Amanda Mealing

Birth Name:

Amanda Jane Mealing

Birth Place:

Dulwich, London, England

Profession

Actress, Director, Soundtrack

As an ambassador for Save the Children in Sierra Leone, she filmed a documentary about Kroo Bay, a slum built on garbage thrown out by Freetown with high mortality rates for children
Accepted an invitation to be an ambassador for Breast Cancer Care in 2010 after the organization helped her through her own fight against the disease
An adopted child, her adulthood quest to find her biological parents reconnected her with her birth mother and a younger sister who grew up watching her on "Grange Hill" though the two knew nothing of each other at the time
When she was six, she secured her first professional acting job in a Julie Andrews special on BBC television
Her best known role was on the medical drama "Holby City" as Cardiothoracic Consultant Connie Beauchamp
When she was a child, she was known for playing a comprehensive-school pupil named Tracy Edwards on the children's drama series "Grange Hill․"
Remained close to her childhood friend, actress Patsy Kensit, who she met when she was 6 years old

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