18 Facts About Amanda Muggleton

Amanda Lillian Muggleton was born on 12 October 1951 and is an English Australian theatre, television and film actress.

Amanda Muggleton is best known for her supporting television role in soap opera Prisoner as Chrissie Latham, with appearances between 1979 and 1983.

Amanda Lillian Muggleton was born on 12 October 1951 in Stepney, London, England, and emigrated to Australia in 1974.

Amanda Muggleton attended Sydenham School and left just before taking A-levels to go to drama school.

Amanda Muggleton trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Dance in London.

Amanda Muggleton played the lead role of Connie Ryan in short lives soap opera Richmond Hill, and has had guest roles in television series including A Country Practice, Cop Shop, HeadLand, City Homicide as well as British series Hollyoaks and the telemovie Sara Dane.

In March 2012, Amanda Muggleton went to Queensland for a role in Fatal Honeymoon, a made-for-television film based on the death of Alabama woman Tina Watson on her Great Barrier Reef diving trip in 2003, shot for the American cable channel Lifetime.

In 2016, Amanda Muggleton featured in the second episode of Channel 7's The Secret Daughter, followed by a brief appearance in the UK Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as Dr Barton, which she filmed in October whilst she was in London performing The Book Club at King's Head Theatre.

In June 2019, it was announced that Amanda Muggleton would begin appearing in the Seven Network soap opera Home and Away as recurring character Wendy Shaw, the mother of Ryan 'Robbo' Shaw.

Amanda Muggleton made her first appearance on 27 June 2019 and her final appearance on 30 July 2020.

Amanda Muggleton has appeared with all the state and commercial theatre companies.

Amanda Muggleton has won several very significant awards, for Shirley Valentine and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and for Miss Hannigan in Annie.

In 2003, Amanda Muggleton completed a highly successful national tour of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, playing the White Witch, with Dennis Olsen as The Professor.

In 2009, Amanda Muggleton appeared in the thirtieth anniversary of The Man From Mukinupin for Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney and in the roles of both Louis and Ethel Reid in The Ruby Sunrise for Ensemble Theatre, Sydney.

In 2015, Amanda Muggleton performed in Boston Marriage at QPAC in February and March and won the 2015 Norman Kessell Memorial Award for Best Actor for her role in The Book Club at the Glug Awards in Sydney.

Amanda Muggleton returned to the stage in 2016 to play Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray in Brisbane and Newcastle just before The Book Club returned to Melbourne's Southbank Theatre in July.

In 2017, Amanda Muggleton played the role of Helena Rubinstein in Lip Service for Ensemble Theatre in Sydney, and reprised her award-winning role as Maria Callas in Master Class in Perth, which continued in Melbourne in January 2018.

Amanda Muggleton is a public speaker and can pilot single-engine planes.