Amanda Boxer
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Amanda Boxer is an English
actress who is best known for her television
work and her performance in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
at the Almeida Theatre
and The Painter
by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
at the Arcola Theatre
.
Her credits include: Sense and Sensibility
, The Cleopatras
, The Gentle Touch
, Miss Marple
, Between The Lines, Trial & Retribution
and Casualty
. She also played Amanda Trippley in both series of the BBC sitcom Chalk
.
Amanda also had a non-speaking role as Mrs Ryan in Saving Private Ryan
and played the mother of Matt Smith in the 2009 short film Together
.
Amanda is the daughter of Emily Hahn
, famed American author and socialite, best known for her writings on Shanghai in the 1930s. Her father is Charles Boxer noted scholar of Dutch and Portuguese colonial history.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actress who is best known for her television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
work and her performance in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a 2005 play by American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis first staged off-Broadway at The Public Theater on 2 March 2005 directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.-Plot summary:...
at the Almeida Theatre
Almeida Theatre
The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diverse range of drama and holds an annual summer festival of...
and The Painter
The Painter (play)
The Painter is a 2011 play by the British writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz on the life and relationships of JMW Turner. It premiered at the Arcola Theatre in January 2011 to mark its move to new premises...
by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Rebecca Lenkiewicz is a British playwright. She attended Plymouth High School for Girls, then progressed to a BA in Film and English at the University of Kent from 1985 to 1989 and then to a BA Acting Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1996 to 1999.-Career:As a writer, her plays...
at the Arcola Theatre
Arcola Theatre
Arcola Theatre is a studio theatre in Dalston, in the London Borough of Hackney. The theatre's ambition is to create and present high-quality theatre with a social and political relevance to its multicultural local community as well as a wider audience....
.
Her credits include: Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility (1981 TV serial)
Sense and Sensibility is a 1981 BBC television adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. The seven-part series was dramatized by Alexander Baron, and directed by Rodney Bennett....
, The Cleopatras
The Cleopatras
The Cleopatras is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1983.The eight-part serial was a historical drama set in ancient Egypt and charted the ruling dynasty of the Cleopatras...
, The Gentle Touch
The Gentle Touch
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of...
, Miss Marple
Miss Marple (TV series)
Miss Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It starred Joan Hickson in the title role, and aired from 1984 to 1992. All twelve original Miss Marple Christie novels have been dramatised. The screenplays were written by T. R...
, Between The Lines, Trial & Retribution
Trial & Retribution
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police proceduraltelevision drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The...
and Casualty
Casualty (TV series)
Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
. She also played Amanda Trippley in both series of the BBC sitcom Chalk
Chalk (TV series)
Chalk is a British television sitcom set in a comprehensive school named Galfast High. Two series, both written by Steven Moffat, were broadcast on BBC1 in 1997...
.
Amanda also had a non-speaking role as Mrs Ryan in Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 27 minutes, which depicts the Omaha Beach assault of June 6, 1944....
and played the mother of Matt Smith in the 2009 short film Together
Together (2009 film)
Together is a short film drama directed by Eicke Bettinga, starring Matt Smith. The film premiered in the International Critics' Week section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...
.
Amanda is the daughter of Emily Hahn
Emily Hahn
Emily Hahn was an American journalist and author. Called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of 52 books and more than 180 articles and stories...
, famed American author and socialite, best known for her writings on Shanghai in the 1930s. Her father is Charles Boxer noted scholar of Dutch and Portuguese colonial history.