Amanda Redman (born 12 January 1959) is an English actress, perhaps best known for her role as Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, in New Tricks.
Redman was born in Brighton, Sussex, England on the 12 January 1959. Born to English parents, her father was from Yorkshire and her mother from Sussex.
The niece of actress Joyce Redman, Redman is badly scarred on her upper left arm as a result of scalding herself with a pan of boiling turkey and vegetable soup when she was 18 months old. She suffered 3rd degree burns to 75% of her body (her arm was the only area permanently affected) in the accident and was so traumatised she was actually pronounced clinically dead at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex. Her father died in 1980.
Redman trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and early in her career she had rhinoplasty.
She played opposite Liv Ullman in "Richard's Things" (1981) and took over from Alfred Molina in the 1990's comedy drama El C.I.D., playing a new female lead in the series, and played Diana Dors in the 1999 TV movie The Blonde Bombshell. In 2000 she played Deedee Dove in the feature film Sexy Beast, and most recently, she has starred in the TV series New Tricks. In 2004 Redman performed in Children's Party At The Palace as Cruella DeVil for Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday; and was the subject of one episode of the BBC documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, a program about her family history.
She is currently appearing in the ITV1 drama "Honest."
Redman was president of the Brighton Little Theatre from 2004-2007. She is also involved in drama education at the Artist's Theatre School, based at Ealing Studios.
She has a daughter Emily (born 1987), also an actress, from her first and only marriage to the actor Robert Glenister from whom she is now divorced. Redman has been in a relationship with mobile phone designer Damian Schnabel, since 1999. The couple live in Ealing, West London. She is also a supporter of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.
