Amanda Donohoe


Actor

About

Birth Place
London, England, GB
Born
June 29, 1962

Biography

An ebullient, poshly elegant leading lady, Amanda Donohue was seen at her best in "The Lair of the White Worm" (1988), Ken Russell's slice of contemporary Gothic ham. Donohoe won TV audience visibility when she joined the long-running "L.A. Law" during the 1990-91 season as a bisexual character who shared an on screen kiss with a female co-worker. Donohue also scored as a lady-in-waiting...

Family & Companions

Adam Ant
Companion
Pop star. Together in the late 1970s; she was nicknamed "Mandy Ant".
Nicholas Broomfield
Companion
Director. Directed her in "Dark Obsession" (1991); began relationship c. 1988; separated October 1991; reconciled; separated again.

Biography

An ebullient, poshly elegant leading lady, Amanda Donohue was seen at her best in "The Lair of the White Worm" (1988), Ken Russell's slice of contemporary Gothic ham. Donohoe won TV audience visibility when she joined the long-running "L.A. Law" during the 1990-91 season as a bisexual character who shared an on screen kiss with a female co-worker. Donohue also scored as a lady-in-waiting who becomes the object of affection of Nigel Hawthorne's monarch in "The Madness of King George" (1994).

Life Events

1986

Screen acting debut in "Foreign Body"; also costarred in Nicolas Roeg's "Castaway"

1994

Had featured role in "The Madness of King George"

2000

Replaced Jerry Hall as Mrs Robinson in the London stage production of "The Graduate"

Companions

Adam Ant
Companion
Pop star. Together in the late 1970s; she was nicknamed "Mandy Ant".
Nicholas Broomfield
Companion
Director. Directed her in "Dark Obsession" (1991); began relationship c. 1988; separated October 1991; reconciled; separated again.

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