Amanda Mealing Biography

Fast Facts

• 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
• 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․"
• Her best known role was on the medical drama "Holby City" as Cardiothoracic Consultant Connie Beauchamp
• Remained close to her childhood friend, actress Patsy Kensit, who she met when she was 6 years old