Amanda Redman was born 12 August 1959 in Brighton and is an English actress. She is perhaps most famous as Alison Braithwaite in the television series At Home With The Braithwaites and also as Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman in the BBC1 drama New Tricks which also stars Dennis Waterman.
Amanda was trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and she is the niece of actress Joyce Redman.
She has a daughter Emily who was born in 1987, she is also an actress, from her first and only marriage to the actor Robert Glenister, however they are now divorced.
Amanda is also a supporter of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Amanda is very badly scarred on her upper left arm as a result of scalding herself with a pan of boiling soup when she was a teenager.