Morse	Kay Brooks	TV Series - Episode: The Daughters of Cain
1997	The New Adventures of Robin Hood	Catherine	TV Series - Episode: The Birthday Trap
	The Hunger	Musidora	TV Series - Episode: The Swords
	Metroland	Joanna	Movie
	The Woodlanders	Sukey Damson	Movie
1998	The Man Who Held His Breath	Lulu	Short
	Elizabeth	Lettice Howard	Movie
	Supply & Demand	Natasha	TV Miniseries - Episodes: Blood Ties: Part 1; Blood Ties: Part 2
1999	Simon Magus	Sarah	Movie
	Kavanagh QC	Charlotte Sinclair	TV Series - Episode: Previous Convictions
	Mauvaise Passe	Ann	Movie
	David Copperfield	Agnes Wickfield	TV Movie
2000	Britannic	Vera Campbell	TV Movie
	Best	Mrs. Crevand	Movie
	Attachments	Sophie Moore	TV Series
2001	The Inspector Linley Mysteries	Deborah St. James	TV Series - Episode: A Great Deliverance
2002	The Forsyte Saga	Holly	TV Miniseries
	Whoosh	Josie	Short
	Dalziel and Pascoe	Kate Lowry	TV Series - Episode: The Unwanted
2003	Real Men	Greta Banham	TV Movie
	The Forsyte Saga: To Let	Holly Dartie née Forsyte	TV Miniseries
2004	Murphy's Law	Romy	TV Series - Episode: Ringers
	Stealing Lives	DV Karen Hearst	TV Movie
2005	Murder Investigation Team	Helen Cousins	TV Series - Episode: #2.2
	Christmas Merry	Julia	Short
	Red Mercury	Electra	Movie
2006	The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard	Ronnie Johnson	TV Series - Episode: #1.4
2007	Sparkle	Kate	Movie
	Eastenders	Verity	TV Series - Episodes: 28 May 2007, 4 May 2007, 1 May 2007
2007–2009	Shameless	Carrie Rogers	TV Series - 21 Episodes
2009	Midsomer Murders	Martha Filby	TV Series - Episode: The Creeper