Amelia Bullmore

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Born

Friday 31st January 1964 (60 years-old)

Nationality

English

Born in Chelsea, London, and educated at Manchester University, where she read Drama, Bullmore began her onstage career as part of a cabaret group named Red Stockings, alongside Helen Edmondson. It was during a performance at the Contact Theatre in Manchester that a casting director for Coronation Street spotted her talent, and offered her a role as Steph Barnes, a regular on the show from 1990 to 1991[/y]. Brief returns came in 1992 and 1995.

Bullmore is also known to British audiences for playing Sonja, the Ukrainian girlfriend of Alan Partridge, in Series 2 of the BBC Two comedy series I'm Alan Partridge.

From 2006 to 2013 she starred in BBC Radio 4 sketch show Down The Line, a spoof phone-in show starring Rhys Thomas as the clueless and tackles DJ Gary Bellamy.

Bullmore is known for undertaking several roles in sitcoms. From 2011 to 2012 she starred alongside Hugh Bonneville and Olivia Colman as Head of Sustainability Kay Hope in the BBC Two and BBC Four sitcom based on the London 2012 Olympic Games, Twenty Twelve. With an extraordinary ability to shoehorn ideas of 'sustainability' (which, she assures us, is different from 'legacy'...) into any conversation or meeting, Hope is tasked with the job of ensuring that the Olympic Games leave a mark on the East End of London.

From 2001 to 2005 Bullmore also starred as Maureen in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Robin And Wendy's Wet Weekends, a programme about a childless couple from Stevenage who have an unhealthy obsession with Mayfield, the model village they have built in their garage.

From 2006 to 2007 she starred in the Channel 5 and Paramount sitcom Suburban Shootout, appearing alongside Anna Chancellor and Felicity Montagu] in a show centred on a small village female crime network.

Alongside these comedy credits, Bullmore's other television work includes Gentleman Jack, Happy Valley, The Crown, State Of Play, and Jam. Bullmore began writing in 1994, and her credits include episodes of shows as varied as This Life, Attachments, Black Cab, and Scott & Bailey. She is also an accomplished playwright, with her first play, Mammals (2005( touring the UK regionally, and her second play, Di and Viv and Rose, played in the West End in 2015.

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