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AMANDA HOLDEN
VERA
Amanda is an actress, singer and presenter.
Training: Mountview Theatre School.
Theatre includes: Liesl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, The Importance of Being Earnest and Arsenic and Old Lace.
She also had the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award, and Princess Fiona in the West End premiere of Shrek the Musical. Amanda has just finished a sell-out run of the pantomime spectacular Cinderella at the London Palladium, where she played the Fairy Godmother.
Television includes: leading roles in The Grimleys, Kiss Me Kate, Happy Birthday Shakespeare, Hearts and Bones, Now You See Her, Ready When You Are Mr McGill, Mad About Alice, Cutting It, Miss Marple, Big Top and Wild at Heart. She is also well known as a TV host presenting Jesus Christ Superstar, Lorraine, Celebrating the Carpenters, Fantasy Lives, Out of My Depth, The Door, Night of Heroes, Dispatches, Give a Pet a Home, This Morning, and most recently I’ve Got Something to Tell You. She worked for two years for the American Network CBS as their UK Entertainment Correspondent.
Amanda is proud to be the longest-serving judge on the multi award-winning Britain’s Got Talent, and celebrates her 11th year in 2017 alongside Simon Cowell.
Her autobiography No Holding Back became a Sunday Times Best Seller in 2013-14.
‘I want to thank James Grant Group for believing in this project and Jason Maddocks for his support; to my lovely husband Chris for holding the fort (and me) together; and finally to my beautiful daughters Lexi and Hollie – enjoy this play and know, if you surround yourself with a bunch of wonderful strong girls, you can get through anything in life! ’
TRACY-ANN OBERMAN
MAXINE
Theatre includes: Stepping Out (Theatre Royal Bath), The Mighty Walzer (Manchester Royal Exchange), McQueen (St James Theatre/Haymarket), Godchild, Old Money and On the Rocks (Hampstead Theatre), Earthquakes in London (NT/ tour), Absurd Person Singular (Leicester Curve), Boeing Boeing (West End), The Oak Tree and School Play (Soho Theatre), Edmond and Waiting for Leftie (NT), Hello Goodbye (Southwark Playhouse), Loot (Vaudeville), Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Two and Caught in the Act (Chichester), Love for Love (New End), A Call in the Night (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and A Christmas Carol, The Changeling, Tamburlaine, The Beggar’s Opera, A Jovial Crew and Macbeth (RSC).
Film includes: Call Me Alvy, The Casanova Variations, Moomins on the Riviera, The Funeral, Hector and the Search for Happiness, Filth, Wall, Girl Number 9, The Infidel, The Early Days, SuperTex, Killing Time and Hope Machine.
Television includes: The Tracey Ullman Show, Hoff the Record, New Tricks (regular), Crims, Siblings, Father Brown, Give Out Girls (regular), Toast of London (regular), Best of Men, Monroe (regular), Friday Night Dinner (regular), Waterloo Road, Comedy Playhouse, Sadie Jones, Tracey Beaker Returns, M I High, Filth, Mistresses, Robin Hood, Summerhill, Sorted, Doctor Who, EastEnders – NTV nominated (regular), The Last Detective, Murder in Suburbia, Doctors, Where the Heart Is, Harringham Harker, Big Train (regular), Lenny Henry in Pieces, 15 Storeys High, The Cow, Marion and Geoff, Bob Martin (regular), Happiness, Starhunter, The Way It Is, Strangerers, Success, Kiss Me Kate, The Bill, Casualty, The Grove and Loved By You.
Radio and Audio includes: over 600 plays, comedies and sketch shows for BBC Radio 4 – most recently: From Moscow (Teffi), The Norman Conquests, Wolf in the Water and Mrs Robinson, I Presume (actor and writer), Torchwood Before the Fall (Big Finish).
‘Thanks to my gorgeous daughter, Anoushka, who helped me with all the tap steps.’
TAMZIN OUTHWAITE
MAVIS
Theatre includes: How the Other Half Loves (West End), Di & Viv & Rose (West End and Hampstead), Breeders (West End), Raving (Hampstead), Charity in Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory and West End) for which she was nominated for Best Actress in a Musical at the WhatsOnStage.com awards, Boeing Boeing (West End), Breathing Corpses (Royal Court) nominated for TMA Award, Flesh Wound (Royal Court), Oliver! (West End), Grease (West End), Carousel (NT), Radio Times (West End), They’re Playing Our Song, Absent Friends and Baby on Board (all directed by Alan Ayckbourn, Stephen Joseph Theatre) and original company for Oliver!, Grease, Radio Times and Boeing Boeing.