Amanda Burton
Amanda Burton is a Northern Irish actress, active from 1981. During her career, Burton was best known for her television roles as Heather Black in the Channelsoap opera Brookside, Beth Glover in Peak Practice, Sam Ryan in the BBC crime drama series Silent Witness, Clare Blake in The Commander and Karen Fisher in Waterloo Road.
Burton was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, the youngest of four sisters. Her father was a primary school headmaster. After attending Londonderry High School, a girlsonly secondary school in the city of Derry, she moved to England at the age of 18, where she spent three years studying drama at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre. While there she met theatre technician Jonathan Hartley, whom she married in 1976 the couple divorced in 1982. She remarried, to Sven Arnstein in 1989 the couple had two children before divorcing in 2004.
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