# Amanda Lawrence

Amanda Lawrence is a British actress.
Lawrence studied theatre at Bretton Hall College and worked early in her career in the Edinburgh Fringe. She then moved to London and appeared in theatrical productions such as Brief Encounter, Playing the Victim, and The Firework-Maker's Daughter. She led the stage production of Jiggery Pokery in London in 2009.
In the 2010s she appeared in several television shows, including Above Suspicion, Dead Boss, Midsomer Murders “A Rare Bird” 2012 as Olivia Carter and Mr Selfridge. She also took roles in films, including Womb (2010) and Suffragette (2015). She appeared in a National Theatre production of Angels in America in 2017, and later that year took the role of Resistance commander Larma D'Acy in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and reprised the role in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. In 2019, she appeared in a London production of Top Girls.
In 2020, she played Barbara Farrell in “The Fall of the House of St Gardner”, S8:E9 of Father Brown and in September 2020, she played DC Sarah Raymond in ITV's two-part television drama, Honour. She also appeared in White House Farm (2020) as Barbara Wilson. She joined the cast of children's historical drama series Malory Towers as Matron Shipley for the show's fifth season, and won the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer at the third annual ceremony.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2007 | 28 Weeks Later | Carpark Civilian | |
| 2007 | An Jowl yn Agas Kegin | Valerie Roades | Short film |
| 2008 | Elephants | Fay Gray | Short film |
| 2009 | Me, Me, Me | Emma | Short film |
| 2010 | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | Medium | |
| 2010 | Tamara Drewe | Mary | |
| 2010 | Alice | Ice Cream Girl | Short film |
| 2010 | Womb | Teacher | |
| 2011 | The Lady | Nurse | |
| 2012 | Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger | Supply Teacher 3 | |
| 2014 | Mr. Turner | Hannah's Friend | |
| 2015 | Suffragette | Miss Withers | |
| 2015 | Pan | Sister Joseph | |
| 2016 | Denial | Court Usher | |
| 2017 | Unseen | Manager | Short film |
| 2017 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Commander D'Acy | |
| 2018 | Christopher Robin | Joan MacMillan | |
| 2018 | Love on the A48 | Doctor | Short film |
| 2019 | Lessons of the Hour | Susan B Anthony | Short film |
| 2019 | Real | Monique | |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Commander D'Acy | |
| 2020 | Misbehaviour | Miss Gilboy | |
| 2020 | Summerland | Muriel | |
| 2021 | The Amazing Mr. Blunden | Meakin | Television film |
| 2022 | Matilda the Musical | Cook | |
| 2023 | Club Zero | Ms Benedict | |
| 2023 | Wander to Wonder | Mary | Short film |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2004 | Casualty | Geraldine Branchfield | Episode: "Past Imperfect" |
| 2006 | Afterlife | Alison's Mother / Woman | 2 episodes |
| 2007 | Hotel Babylon | Maureen | Episode: "Series 2, Episode 2" |
| 2007 | Doctor Who | Doomfinger | Episode: "The Shakespeare Code" |
| 2007 | Doctors | Judy Hine | Episode: "Quid Pro Quo" |
| 2008 | Little Miss Jocelyn | | Episode: "Series 2, Episode 2" |
| 2008 | Little Dorrit | Poyner | Episode: "Series 1, Episode 1" |
| 2009 | The Well | The Hag | Episode: "Return to the Well" |
| 2009 | 10 Minute Tales | Ministry of Weather Woman | Episode: "Deep & Crisp & Even" |
| 2009-12 | Above Suspicion | D.C. Joan Faulkland | Series regular; 11 episodes |
| 2011 | Once Upon a Time: The Princess and the Pea | Princess | Miniseries |
| 2011 | Little Crackers | Mrs. Oliver | Episode: "Shappi Khorsandi's Little Cracker" |
| 2012 | Midsomer Murders | Olivia Carter | Episode: "A Rare Bird" |
| 2012 | The Charles Dickens Show | Florence Nightingale | Episode: "Health" |
| 2012 | Dead Boss | Mary | Miniseries |
| 2014 | Mr Selfridge | Pimble | Series regular; 7 episodes |
| 2015 | Foyle's War | Hilary Knowles | Episode: "High Castle" |
| 2015 | The Enfield Haunting | Lindy Crane | Miniseries |
| 2016 | Houdini & Doyle | Sister Mathilda | Episode: "The Maggie's Redress" |
| 2017 | Will | Mary Shakespeare | Episode: "The Play's the Thing" |
| 2020 | Father Brown | Barbara Farrell | Episode: "The Fall of the House of St Gardner" |
| 2020 | White House Farm | Barbara Wilson | Miniseries |
| 2020 | Honour | DC Sarah Raymond | Miniseries |
| 2022 | Chloe | Angela | Miniseries |
| 2022 | Ridley | Lorna Spalden | Episode: "The Peaceful Garden" |
| 2022 | Avenue 5 | Paula | Episode: "Is It a Good Dot?" |
| 2023 | The Change | Janet | Season 1, Episode 3 |
| 2024 | Alice & Jack | Dr. Feldshue | Season 1, Episode 5 |
| 2024 | Ludwig | Julie Tate | Season 1, Episode 3 |
| 2024 | Malory Towers | Matron Shipley | Series regular; 14 episodes |
| 2024 | The Devil's Hour | Evelyn Wiseman | 2 episodes; Season 2, Episodes 4&5 |