Amanda elwes biography
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Amanda elwes biography
Amanda Elwes
English actress
Amanda Dorothy Cary Elwes (born 25 July 1964)[1] is an English actress.[2]
Personal life
Amanda Elwes and her twin sister Lydia were born to Timothy Cyprian George Thomas Elwes, of East End Farm, Seale, Surrey, and his first wife Lorna, daughter of Captain Ian Archibald de Hoghton Lyle, Black Watch, of the family of the Lyle baronets of Glendelvine.
Actor Cary Elwes and his brother, producer Cassian Elwes, are her first cousins. In 1992, Elwes married music promoter Matthew Austin.[3]
Career
Elwes started her acting career training at the Central School of Speech and Drama.[4] She first acted on stage in the early 1980's and among her theatre roles are as Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park (Sheffield Crucible), Lucy in Woman in Mind at the Windsor Theatre Royal,[5] Lady Windermere in Lady Windermere's Fan (1993-94, at numerous theatres, including Theatre Royal, Bath and Birmingham Repertory