Amanda Barrie

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Amanda Barrie (* 14. September 1935 in Ashton-under-Lyne , Lancashire , England as Shirley Ann Broadbent ) is a British actress .

Life

The granddaughter of a theater owner played minor roles in theater performances as a young girl. While still at school, she began training at the Cone Ripman Acting School . After her parents divorced in 1949, she moved to London, where she lived for a few years at the Theater Girls in Soho and worked as an extra. From 1958 she appeared under the stage name Amanda Barrie . In April 1961, she made her stage debut in London's West End in a production of Babes In The Wood at Findsbury Park Empire . Up until the 1960s, the stage was her main field of activity. She played and sang in productions of Cabaret , Noël Coward's Private Lives , Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt , Aladdin , Cinderella and Little by Little .

As a film actress, she starred in comedies such as Doctor In Distress (based on the "Dr. Sparrow" novels by Richard Gordon ) and the Disney production Who Stole Our Dinosaur? , in dramas like Absurd Person Singular (as the wife of Paul Eddington ) and in musicals like Stepping Out (with Julia McKenzie ). In 1963 she received a role from Peter Rogers as an emancipated taxi driver in Carry on Cabby from the long-lived Carry-on… film series . The following year she played the female lead in another film in the series, Carry on Cleo , the Egyptian ruler Cleopatra VII , as a parody of Cleopatra Elizabeth Taylor from the eponymous monumental film .

In 1962 she made her television debut alongside Donald Churchill in The Bulldog Breed . It was followed by numerous appearances in TV movies and series such as Morecambe and Wise (where she performed as a dancer in appearance), Koroshi , Time Of My Life , L For Lester and a television adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream . She even worked as an assistant to Hughie Green for a while on the game show Double Your Money . In 1981 she appeared in the role of "Alma Sedgewick", the wife of a café owner, for the first time in the soap opera Coronation Street . Although the guest appearance lasted only two weeks, it was followed by numerous larger and smaller appearances in this role in the years that followed, before she became a permanent member of the ensemble from 1989. In 2001 Amanda Barrie retired and said goodbye to Coronation Street . In the series action, the exit was justified with a fatal cancer of the character "Alma" (now married "Baldwin"). Nevertheless, she occasionally accepted television offers such as in the series Bad Girls or in 2004 in the reality TV series Hell's Kitchen .

Amanda Barrie married the actor and director Robin Hunter in 1967 , from whom she has been separated for a long time. In 2003 she published her autobiography under the title It's not a rehearsal , in which the actress, who had been shy of the public until then, was very open about her private life.

Filmography (selection)

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Sources and individual references

  1. ↑ For a long time, Amanda Barrie herself gave 1939 as the year of birth; it was not until September 2000 that it corrected this information.
personal data
SURNAME Barrie, Amanda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broadbent, Shirley Ann (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Ashton-under-Lyne , Lancashire , England , United Kingdom