Amy Mathews

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Amy Mathews
Born (1979-03-29) 29 March 1979 (age 45)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
OccupationActress
Years active2001–present
Known for Home and Away
Awards Logie Award for Most Popular New Female Talent (2007)
Website Official site

Amy Mathews (born 29 March 1979) is an Australian television, film and theatre actress. She is best known for her role as Rachel Armstrong in Australian soap opera Home and Away .

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Early life

Mathews was born in Melbourne, Victoria, but has spent most of her life in Sydney. She was offered a scholarship at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, which she completed. She then enrolled in and completed a two-year acting course in Surry Hills, Sydney, where she met fellow Home and Away actor Jon Sivewright, who plays Tony Holden, her husband on the show.

Career

Mathews became involved with the Bell Shakespeare Company. She performed as part of the "Actors at Work" program touring high schools in Australia and Singapore. [1] She has a passion for the theatre, her first role was in 2003 with Cigarettes and Chocolate and Other Hang Ups. [2] Mathews other theatre credits include Tracked, Push Up 1-3, Chicom, Orange Flower Water. [3] She is currently appearing in Transparency. [4] [5] [6]

Mathews made her acting debut on screen in 2001 when she made a guest appearance in the short-lived television series Head Start . She has had several roles on other television series including Always Greener , Blue Heelers , Love Bytes, All Saints and the British series Jeopardy . Before landing the role of Rachel Armstrong on Australian soap opera Home and Away , she waited tables until she could make enough money. Mathews played the role of doctor and psychiatrist Rachel Armstrong since the first episode of the 2006 season, [7] until 2010 when she departed the show. [8] The reason she decided to leave was because she wanted to move on and try new projects. The role of Rachel won Mathews the Logie Award for Most Popular New Female Talent in 2007. [9] [10] Following her departure from Home and Away, Mathews made a guest appearances in two episodes of the popular television series Packed to the Rafters . Her most recent guest roles include Rescue: Special Ops and Crownies which stars former Home and Away co-stars Todd Lasance and Indiana Evans.

In 2007, Mathews starred in the Australian film Gabriel , in which she had just begun her run on Home and Away while shooting the film. Gabriel is her only film credit. Since leaving Home and Away, she has starred on stage in various plays, and in t.v commercials.

She has an interest in writing and directing, and she currently runs her own blog, [11] and is studying surface design. [12]

In August 2023, it was announced that Mathews would be joining the cast of the courtroom drama series, The Twelve for its second season. [13]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2007 Gabriel MaggieFeature film
2020 I Met a Girl Senior Constable HarrisonFeature film

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2001 Head Start LouiseSeason 1 (guest, 1 episode)
2002 Always Greener T'ree Season 2 (guest, 1 episode)
2003 All Saints Mary Cowper Season 6 (guest, 1 episode)
2003 Jeopardy Constable TuckerSeason 2 (guest, 2 episodes)
2004 Love Bytes MelSeason 1 (recurring, 4 episode)
2004 Blue Heelers Tahnya West Season 11 (guest, 1 episode)
2005 All Saints Cassie Anderson Season 8 (guest, 1 episode)
2006–2010 Home and Away Rachel Armstrong Seasons 19–23 (regular, 331 episodes)
2010 Packed to the Rafters Erin Moore Season 3 (guest, 2 episodes)
2011 Rescue: Special Ops Claire NewellSeason 3 (guest, 2 episodes)
2011 Crownies Vanessa KenaySeason 1 (guest, 1 episode)
2014 A Place to Call Home Amy Polson Season 2 (recurring, 7 episodes)
2020 The Heights RimaSeason 2 (guest, 1 episode)
2023The Claremont MurdersMichelle BowmanMiniseries (1 episode)
2024 The Twelve Sasha PriceTV series: 8 episodes

Theatre

YearTitleRoleNotes
2003Cigarettes and Chocolate and Other Hang UpsGemma Darlinghurst Theatre
2003TrackedRose Old Fitzroy Theatre
2005Push Up 1-3Sabine
2010:ChicomGrunt 3New Theatre
2011Orange Flower WaterCathy Calhoun Darlinghurst Theatre
2011TransparencyJessica Seymour Centre & Riverside Theatre
2018 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Olive LeechVideo (theatre performance)

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References

  1. ↑ "Home and Away Cast Amy Mathews". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  2. ↑ Stephen Dunne (1 April 2003) "Cigarettes and Chocolates and Other Hang Ups, See-Saw Theatre Company". The Sydney Morning Herald. April 2003. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  3. ↑ Jason Blake (29 March 2011) "Orange Flower Water". Brisbane Times. 29 March 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  4. ↑ Lloyd Bradford Skye (13 September 2011) "REVIEW: Transparency – York Theatre, Sydney". crikey.com.au. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  5. ↑ Chris Hook (24 August 2011) "Transparency at the Seymour Centre and Riverside Theatres". The Daily Telegraph. Australia. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  6. ↑ Suzanne MacKay (3 September 2011) "Transparency - Seymour Centre". aussietheatre.com. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  7. ↑ Nicholson, Sarah (11 March 2008). "A breath of fresh air". The Courier-Mail . Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  8. ↑ Kilkelly, Daniel (15 February 2010). "Two more to leave 'Home and Away'". Digital Spy . Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  9. ↑ "2007 TV WEEK Logie Awards". ninemsn. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  10. ↑ "Amy Mathews wins Most Popular Female Talent at Logies 2007". 7 May 2007. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2011– via YouTube.
  11. ↑ "Actress Amy Mathews Official Blog".
  12. ↑ "Actress Amy Mathews Instagram". Archived from the original on 24 April 2015.
  13. ↑ Slatter, Sean (31 August 2023). "Frances O'Connor to join Sam Neill in second season of 'The Twelve' as new cast unveiled". IF Magazine . Archived from the original on 31 August 2023. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
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