Amanda Lawrence

Amanda Lawrence

Birth : 1971-01-01, United Kingdom

History

Amanda Lawrence is known for Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019), Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) and Suffragette (2015).

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Amanda Lawrence

Movies

Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical
Cook
An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results.
How I See You
The Friend
A chance encounter with a photographer sends a woman on a journey of self-identity.
Wonder Boy
Wainwright
Sonny is twelve. Living with a stammer, he is finding his way in a world ruled by vicious vowels, confusing consonants, and let’s not forget the biggest beast of them all – small talk. A comic book hero of Sonny’s own creation helps him take on his school and home life troubles – but communication is power, and Sonny must find a way to be heard. But when cast in the school production of Hamlet – his worst nightmare – he soon finds the real heroes are closer than he thinks. Dive head-first into the wondrous, hilarious, and moving Wonder Boy in a coming-of-age story that champions the power of communication against an unforgiving school system. Packed with larger-than-life characters, live music and ground-breaking creative captioning, Wonder Boy will capture your heart and take it to the moon.
Summerland
Muriel
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Misbehaviour
Miss Gilboy
A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Commander D'Acy
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
National Theatre Live: Top Girls
Pope Joan
Now hiring: top girls wanted for prestige positions. Must be self-motivated go-getters with an appetite for success. No timewasters. Marlene is the first woman to head the Top Girls employment agency. But she has no plans to stop there. With Maggie in at Number 10 and a spirit of optimism consuming the country, Marlene knows that the future belongs to women like her.
Christopher Robin
Joan MacMillan
Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Commander D'Acy
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.
Unseen
Manager
A cleaner in a brand new apartment block begins to suspect one of the residents is a victim of domestic abuse.
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part Two: Perestroika
The Angel/Voice Of Orrin/Mormon Centre Mother/Nurse Emily
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. This new staging of Tony Kushner's multi-award winning two-part play, Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes, is directed by Olivier and Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott.
National Theatre Live: Angels In America — Part One: Millennium Approaches
The Angel/The Voice/Nurse Emily/Sister Chapter/Homeless Woman
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's two-part play 'Angels In America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.
Denial
Court Usher
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Suffragette
Miss Withers
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
Mr. Turner
Hannah's Friend
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
We Are the Freaks
Mrs Parsons
Three misfits embark on a weekend they will never forget.
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!
Supply Teacher 3
This sequel to the popular British comedy sees a new teacher (David Tennant) take over. When he enters his school in the National 'Song for Christmas' Competition, he and his pregnant wife, and the schoolchildren, embark on an epic road trip that ends up with a birth and a donkey, where he must embrace his fears and become a hero.
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Medium
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.
Tamara Drewe
Mary
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Henry VIII - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
The Fool/Virginia, A Lady-in-Waiting
The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King's first minister and the country's most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power. Wolsey's ambition knows no bounds and when his chief ally, Queen Katherine, interferes in the King's romance with Ann Bullen, he brings ruin upon himself, the Queen and centuries of English obedience to Rome.
28 Weeks Later
Carpark Civilian
The inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.
Club Zero
A teacher takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students — a relationship that eventually takes a dangerous turn.