In New Tricks Amanda plays Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, in charge of a team made up of ex-detectives Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong), Jack Halford (James Bolam) and Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman).
Amanda's been a TV regular since the 1980s. Her other credits include the Mike Bassett film and TV series, and The Blonde Bombshell, where she played the iconic Diana Dors.
Over the years, she's appeared in many detective dramas, including Spender, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Dangerfield and The Sight.
Film roles have included playing Deedee Dove, the ex-porn-star wife of Ray Winstone's character in Sexy Beast.
She played downtrodden-wife-turned-lottery millionaire Alison Braithwaite in three series of ITV drama At Home With The Braithwaites alongside Peter Davison.
Other recent TV appearances for Amanda have been playing Carol Finnegan in thriller Suspicion, and Diana Dors in The Blonde Bombshell. She also explored her family-tree in Who Do You Think You Are? in 2004.
Amanda's early roles included appearances in Tales Of The Unexpected, TV adaptations of The Importance Of Being Earnest and Shakespeare's Pericles, and Paul McCartney film vehicle Give My Regards to Broadstreet.
An incident with a pan of boiling soup during her teenage years left her with a large scar on her arm.
After suffering two ectopic pregnancies, she became a patron of the Ectopic Preganancy Trust.
During her research for Who Do You Think You Are, she discovered that she had a previously unknown relative, descended from her mother's illegitmate half-brother.
