Known for Acting
Amanda Jacqueline Redman, MBE (born 12 August 1957) is an English actress, known for her role as Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman in the BBC One series New Tricks (2003–2013) and as Dr. Lydia Fonseca in The Good Karma Hospital (2017–2020). She gained BAFTA TV Award nominations for At Home with the Braithwaites (2000–2003) and Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014). Her film roles include For Queen and Country (1988), Sexy Beast (2000) and Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001).
Born
August 12, 1957 (age 69)
Birthplace
Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Filmography
19 films, 44 shows


Scoop
2024 · 1h 43m
country: United Kingdom
Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization gives an insider account of how the women of Newsnight secured Prince Andrew's infamous interview.


Les Dawson Lost Tapes
2021
country: Unknown
Through previously unseen footage and clips, we reveal a very different side to the late comedian Les Dawson's public persona and discover the real Les away from the spotlight.
Bumps
Bumps
2020 · 30m
country: United Kingdom
A sixty-two-year-old divorcee with two grown-up children and no sign any grandchildren on the way decides to secretly undergo treatment to have a baby, only to learn that her 38-year-old daughter is also pregnant and due at the same time.


Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy
2017 · 1h 9m
country: United Kingdom
A fresh and revealing insight into Princess Diana through the personal and intimate reflections of her two sons and her friends and family.


Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
2014 · 1h 40m
country: United Kingdom
The life and times of Tommy Cooper


The Children's Party at the Palace
2006 · 1h 20m
country: United Kingdom
To celebrate her 80th birthday, the Queen is holding a children's party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. She has invited many classic characters from British children's literature. But when the baddies, led by Cruella de Vil, discover that they have not been invited, they steal the Queen's handbag containing her spectacles and the text of her speech; without it, the Queen will not be able to make a speech at the party. Can the goodies find the handbag in time?


Mike Bassett: England Manager
2001 · 1h 29m
country: United Kingdom
After England's football (soccer) manager has a heart attack, Mike Bassett is hired as the new manager and promptly announces the team will win the World Cup.


The Making of Sexy Beast
2001 · 8m
country: United States
A brief promotional featurette about the film including comments from most of the cast, as well as from director Jonathan Glazer.


Sexy Beast
2001 · 1h 29m
country: Spain
Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.


The Sight
2000 · 1h 26m
country: United Kingdom
The American successful architect Michael Lewis travels to London with his partner and friend, the builder Jake, to refurbish an old hotel. Michael is having successive nightmares, and once in London, he realizes that twenty-one spirits are trying to contact him to solve murders of a serial killer. Michael, with the support of Jake, Detective Pryce and the ghosts, try to avoid the ninth crime and find the serial-killer.


The Wedding Tackle
2000 · 1h 34m
country: Unknown
The sexual rivalries between a group of friends cause comic chaos during a stag night celebration.


King Lear
1998 · 2h 30m
country: United Kingdom
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
From Doon with Death
From Doon with Death
1991 · 1h 51m
country: United Kingdom
Margaret Parsons, a fairly ordinary housewife who, with her water board official husband Ron, has recently moved to Kingsmarkham, is found murdered in a field. Mrs. Parsons led an extremely uneventful life, being a lay preacher, but Inspector Wexford is intrigued when he is looking through her belongings and fine a number of expensive antique books all inscribed 'From Doon to Minna'.Who is Doon?


The Lorelei
1990 · 1h 15m
country: United Kingdom
A lonely schoolteacher has a strange experience on her walking holiday. It haunts her and threatens to wreck her growing romance with a colleague.


The Importance of Being Earnest
1988 · 1h 50m
country: Unknown
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.


For Queen & Country
1988 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.


Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1984 · 2h 57m
country: United Kingdom
When Prince Pericles, visiting Antioch, discovers the dreaded answer to King Antiochus's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck. He loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.


Give My Regards to Broad Street
1984 · 1h 49m
country: United Kingdom
When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording company to the lowlife Mr. Rath.


Richard's Things
1980 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.