Amanda Redman

Acting

Amanda Redman

Born 1957-08-12 · Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK

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).

Acting credits

Sexy Beast poster
7.0

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.

Sexy Beast

2001

Scoop poster
6.4

Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization gives an insider account of how the women of Newsnight secured Prince Andrew's infamous interview.

Scoop

2024

The Lorelei poster
3.3

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 Lorelei

1990

The Children's Party at the Palace poster
2.8

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?

The Children's Party at the Palace

2006

Pericles, Prince of Tyre poster
7.5

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.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

1984

Richard's Things poster
4.9

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.

Richard's Things

1980

For Queen & Country poster
5.3

A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.

For Queen & Country

1988

Mike Bassett: England Manager poster
7.0

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.

Mike Bassett: England Manager

2001

Give My Regards to Broad Street poster
5.1

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.

Give My Regards to Broad Street

1984

The Wedding Tackle poster
10.0

The sexual rivalries between a group of friends cause comic chaos during a stag night celebration.

The Wedding Tackle

2000

King Lear poster
8.5

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

King Lear

1998

The Making of Sexy Beast poster
NR

A brief promotional featurette about the film including comments from most of the cast, as well as from director Jonathan Glazer.

The Making of Sexy Beast

2001

The Sight poster
5.3

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 Sight

2000

The Importance of Being Earnest poster
5.4

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.

The Importance of Being Earnest

1988

Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy poster
7.2

A fresh and revealing insight into Princess Diana through the personal and intimate reflections of her two sons and her friends and family.

Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy

2017

Les Dawson Lost Tapes poster
NR

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.

Les Dawson Lost Tapes

2021

Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This poster
6.9

The life and times of Tommy Cooper

Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This

2014

No artwork available
NR

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.

Bumps

2020

No artwork available
8.0

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?

From Doon with Death

1991