# Amelia Bullmore

Amelia Mary Bullmore (born 31 January 1964) is an English actress, screenwriter and playwright. She is known for her roles in Coronation Street (1990–1992, 1995), I'm Alan Partridge (2002), Ashes to Ashes (2008–2009), Twenty Twelve (2011–2012) and Scott & Bailey (2011–2014). Bullmore began writing in 1994. Her writing credits include episodes of This Life, Attachments, Black Cab, and Scott & Bailey.

## Early life and education

Bullmore was born in Chelsea, London, to Jeremy Bullmore, an advertising executive, and Pamela Bullmore (née Green), a gardening writer. She has two older brothers, including [[[Edward Bullmore]].
She studied drama at Manchester University.

## Career
### Acting

Bullmore was part of a cabaret group named Red Stockings, along with Helen Edmundson. While performing at the Contact Theatre in Manchester, a casting director for Coronation Street saw her performance. Bullmore played Steph Barnes in Coronation Street, and was a regular on the show from February 1990 to September 1991. She made brief returns in April 1992 and September 1995. She worked and lived in Manchester for 10 years, moving to London in 1995.
Bullmore appeared in the first series of the BBC comedy series Big Train broadcast in 1998.
Bullmore appeared opposite Steve Coogan as Sonja, the Ukrainian girlfriend of Alan Partridge in series two of the BBC2 comedy series I'm Alan Partridge. She also appeared on BBC Radio 4's phone-in spoof Down the Line.
From 2011 to 2014, Bullmore co-starred in the crime drama Scott & Bailey. She also wrote seven episodes of the show.
In 2016, she starred in the second series of Happy Valley, playing jealous mistress Vicky Fleming.

### Writing

In 2005, Bullmore wrote her first play, Mammals, which was staged at Bush Theatre and went on to tour the UK regionally.
In 2013, Bullmore wrote a second play, Di and Viv and Rose, which was staged at Hampstead Theatre. The play eventually transferred to the West End in early 2015, where it ran at the Vaudeville Theatre before closing in March.

## Personal life

In 1993, Bullmore married Scottish actor Paul Higgins. They met in Manchester in 1992 while they were performing A View from the Bridge. The couple have two daughters.

## Awards

| Year | Award | Work | Result |
| 1997 | Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Original TV Drama Serial (shared) | This Life | Won |
| 2005 | Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (co-winner) | Mammals | Won |
| 2009 | Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance | The Norman Conquests | Won |
| 2012 | Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Television Drama Series (shared) | Scott & Bailey | Nominated |
| 2013 | Crime Thriller Awards Best Supporting Actress Dagger | Scott & Bailey | Won |
| 2018 | BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Supporting Actor/Actress | The Beard | Nominated |

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1997 | Mrs. Dalloway | Rezia Warren Smith | |
| 2002 | Bookcruncher | Bookshop Manageress | Short film |
| 2003 | Hello, Friend | Friend | Short film |
| 2005 | Festival | Micheline Menzies | |
| 2006 | The Truth | Candy's Mother | |
| 2009 | Endgame | Gill | |
| 2014 | What We Did on Our Holiday | Margaret McLeod | |
| 2018 | Take Rabbit | Rabbit | Short film |
| 2019 | Motto | Linda | Short film |
| 2022 | Beware of Trains | Voice | Short film |

### Television

Actor :
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1990–1992, 1995 | Coronation Street | Steph Barnes | 131 episodes |
| 1991 | Give Us a Clue | Herself - Contestant | 1 episode |
| 1993 | Comedy Playhouse | Beth | 1 episode: "Stuck on You" |
| 1993 | Cracker | Catriona Bilborough | 2 episodes: "One Day a Lemming Will Fly": Parts 1 & 2 |
| 1994 | Woman of the Wolf | Madame Plaisir | TV short film |
| 1994 | Faith | Ros | Mini-series; 4 episodes |
| 1996 | Frontiers | Caroline Poole | 6 episodes |
| 1997 | Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Karen Parmenter | 1 episode: "Woman of the Year" |
| 1997 | Insiders | Paula Green | 1 episode: "Guilty" |
| 1997 | Turning World | Social worker | 2 episodes: #1.1 and #1.3 |
| 1997 | The Bill | Tracy Cooper | 1 episode: "In the Dark" |
| 1997–2001 | Brass Eye | Various roles | 3 episodes: "Science", "Sex" and "Paedophilia" |
| 1998, 2002 | Big Train | Various roles | 7 episodes |
| 1999 | Tilly Trotter | Eileen Sopwith | Mini-series; 2 episodes |
| 1999 | The Comedy Trail: A Shaggy Dog Story | Horse Jockey | TV Special |
| 2000 | Jam | Various roles | Mini-series; 6 episodes |
| 2000 | Attachments | Lin | 1 episode: "Dot Bomb" |
| 2001 | Linda Green | Lucy Cooper | 1 episode: "Rest in Peace" |
| 2002 | The Gist | Freda Cooper | TV film |
| 2002 | I'm Alan Partridge | Sonja | 6 episodes |
| 2003 | Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge | Mary (voice) | TV film |
| 2003 | State of Play | Helen Preger | Mini-series; 6 episodes |
| 2003 | Coming Up | Psychiatrist | 1 episode: "The Baader Meinhoff Gang Show" |
| 2004 | I Am Not an Animal | Winona the Dog (voice) / Additional voices | 6 episodes |
| 2005–2006 | Donovan | Evie Strauss | 3 episodes |
| 2006 | Sorted | Claire Hill | 3 episodes |
| 2006–2007 | Suburban Shootout | Joyce Hazledine | 11 episodes |
| 2007 | Director's Debut | Tara Vaughan | 1 episode: "Baby Boom" |
| 2007 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Frances Cunningham | 2 episodes: "Project Aphrodite": Parts 1 & 2 |
| 2007 | The IT Crowd | Helen Buley | 1 episode: "Smoke and Mirrors" |
| 2008 | The Whistleblowers | Helen Millard | 1 episode: "No Child Left Behind" |
| 2008 | Mrs. In-Betweeny | Emma | TV film |
| 2008–2009 | Ashes to Ashes | Caroline Price | 9 episodes |
| 2009 | Cutting Edge | Herself - Narrator | 1 episode: "The Schoolboy Who Sailed the World" |
| 2010 | Bellamy's People | Various characters | 3 episodes |
| 2010 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Judith Butler | 1 episode: "Hallowe'en Party" |
| 2010 | Little Crackers | Helen | 1 episode: "Jo Brand's Little Cracker: Goodbye Fluff" |
| 2011 | Shameless | Mildred Fletcher | 3 episodes |
| 2011 | Lewis | Caroline Hope | 1 episode: "Wild Justice" |
| 2011–2012 | Twenty Twelve | Kay Hope | 13 episodes |
| 2011–2014 | Scott & Bailey | DCI Gill Murray | 30 episodes |
| 2012 | Sherlock | Dr Stapleton | 1 episode: "The Hounds of Baskerville" |
| 2013 | Common Ground | Becky | 1 episode: "Floyd" |
| 2013 | It's Kevin | Various roles | 4 episodes |
| 2015 | Jekyll and Hyde | Renata Jezequiel | Mini-series; 3 episodes |
| 2016 | Happy Valley | Vicky Fleming | 3 episodes |
| 2016 | Power Monkeys | Lauren | Mini-series; 6 episodes |
| 2016 | The Crown | Kathleen Sutherland | 1 episode: "Assassins" |
| 2018 | Deep State | Olivia Clarke | 4 episodes |
| 2019, 2022 | Gentleman Jack | Eliza Priestley | 10 episodes |
| 2019–2024 | Vienna Blood | Rachel Liebermann | 11 episodes |
| 2021–2022 | The Larkins | Miss Edith Pilchester | 13 episodes |
| 2022 | I Hate You | Naomi | Mini-series, 1 episode: "Jazz" |
| 2023 | The Buccaneers | The Dowager Duchess of Tintagel | Main role; 6 episodes |
| 2024 | The Jetty | Sylvia | 4 episodes |
| 2025 | Riot Women | Yvonne | Upcoming drama |
| Writer ||||
| 1997 | This Life | N/A | 2 episodes: "When the Dope Comes In", "She's Gotta Get It" |
| 1998 | Big Train | N/A | Additional material (6 episodes) |
| 2000 | Jam | N/A | 1 episode: "fussfussfussfussfussfussfuss" |
| 2000 | Black Cab | N/A | Ten 10-minute TV films (series deviser); 3 episodes: "Busy Body", "Marriage Guidance", "Tom & Marianne" |
| 2000 | Attachments | N/A | 2 episodes: "Plug & Play" and "Hot Mail" |
| 2012–2014 | Scott & Bailey | N/A | 7 episodes: "Sidelines" (2012), "Undermined" (2013), "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" (2013), "Superficial" (2014), "Tough Love" (2014), "Fatal Error" (2014), "Lost Loyalty" (2014) |
| 2019–2022 | Traces | N/A | 10 episodes |

## Theatre work

Actor :
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1987 | Breaking Rank: Oh Yes We Can by Helen Edmundson | | Red Stockings Theatre Company (Manchester) |
| 1988 | Ladies in the Lift by Helen Edmundson | Sarah | Red Stockings Theatre Company (Manchester) |
| 1989 | The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse | Pascal | Contact Theatre (Manchester) |
| 1989 | Be Bop a Lula by Bill Morrison | Sharon Sheeley | Liverpool Playhouse (Liverpool) |
| 1991 | The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht | | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
| 1992 | A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller | Catherine | Royal Exchange (Manchester) |
| 1992 | Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare | Lady Capulet | Royal Exchange (Manchester) |
| 1992 | Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw | Barbara Undershaft | Citizens Theatre (Glasgow) |
| 1992 | Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams | Heavenly Finley | Citizens Theatre (Glasgow) |
| 1993 | How the Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn | Mary | Everyman Theatre (Cheltenham) |
| 1993 | All My Sons by Arthur Miller | Ann Deever | Everyman Theatre (Cheltenham) |
| 1993 | Inadmissible Evidence by John Osborne | Liz | Lyttelton Theatre (London) |
| 1994 | The Queen and I by Sue Townsend | Leanne/Trish | Royal Court Theatre (London) |
| 1994 | Road by Jim Cartwright | Louise/Linda/Claire | Royal Court Theatre (London) |
| 1996 | The Thickness of Skin by Clare McIntyre | Laura | Royal Court Theatre (London) |
| 2004 | Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare | Ensemble | The National Theatre (London) |
| 2004 | The Crucible by Arthur Miller | Elizabeth Proctor | Sheffield Crucible (Sheffield) |
| 2008 | The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn | Ruth | The Old Vic (London) |
| 2009 | The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn | Ruth | Circle in the Square Theatre (New York) |
| 2010 | Really Old, Like Forty Five by Tamsin Oglesby | Cathy | The National Theatre (London) |
| 2015 | A Christmas Carol | | Noël Coward Theatre (London) |
| 2018 | Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker | Marty | HOME (Manchester) |
| Playwright ||||
| 2005 | Mammals | N/A | Bush Theatre (London) |
| 2007 | Ghosts (Henrik Ibsen adaptation) | N/A | Gate Theatre (Dublin) |
| 2011 | Di and Viv and Rose | N/A | Vaudeville Theatre (London) |

## Radio work
### Actor

* 2012: "Sweet Tooth," Book at Bedtime, BBC Radio 4 – Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
* 2016: "Delamere's Meadow," First for Radio, BBC Radio 4 – Delamere's Meadow by Nina Stibbe
* 2017: "The Beard," Drama,BBC Radio 4 – The Beard by Timothy X Atack

### Writer

* 2007: "Down the Line," BBC Radio 4 – January 2007
* 2007: "Cash Flow," From Fact to Fiction, BBC Radio 4
* 2009: "The Bat Man," Afternoon Drama, BBC Radio 4
* 2009: "The Middle," Saturday Drama, BBC Radio 4
* 2009-2014: "Craven," 15 Minute Drama, BBC Radio 4 – Series 1 (2009), Series 2, 3 & 4 (2012), Series 5 (2013), Series 6 (2014)
* 2007: "County Lines (radio play], " BBC Radio 4 – June 2018

## Works and publications
### Plays

* Bullmore, Amelia (2005). Mammals. London: Methuen Pub. ISBN 978-0-413-77522-1. OCLC 82367220.
* Ibsen, Henrik; Bullmore, Amelia (new translation by) (2007). Ghosts. London: Methuen Drama. ISBN 978-0-713-68577-0. OCLC 891562141.
* Bullmore, Amelia (2013). Di and Viv and Rose. London: Bloomsbury Methune Drama. ISBN 978-1-472-50857-7. OCLC 843806192.

### Radio

* Bullmore, Amelia (written by); Davis, Julia; McQuarrie, Stuart; Rabbit, Anne; Treves, Simon; Marinker, Peter (2007). "Cash Flow" (Radio program (15 min)). From Fact to Fiction. BBC Radio 4.
* Bullmore, Amelia (written by); Nighy, Bill; Parkinson, Katherine; Agutter, Jenny; Baker, Sean; Peate, Mary (directed by) (2009). "The Bat Man" (Radio program (45 min)). Afternoon Drama. BBC Radio 4.
* Bullmore, Amellia (written by); Peate, Mary (directed by); Cunniffe, Emma; Miles, Ben (2009). "The Middle" (Radio program (1 hr)). Saturday Drama. BBC Radio 4.
* Bullmore, Amelia (created by, written by); Peake, Maxine (2009). "Craven" (Radio program (15 min)). 15 Minute Drama. BBC Radio 4.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
* Bullmore, Amelia (written by); Crook, Mackenzie (2011). "Family Tree" (Radio program (45 min)). Afternoon Drama. BBC Radio 4.
* Bullmore, Amelia (written by) (2012). "Craven: Looking for Mr King" (Radio program (45 min)). Afternoon Drama. BBC Radio 4.

### Other writing

* Bullmore, Amelia (17 January 2015). "Amelia Bullmore: How I wrote my latest play with a little help from my friends". The Independent.