Susie Amy
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Susie Amy is an English
model
and actress most famous for her role as Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe
in the first two series of Footballers' Wives
.
and attended Sir William Perkins's School
in Chertsey
. Her father is Ron Amy OBE, former chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds
(NAPF), and her sister, Lynn, is a scientist
. An agent spotted her in 1999 when she was doing a play at the National Theatre
in London - After Juliet
by Sharman McDonald. Over the next two years she got parts in Sirens (2002), the sitcom Sam's Game
, The Swap and My Family.
Amy's first big break came in 2001, at the age of 20, when she was chosen to play 'Chardonnay Lane' in ITV drama Footballers' Wives
(2002), which became one of the most talked about shows on TV. She had five auditions for the part; the producers originally wanted a blonde actress but changed their minds after meeting Susie. In 2002, she was voted #74 in FHM
's 100 Sexiest Girls of 2002 poll and #63 in 2003, UK edition, after appearing on the front cover in February 2003.
Having filmed a second series of Footballers Wives, she was chosen for the lead role of Valentine D'Artagnan in the Hallmark Production La Femme Musketeer
(2004), starring alongside Michael York
, Gérard Depardieu
and Nastassja Kinski
. For the role she had to train in martial arts
, fencing
and horse riding, which she is said to have loved.
She played Beatrice Hastings - one of Andy Garcia's love interests- in the 2003 film 'Modigliani'. And starred in the film 'House of Nine' with Dennis Hopper and Kelly Brook in 2004.
In 2005, she played the lead role of Susy Henderson, in the Bill Kenwright
produced play, Wait Until Dark
. The character of Susy, who is blind, is commonly thought of as being the most exhausting role in theatre.
In 2006 she played John Thompson's wife Tessa in the BBC's New Street Law. And in November and December 2007 she appeared in Coronation Street
, as the ex-wife of Tony Gordon
(played by Gray O'Brien
). Early in 2008 she parodied herself as the actress "Suzie Amy" in the TV comedy-drama Moving Wallpaper
, and played Angela Cole in Wallpaper's sister show, the soap opera Echo Beach
. She also was a judge with Dancing On Ice: The Live Tour at the Sheffield, Hallam FM Arena. Amy was reported in 2008 to be working in pre-production of Cowboys for Christ, Robin Hardy
's reimagining of his 1973 The Wicker Man.
In 2010 she featured in the outdoor series 71 Degrees North
, a challenge show set in
Norway
.
Susie played Donna Jagger in the 2010 British Gangster movie Bonded by blood
On December 22, 2010 she appeared in a Celebrity Come Dine with me Christmas Special. She competed on the Channel 4 programme with three other celebrities: actor and musician Goldie
, singer Tony Christie
, and former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis
for a prize of £1,000, which went to charity. Amy came joint second with Christie, behind winner Ellis.
She started a beauty blog www.blusherandblogging.com in September 2011
Susie has been dating international rugby player Rob Kearney since late 2009. He plays full-back both for Ireland and his home club Leinster.
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...
model
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
and actress most famous for her role as Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe
Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe
Carol Susan 'Chardonnay' Pascoe was a fictional character on the ITV1 television series Footballers' Wives, loosely based on glamour model Jordan and played by Susie Amy...
in the first two series of Footballers' Wives
Footballers' Wives
Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006...
.
Biography
Amy was brought up in SurreySurrey
Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
and attended Sir William Perkins's School
Sir William Perkins's School
HeadmistressMrs Del CookeChairman of GovernorsDr Alun JonesFounded1725School typeIndependent schoolReligious affiliationSecularSpecialismNoneForms4 LocationChertsey, EnglandEnrollment575...
in Chertsey
Chertsey
Chertsey is a town in Surrey, England, on the River Thames and its tributary rivers such as the River Bourne. It can be accessed by road from junction 11 of the M25 London orbital motorway. It shares borders with Staines, Laleham, Shepperton, Addlestone, Woking, Thorpe and Egham...
. Her father is Ron Amy OBE, former chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds
National Association of Pension Funds
The National Association of Pension Funds is the leading body in the UK for providing representation and other services to those involved in designing, operating, advising and investing in all aspects of workplace pensions.-Function:...
(NAPF), and her sister, Lynn, is a scientist
Scientist
A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...
. An agent spotted her in 1999 when she was doing a play at the National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
in London - After Juliet
After Juliet
After Juliet is a play that was written by Scottish playwright Sharman Macdonald. It was commissioned for the 1999 NT Shell Connections programme, in which regional youth theatre groups compete to stage short plays by established playwrights....
by Sharman McDonald. Over the next two years she got parts in Sirens (2002), the sitcom Sam's Game
Sam's Game
Sam's Game is a celebrity poker program currently airing on Playboy TV. It features a lineup of comedians, Playmates, and professional Texas Hold 'Em players and is hosted by Simpsons co-creator, Sam Simon.-Format:...
, The Swap and My Family.
Amy's first big break came in 2001, at the age of 20, when she was chosen to play 'Chardonnay Lane' in ITV drama Footballers' Wives
Footballers' Wives
Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006...
(2002), which became one of the most talked about shows on TV. She had five auditions for the part; the producers originally wanted a blonde actress but changed their minds after meeting Susie. In 2002, she was voted #74 in FHM
FHM
FHM, originally published as For Him Magazine, is an international monthly men's lifestyle magazine.- History :The magazine began publication in 1985 in the United Kingdom under the name For Him and changed its title to FHM in 1994 when Emap Consumer Media bought the magazine, although the full For...
's 100 Sexiest Girls of 2002 poll and #63 in 2003, UK edition, after appearing on the front cover in February 2003.
Having filmed a second series of Footballers Wives, she was chosen for the lead role of Valentine D'Artagnan in the Hallmark Production La Femme Musketeer
La Femme Musketeer
La Femme Musketeer is a made for television movie produced by Hallmark Entertainment and Larry Levinson Productions, filmed on Draguć in Croatia. It originally premiered on June 20, 2004 on Hallmark Channel.-Plot summary:...
(2004), starring alongside Michael York
Michael York (actor)
Michael York, OBE is an English actor.-Early life:York was born in Fulmer, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of Florence Edith May , a musician; and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores...
, Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...
and Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Kinski is a German-born American-based actress who has appeared in more than 60 films. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of the title character in Tess and her roles in two erotic films , as well as parts in Wim Wenders' films The Wrong Move; Paris,...
. For the role she had to train in martial arts
Martial arts
Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....
, fencing
Fencing
Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...
and horse riding, which she is said to have loved.
She played Beatrice Hastings - one of Andy Garcia's love interests- in the 2003 film 'Modigliani'. And starred in the film 'House of Nine' with Dennis Hopper and Kelly Brook in 2004.
In 2005, she played the lead role of Susy Henderson, in the Bill Kenwright
Bill Kenwright
Bill Kenwright CBE is a leading West End theatre producer and film producer.He is also the Chairman of Everton Football Club, an English professional football club from the city of Liverpool....
produced play, Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark
Wait Until Dark is a play by Frederick Knott.-Synopsis:Susy Hendrix is a blind Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three con-men searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband Sam innocently transported from Canada as a favor to a woman who has since been murdered...
. The character of Susy, who is blind, is commonly thought of as being the most exhausting role in theatre.
In 2006 she played John Thompson's wife Tessa in the BBC's New Street Law. And in November and December 2007 she appeared in Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
, as the ex-wife of Tony Gordon
Tony Gordon
Anthony "Tony" Gordon was a fictional character in the itv soap opera Coronation Street, portrayed by actor Gray O'Brien. The character first appeared on screen on 16 September 2007 and making his final appearance on 9 June 2010 after deciding to sacrifice himself in the Underworld fire. He is a...
(played by Gray O'Brien
Gray O'Brien
Gray O'Brien is a Scottish television and film actor, best known for his portrayal of the villainous Weatherfield businessman Tony Gordon in the popular British soap opera Coronation Street from 2007 to 2010, and as Dr Richard McCaig on Casualty from 1996 to 1998.O'Brien was born in Stewarton,...
). Early in 2008 she parodied herself as the actress "Suzie Amy" in the TV comedy-drama Moving Wallpaper
Moving Wallpaper
Moving Wallpaper was a British satirical comedy-drama television series set in a TV production unit. It ran on ITV for two series in 2008–2009. The subject of the first series was the production of a soap called Echo Beach, each episode of which aired directly after the Moving Wallpaper episode...
, and played Angela Cole in Wallpaper's sister show, the soap opera Echo Beach
Echo Beach (soap)
Echo Beach was a short-lived British teen-drama series that aired on ITV in 2008. Set in the fictional Cornish coastal town of Polnarren, it ran for twelve weekly episodes from 10 January to 21 March 2008...
. She also was a judge with Dancing On Ice: The Live Tour at the Sheffield, Hallam FM Arena. Amy was reported in 2008 to be working in pre-production of Cowboys for Christ, Robin Hardy
Robin Hardy (film director)
Robin Hardy is an English author and film director. His most famous directorial work was The Wicker Man, and his latest project is a film adaptation of his book Cowboys for Christ, which has been retitled as, The Wicker Tree...
's reimagining of his 1973 The Wicker Man.
In 2010 she featured in the outdoor series 71 Degrees North
71 Degrees North
71 Degrees North is a TV series on ITV which began broadcasting on 11 September 2010. 10 celebrities must battle it out to see who will make it to the 71st parallel north, with challenges along the way. Mazda formerly sponsored the show, Continental tires are the current sponsors...
, a challenge show set in
Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
.
Susie played Donna Jagger in the 2010 British Gangster movie Bonded by blood
Bonded by Blood
For other uses of the phrase, see Bonded by Blood Bonded by Blood is the debut album by the San Francisco thrash metal band Exodus. Although the album was completed in the summer of 1984, it was not released until 1985 due to issues with Exodus and its record label...
On December 22, 2010 she appeared in a Celebrity Come Dine with me Christmas Special. She competed on the Channel 4 programme with three other celebrities: actor and musician Goldie
Goldie
Clifford Joseph Price, better known as Goldie is an English electronic music artist, disc jockey, visual artist and actor. He is well known for his innovations in the jungle and drum and bass music genres, having previously gained exposure for his work as a graffiti artist...
, singer Tony Christie
Tony Christie
Tony Christie is an English musician, singer and actor. He is best known for his track, "Is This The Way To Amarillo", a double UK chart success.-Career:Tony Christie has sold over 10 million albums Worldwide...
, and former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis
Janet Ellis
Janet Ellis is a British television presenter and actress, who appeared on BBC children's television in the 1980s, including a four year period as a presenter on Blue Peter, a role she won after hosting the award-winning children's programme Jigsaw.- Early life :Ellis's father was a soldier,...
for a prize of £1,000, which went to charity. Amy came joint second with Christie, behind winner Ellis.
She started a beauty blog www.blusherandblogging.com in September 2011
Susie has been dating international rugby player Rob Kearney since late 2009. He plays full-back both for Ireland and his home club Leinster.