Amy Mathews was born on 29 March 1979 and is an Australian television, film and theatre actress.
10 Facts About Amy Mathews
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Amy Mathews is best known for her role as Rachel Armstrong in Australian soap opera Home and Away.
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Amy Mathews was offered a scholarship at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, which she completed.
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Amy Mathews then enrolled in and completed a full time acting course at Actors Centre Australia in Sydney, where she met fellow Home and Away actor Jon Sivewright, who plays Tony Holden, her husband on the show.
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Amy Mathews performed as part of the "Actors at Work" program, touring high schools in Australia and Singapore.
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Amy Mathews made her on-screen acting debut in 2001, when she had a guest appearance in the short-lived television series Head Start.
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Amy Mathews then played the role of doctor and psychiatrist Rachel Armstrong on long-running soap opera Home and Away, from the first episode of the 2006 season until 2010 when she departed the show to pursue new projects.
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Amy Mathews appeared in Richard III and The Anzac Project for the Ensemble Theatre.
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Amy Mathews performed in Coma Land, Toast, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Water for Black Swan Theatre Company winning a Blue Room Award for Toast and a Performing Arts WA Award for Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
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Amy Mathews has an interest in writing and directing, runs her own blog and studies surface design.