Amelia Bullmore
Amelia Bullmore | |
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Born |
Amelia Mary Bullmore c. 1963/1964 (age 54–55) Chelsea, London, England |
Nationality | British |
Occupation |
Actor Scriptwriter Playwright |
Years active | 1987–present |
Spouse(s) | Paul Higgins |
Children | 2 |
Amelia Mary Bullmore (born c. 1963/1964 (age 54–55))[1][2] is an English actor, screenwriter, and playwright.[3] She is known for her roles in Coronation Street (1990–92), I'm Alan Partridge (2002), Ashes to Ashes (2008–09), Twenty Twelve (2011–12), and Scott & Bailey (2011–14).
Bullmore began writing in 1994.[4][5] Her writing credits include episodes of This Life,[6] Attachments,[7] Black Cab,[8] and Scott & Bailey.[5]
Early life and education
Bullmore was born in Chelsea, London,[1][9] to Jeremy Bullmore, an advertising executive, and Pamela Bullmore (née Green), a gardening writer.[10] She has two older brothers, one of whom is neuropsychiatrist and neuroscientist Edward Bullmore and the other who is documentary filmmaker Adam Bullmore.[11]
She studied drama at Manchester University.[1][3]
Career
Acting
Bullmore, was part of a cabaret group named Red Stockings, along with Helen Edmundson.[12] While performing at the Contact Theatre in Manchester, a casting director for Coronation Street saw her performance. Bullmore played Steph Barnes in Coronation Street, and was a regular on the show from February 1990 to September 1991. She made brief returns in April 1992 and September 1995.[3][11][13] She worked and lived in Manchester for 10 years, moving to London in 1995.[11]
Bullmore appeared opposite Steve Coogan as Sonja, the Ukrainian girlfriend of Alan Partridge in the series two of the BBC2 comedy series I'm Alan Partridge.[13] She also appeared on BBC Radio 4's phone-in spoof Down the Line.[14]
From 2011 to 2014, Bullmore co-starred in the crime drama Scott & Bailey. She also wrote seven episodes of the show.[1][5]
In 2016, she starred in the second series of Happy Valley, playing jealous mistress Vicky Fleming.[15]
Writing
In 2005, Bullmore wrote her first play, Mammals, which was staged at Bush Theatre and went on to tour the UK regionally.[16][17]
In 2013, Bullmore wrote a second play, Di and Viv and Rose, which was staged at Hampstead Theatre.[18] Di and Viv and Rose is about the friendship of three women over the course of 30 years, from 1983 when they are in university to 2013.[19] The play eventually transferred to the West End in early 2015,[20] where it ran at the Vaudeville Theatre before closing in March.[21][22]
Personal life
In 1993, Bullmore married Scottish actor Paul Higgins.[13][23] They met in Manchester in 1992 while they were performing A View from the Bridge.[9] The couple have two daughters, Mary and Flora.[1]
Awards
Year | Award | Work | Result |
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1997 | Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Original TV Drama Serial (shared) | This Life | Won |
2005 | Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (co-winner) | Mammals | Won[24][25] |
2009 | Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance | The Norman Conquests | Won[26] |
2012 | Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Television Drama Series (shared) | Scott & Bailey | Nominated |
2013 | Crime Thriller Awards Best Supporting Actress Dagger | Won[27] | |
2018 | BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Supporting Actor/Actress | The Beard | Nominated[28] |
Filmography
Actor | |||
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Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1990–1992, 1995 | Coronation Street | Steph Barnes | 130 episodes |
1993 | Comedy Playhouse | Beth | 1 episode: "Stuck on You" |
1993 | Cracker | Catriona Bilborough | 2 episodes |
1994 | Woman of the Wolf | Madame Plaisir | TV short |
1994 | Faith | Ros | TV miniseries; 4 episodes |
1996 | Frontiers | Caroline Poole | 6 episodes |
1997 | Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Karen Parmenter | 1 episode |
1997 | Insiders | Paula Green | 1 episode |
1997 | Turning World | Social worker | 2 episodes |
1997 | The Bill | Tracy Cooper | 1 episode |
1997 | Mrs Dalloway | Rezia Warren Smith | |
1997–2001 | Brass Eye | Various roles | 3 episodes |
1998–2002 | Big Train[29] | Various roles | 7 episodes |
1999 | Tilly Trotter | Eileen Sopwith | 2 episodes |
2000 | Jam | Various roles | 6 episodes |
2000 | Attachments | Lin | 1 episode |
2001 | Linda Green | Lucy Cooper | 1 episode |
2002 | The Gist | Freda Cooper | TV movie |
2002 | I'm Alan Partridge | Sonja | 6 episodes |
2002 | Bookcruncher | Bookshop Manageress | Short |
2003 | Hello, Friend | Friend | Short |
2003 | State of Play | Helen Prenger | TV miniseries |
2003 | Coming Up | Psychiatrist | 1 episode: "The Baader Meinhoff Gang Show" |
2004–2006 | Donovan | Evie Strauss | 2 episodes |
2005 | Festival | Micheline Menzies | |
2006 | The Truth | Candy's Mother | |
2006 | Sorted | Claire Hill | 3 episodes |
2006–2007 | Suburban Shootout | Joyce Hazeldine | 11 episodes |
2007 | Director's Debut | Tara Vaughan | 1 episode |
2007 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Frances Cunningham | 2 episodes |
2007 | The IT Crowd | Helen Buley | 1 episode |
2008 | The Whistleblowers | Helen Millard | 1 episode |
2008 | Mrs In-Betweeny | Emma | TV Movie |
2008 | Lewis | Caroline Hope | 1 episode |
2008–2009 | Ashes to Ashes[30] | Caroline Price | 9 episodes |
2009 | Endgame | Gill | |
2010 | Bellamy's People | Various roles | 1 episode |
2010 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Judith Butler | 1 episode: "Hallowe'en Party" |
2010 | Jo Brand's Little Crackers | Helen | 1 episode |
2011 | Shameless | Mildred Fletcher | 3 episodes |
2011 | Inspector Lewis | Caroline Hope | 1 episode |
2011–2014 | Scott & Bailey | DCI Gill Murray | 30 episodes |
2011–2012 | Twenty Twelve | Kay Hope | 13 episodes |
2012 | Sherlock | Dr. Stapleton | 1 episode: "The Hounds of Baskerville" |
2013 | Common Groound | Becky | TV series short; 1 episode |
2013 | It's Kevin | Various roles | 4 episodes |
2014 | What We Did on Our Holiday | Margaret McLeod | |
2015 | Jekyll and Hyde | Renata Jezequiel | 3 episodes |
2016 | Happy Valley | Vicky Fleming | 3 episodes |
2016 | Power Monkeys[31] | Lauren | 6 episodes |
2016 | The Crown | Kathleen Sutherland | 1 episode |
2018 | Deep State | Olivia Clarke | 8 episodes |
Writer | |||
1997 | This Life | N/A | 2 episodes: "When the Dope Comes In", "She's Gotta Get It" |
1998 | Big Train | Additional material (6 episodes) | |
2000 | Jam | 1 episode: "fussfussfussfussfussfussfuss" | |
2000 | Black Cab | Ten 10-minute TV films (series deviser); 3 episodes: "Busy Body" "Marriage Guidance", "Tom & Marianne"[8] | |
2000 | Attachments | 2 episodes: "Hot Mail", "Plug & Play"[7] | |
2012–2014 | Scott & Bailey | 7 episodes: "Sidelines" (2012), "Undermined" (2013), "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" (2013), "Superficial" (2014) "Tough Love" (2014), "Fatal Error" (2014), "Lost Loyalty" (2014) |
Theatre work
Radio work
Actor
- 2012: "Sweet Tooth," Book at Bedtime, BBC Radio 4 – Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan[51]
- 2016: "Delamere's Meadow," First for Radio, BBC Radio 4 – Delamere's Meadow by Nina Stibbe[52]
- 2017: "The Beard," Drama,BBC Radio 4 – The Beard by Timothy X Atack[53]
Writer
- 2007: "Down the Line," BBC Radio 4 – January 2007
- 2007: "Cash Flow," From Fact to Fiction, BBC Radio 4
- 2009: "The Bat Man," Afternoon Drama, BBC Radio 4
- 2009: "The Middle," Saturday Drama, BBC Radio 4
- 2009-2014: "Craven," 15 Minute Drama, BBC Radio 4 – Series 1 (2009), Series 2, 3 & 4 (2012), Series 5 (2013), Series 6 (2014)
Works and publications
Plays
- Bullmore, Amelia (2005). Mammals. London: Methuen Pub. ISBN 978-0-413-77522-1. OCLC 82367220.
- Ibsen, Henrik; Bullmore, Amelia (new translation by) (2007). Ghosts. London: Methuen Drama. ISBN 978-0-713-68577-0. OCLC 891562141.
- Bullmore, Amelia (2013). Di and Viv and Rose. London: Bloomsbury Methune Drama. ISBN 978-1-472-50857-7. OCLC 843806192.
Radio
- Bullmore, Amelia (written by); Davis, Julia; McQuarrie, Stuart; Rabbit, Anne; Treves, Simon; Marinker, Peter (2007). "Cash Flow" (Radio program (15 min)). From Fact to Fiction. BBC Radio 4.
- Bullmore, Amelia (written by); Nighy, Bill; Parkinson, Katherine; Agutter, Jenny; Baker, Sean; Peate, Mary (directed by) (2009). "The Bat Man" (Radio program (45 min)). Afternoon Drama. BBC Radio 4.
- Bullmore, Amellia (written by); Peate, Mary (directed by); Cunniffe, Emma; Miles, Ben (2009). "The Middle" (Radio program (1 hr)). Saturday Drama. BBC Radio 4.
- Bullmore, Amelia (created by, written by); Peake, Maxine (2009). "Craven" (Radio program (15 min)). 15 Minute Drama. BBC Radio 4.
- Bullmore, Amelia (written by); Crook, Mackenzie (2011). "Family Tree" (Radio program (45 min)). Afternoon Drama. BBC Radio 4.
- Bullmore, Amelia (written by) (2012). "Craven: Looking for Mr King" (Radio program (45 min)). Afternoon Drama. BBC Radio 4.
Other writing
- Bullmore, Amelia (17 January 2015). "Amelia Bullmore: How I wrote my latest play with a little help from my friends". The Independent.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Calkin, Jessamy (2 October 2014). "Scott and Bailey's Amelia Bullmore on acting, baking and her love of Bananagrams". The Telegraph.
- ↑ Walsh, Alyson (13 June 2016). "Creative women at work: Amelia Bullmore". That's Not My Age: The Grownup Guide to Great Style.
- 1 2 3 Gilbey, Ryan (15 January 2015). "Amelia Bullmore: 'I love choppy waters'". The Guardian.
- ↑ "Amelia Bullmore". United Agents. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- 1 2 3 Anthony, Andrew (28 April 2012). "Amelia Bullmore: 'I like to think that I don't look like those people'". The Guardian.
- ↑ https://writersguild.org.uk/writers-guild-awards-1996/
- 1 2 "Attachments". World Productions. BBC Worldwide. 2000.
- 1 2 "Black Cab". World Productions. BBC Worldwide. 1999.
- 1 2 3 Wylie, Ian (29 June 2011). "Back 'home' – former Coronation Street star Amelia Bullmore turned Scott & Bailey cop". Manchester Evening News.
- ↑ Hume, Lucy, ed. (2017). "Bullmore, Prof Edward Thomas". Debrett's People of Today 2017. London, UK: Debrett's Peerage Limited. ISBN 978-1-786-84310-4. OCLC 985347513.
- 1 2 3 Gilbert, Gerard (4 March 2012). "Amelia Bullmore: 'My brother calls me the family pornographer'". The Independent.
- ↑ https://thatsnotmyage.com/lifestyle/creative-women-work-amelia-bulmore/
- 1 2 3 "Sonja bags a partridge". The Scotsman. 9 November 2002.
- ↑ Cumming, Michael (2006). "Down The Line - Behind The Microphone". BBC Radio 4.
- ↑ Carson, Sarah (10 November 2017). "Meet the cast of Happy Valley series two". Radio Times.
- ↑ Billington, Michael (11 April 2005). "Mammals, Bush Theatre, London". The Guardian.
- ↑ Benedict, David (5 March 2006). "Mammals". Variety.
- ↑ Masters, Tim (13 February 2013). "Amelia Bullmore explores female friendship in Di and Viv and Rose". BBC News.
- ↑ Gruber, Fiona; Bullmore, Amelia (2 August 2017). "MTC Talks: Interview with Amelia Bullmore" (Audio interview). Melbourne Theatre Company.
- 1 2 Billington, Michael (30 January 2015). "Di and Viv and Rose review – female friendship explored with wit". The Guardian.
- ↑ Bullmore, Amelia (17 January 2015). "Amelia Bullmore: How I wrote my latest play with a little help from my friends". The Independent.
- ↑ Editorial Staff (20 February 2015). "Di and Viv and Rose announces early closure". WhatsOnStage.
- ↑ "Amelia M Bullmore: England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005". 1993.
- ↑ "Plays: 2000's. Mammals, Amelia Bullmore". Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
- ↑ Hernandez, Ernio (25 February 2006). "Bullmore's Mammals and Kuti's Sugar Wife Share 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize". Playbill.
- ↑ Gans, Andrew (21 May 2009). "59th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Presented May 21". Playbill.
- ↑ "The Crime Thriller Award Winners 2013". Dead Good. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ "The List of 2018 Winners". BBC Radio 4. 2018.
- ↑ Gooch, Victoria (25 April 2012). "Big Train: a cult comedy that proved an early platform for top talent". The Guardian.
- ↑ Wylie, Ian (29 June 2011). "Scott and Bailey: Amelia Bullmore". Life of Wylie.
- ↑ McNally, Kevin; Bullmore, Amelia (16 June 2016). "Power Monkeys' Kevin McNally And Amelia Bullmore On EU Referendum Satire" (Video interview). Good Morning Britain.
- ↑ "British Newspaper Archive (including Breaking Rank 1987 production info". Genes Reunited. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- ↑ "The Red Balloon (1989)". Google Books. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
- ↑ "Amelia Bullmore" (PDF). Troika Talent. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ "British Newspaper Archive (includes The Threepenny Opera production info". Genes Reunited. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ "Romeo and Juliet". Neil Stuke. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ "Amelia Bullmore". The Stage. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ "Sweet Bird of Youth (1992)". University of Glasgow Scottish Theatre Archive. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ "British Newspaper Archive (includes How the Other Half Loves and All My Sons production info)". Genes Reunited. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ "Inadmissible Evidence (1993)". Google books. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ "The Queen & I". Theatricalia. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ "Playwright and actor Amelia Bullmore". The Stage. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ Taylor, Paul (5 April 1996). "The Thickness of Skin Royal Court Upstairs, London". The Independent.
- ↑ "Amelia Bullmore CV" (PDF). Troika Talent. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ Spencer, Charles (12 February 2004). "When a flawed classic becomes a must-see". The Telegraph.
- ↑ "The Norman Conquests". The Old Vic. 2008.
- ↑ "Unrequited Love, in Triplicate". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ "Tamsin Oglesby's Really Old, Like Forty-Five opens at London's National Theatre". Playbill. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ↑ Shenton, Mark (9 December 2015). "A Christmas Carol, Starring Jim Broadbent, Opens On The West End Tonight". Playbill.
- ↑ "Circle Mirror Transformation". HOME. 2018.
- ↑ McEwan, Ian (novel by); Bullmore, Amelia (read by); Hall, Christine (abridged and produced by) (7 September 2012). "Sweet Tooth (episode 5)" (Radio program (15 min)). Book at Bedtime. BBC Radio 4.
- ↑ Stibbe, Nina (written by); Bullmore, Amelia (reader) (11 March 2016). "Delamere's Meadow" (Radio program (15 min)). First for Radio. BBC Radio 4.
- ↑ Atack, Timothy X (written by); Bullmore, Amelia (14 September 2017). "The Beard" (Radio program (45 min)). First for Radio. BBC Radio 4.