16 Facts About Amanda Redman

Amanda Redman gained BAFTA TV Award nominations for At Home with the Braithwaites and Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This.

Amanda Redman's father, Ronald Jack Redman, was born in Camberwell, London to parents from the East End, and her mother, Joan Beryl Redman, was born in India to William Herrington, a British Indian Army soldier.

Amanda Redman had one brother, who died of pneumonia in 2008.

Amanda Redman is badly scarred on her left arm as a result of an accident when she was 18 months old.

Amanda Redman's arm was the only part of her body permanently affected, but the trauma was so severe that she was pronounced clinically dead at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex.

Amanda Redman was in the same class as Daniel Day-Lewis and Miranda Richardson.

Amanda Redman played Maxine in Oxbridge Blues, a British television mini-series, produced by the BBC and first shown in 1984 written by Frederick Raphael.

Amanda Redman presented an MTV show on satellite TV in the 1990s.

Amanda Redman co-starred in the first two series of Dangerfield in 1995, playing Joanna Stevens, and played a role in Taggart the same year.

From 2003 to 2013, Amanda Redman took the role of DSI Sandra Pullman in the BBC's New Tricks.

In 2015, Amanda Redman played the role of Jackie Rose in the three-part ITV drama The Trials of Jimmy Rose, starring alongside Ray Winstone.

Amanda Redman is the founder and principal of the Artists Theatre School.

Amanda Redman directs an annual show which is performed at The Questors Theatre in Ealing.

Amanda Redman married actor Robert Glenister in 1984; they had one child together, daughter Emily, before divorcing in 1992.

Amanda Redman is credited with encouraging her then-brother-in-law, Philip Glenister, to go to drama school and pursue acting; he has played DCI Gene Hunt in both Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.

Amanda Redman was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama and charity.