# Amy Manson

Amy Manson (born 9 September 1985) is a Scottish actress. She has portrayed Alice Guppy in Torchwood, Abby Evans in Casualty, Lizzie Siddal in Desperate Romantics, Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri in Being Human, Medea in Atlantis, and Merida in the fifth season of the ABC fairy tale drama series Once Upon a Time.

## Background

Born and brought up in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Manson has one sister, Ailsa Manson and one brother, James Manson, born in Sept Manson of Clan Gunn. She attended Stage Coach, a Saturday drama school, before leaving home for London at the age of seventeen. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, leaving early to film Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud in Romania. She lives in North London.

## Career

Manson made her film debut in Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud, and has also appeared in the horror film Blood Monkey and the short film Smile Emily.
Manson has lent her voice to the radio dramas Lost in Plain Sight, The Summer Walking and The Dead Hour.
On television, she played Alice Guppy in two episodes of Torchwood, and appeared as Abby Evans in nine episodes of Casualty. She has guest-starred in episodes of Doctors, The Bill and My Family.
Manson played Lizzie Siddal, muse, wife and lover of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in the BBC Two period drama Desperate Romantics. She appeared as the vampire Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri in series two of Being Human, alongside Desperate Romantics co-star Aidan Turner.
Manson played Ginger Corrigan in the 2010 adaptation of Agatha Christie's Marple: The Pale Horse, and also played Fleur Morgan in Outcasts, an eight-part series by Kudos for BBC One. In 2011, Manson portrayed Leah in the third series of Misfits and Emma "Whirly" Tyson in the BBC drama Young James Herriot.
She also appears in the fifth series of Irish drama Raw.
In 2024, she appeared as Rhona Moncrieffe in the BBC drama, Rebus, an adaptation of the Inspector Rebus series by Ian Rankin.

## Awards

Manson won Best Performance (Female) at the 2008 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland, for playing Stepdaughter in the National Theatre of Scotland production of Six Characters in Search of an Author.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 2007 | Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud | Jodie Hatfield | |
| 2007 | Blood Monkey | Amy Armstrong | |
| 2013 | Not Another Happy Ending | Darsie | |
| 2013 | Harrigan | Vickey Frizell | |
| 2015 | Two Down | Air Hostess Call Girl | |
| 2015 | The Chameleon | Pamela | |
| 2015 | Estranged | January | |
| 2017 | T2 Trainspotting | Woman in Club | |
| 2017 | Edie | Fiona | |
| 2019 | Run | Katie | |
| 2019 | Beats | Cat | |
| 2019 | Doom: Annihilation | Lt. Joan Dark | credited as Amy Mason |
| 2021 | Spencer | Anne Boleyn | |
| 2021 | She Will | Lois | |

### Television

| Year | Show | Role | Notes |
| 2006 | The Bill | Martine McKenzie | Episode: "405" |
| 2007 | My Family | Casting P.A. | Episode: "Breaking Up Ain't Hard To Do" |
| 2007 | Nearly Famous | Melanie | Episode: "1.5" |
| 2008 | Doctors | Kelly Moore | Episode: "Jack the Lad" |
| 2008 | Torchwood | Alice Guppy | Episodes: "Fragments", "Exit Wounds" |
| 2008–2009 | Casualty | Abby Evans | 9 episodes |
| 2009 | Desperate Romantics | Lizzie Siddal | Period drama |
| 2010 | Being Human | Daisy | 6 episodes |
| 2010 | Agatha Christie's Marple: The Pale Horse | Ginger Corrigan | Television film |
| 2011 | Outcasts | Fleur Morgan | 8 episodes |
| 2011 | Misfits | Leah | Episode: "3.6" |
| 2011 | Young James Herriot | Emma "Whirly" Tyson | 3 episodes |
| 2011 | The Field of Blood | Karen Burnett | |
| 2014–2015 | Atlantis | Medea | |
| 2015–2016 | Once Upon a Time | Merida | Recurring role, 8 episodes |
| 2017 | The White Princess | Cathy Gordon | 4 episodes |
| 2018 | Legacies | Dryad | 1 episode |
| 2021–2023 | The Nevers | Sarah / Maladie | Main cast |
| 2021–2023 | The Nevers | Effie Boyle | Episode: "Hanged" Credited as Margaret Tuttle |
| 2023 | The Diplomat | Giselle | 2 episodes |
| 2023 | The Chemistry of Death | Ellen McLeod | 4 episodes |
| 2023 | Bodies | Charlotte Hillinghead | 6 episodes |
| 2024 | Rebus | Rhona Moncrieffe | |

## Theatre

| Year | Film | Role | Company | Director | Notes |
| 2008 | Six Characters in Search of an Author | Stepdaughter | Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and Citizens Theatre, Glasgow | | |
| 2015 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Grusha | Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh | Mark Thomson | adaptation by Alistair Beaton |