Emma Amos | |
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Born | Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England | 18 August 1964
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1988–Present |
Spouse | |
Children | 1 |
Emma Amos (born 18 August 1964 [1] in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire) is an English actress. She played Yvonne Sparrow in the last three series and 2016 special of time travel sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart alongside Nicholas Lyndhurst, replacing original actress Michelle Holmes who held the role from 1993-96. In 1992, she played Sherbet Gravel in Philip Ridley's controversial stage play The Fastest Clock in the Universe . [2]
Emma Amos trained at the Royal College of Music from 1982 to 1989, and in 1991 she landed a part in the British film Buddy's Song . Designed as a vehicle for the rising pop-singer Chesney Hawkes, the film also starred Roger Daltrey of rock band the Who as Terry, Buddy's dad. Amos was cast as Dawn, Terry's girlfriend, but only featured in a few brief scenes. Amos's first television role was playing 'Phoebe' the talking phone in the children's series Wizadora. She starred in 8 episodes in 1991 for Oxford Press before the series was picked up by ITV and Phoebe was re-introduced as a model phone. She started in an episode of long-running sit-com Men Behaving Badly , playing the part of Mandy, the annoying girlfriend of Tony's brother, in the episode "People Behaving Irritatingly".
Following a variety of supporting-part roles, Amos eventually landed a starring role alongside Nicholas Lyndhurst in the time-travel sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart . Replacing Michelle Holmes midway through the show's 6 series run, Emma took on the role of time-travelling bigamist Gary Sparrow's 1990s wife, Yvonne.
Since then, Amos has appeared in a range of British television series, including Casualty , A Touch of Frost , Peak Practice , Midsomer Murders , The Bill , My Family and Doctors . She has also appeared in Heartbeat, in which she played Anita Hudson in the episode "Little White Lies," as well as having been seen in the feature films Vera Drake and Bridget Jones's Diary . Amos played Julie Davies in The Last Detective .
In January 2009, she appeared in a Churchill Insurance TV commercial. [3] In 2016 it was announced that Amos, as well as her daughter Esme Coy, would appear in a one-off special return of Goodnight Sweetheart .
On 26 April 2017, it was announced that Amos would be appearing in the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams from 2–24 June 2017. [4]
Amos, who during her run on Goodnight Sweetheart, was voted as having TV's best legs by readers of British magazine The Economist, is married to the actor Jonathan Coy.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1988 | Rowing with the Wind | Joven Veneciana | |
1990 | A Ghost in Monte Carlo | Soprano | TV film |
1991 | Buddy's Song | Dawn | |
1996 | Secrets & Lies | Girl with Scar | |
1997 | Firelight | Ellen | |
1998 | The Tribe | Diana | |
1999 | Passion Killers | Dawn | TV film |
2001 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Paula | |
2002 | Not 360 | Short film | |
2003 | Blackball | Local News Reporter | |
2004 | Fur TV | Thea | TV film |
Vera Drake | Cynical Lady | ||
2010 | Copier | Tina | Short film |
2015 | Scarlet Says | Rose | Short film |
Nightstand | Lady on the Train | Short film | |
2021 | The Football Monologues | Kimberly | |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1989 | Hale and Pace | Pregnant Woman | Episode: "Series 2, Episode 2" |
1992 | Men Behaving Badly | Mandy | Episode: "People Behaving Irritatingly" |
Alas Smith and Jones | Various roles | 2 episodes | |
1994 | Murder Most Horrid | Miss Fleming | Episode: "Overkill" |
Casualty | Anna Owen | Episode: "Family Ties" | |
1994–1995 | Moving Story | Kathy | Series regular, 8 episodes |
1995 | The Bill | Trisha Rogers | Episode: "Allegations and Allegiances" |
1996 | Madson | Sam Connors | Episode: "Series 1, Episode 4" |
1997 | A Perfect State | Deidre | Series regular, 7 episodes |
1997–1999 | Goodnight Sweetheart | Yvonne Sparrow | Series regular, 31 episodes |
1999 | The Bill | Julia Marshall | Episode: "Ring-a-Ring O'Roses" |
2000 | Rhona | Linda | Episode: "The Rain" |
The Bill | Nicky Walker | Episode: "Caught Short" | |
2001 | Peak Practice | Sandy Kelly | Episode: "Flesh and Blood" |
2002 | Rescue Me | Cathy | Episode: "Series 1, Episode 2" |
The Big Impression | Various roles | 2 episodes | |
2003 | A Touch of Frost | Emma Palmer | Episode: Held in Trust |
2003–2007 | The Last Detective | Julie Davies | Series regular, 16 episodes |
2004 | Heartbeat | Angela Price | Episode: "In Sickness and in Health" |
Casualty | Nina Barnes | Episode: "Emotional Rescue" | |
Murder in Suburbia | Fiona Arundel | Episode: "Sanctuary" | |
Midsomer Murders | Sandra Tate | Episode: "Dead in the Water" | |
2005 | The Golden Hour | Kate Murray | Episode: "Series 1, Episode 4" |
Doctors | Terri Fisher | Episode: "Secrets & Lies" | |
2006 | The Bill | Dawn Swanson | Episode: "Long Lost Conscience" |
Heartbeat | Anita Hudson | Episode: "Little White Lies" | |
2007 | Five Days | Councillor Mrs. Hull | Episode: "Day Thirty Three" |
My Family | Joanna Draper | Episode: "Breaking Up Ain't Hard to Do" | |
2008 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Bessie Burch | Episode: "Mrs McGinty's Dead" |
2011 | Holby City | Julia Calder | Episode: "Love Thy Neighbour" |
2012 | Silent Witness | Trudie | Episode: "And Then I Fell in Love" |
2013 | Holby City | Katherine Howards | Episode: "Old Wounds" |
2014 | Doctors | Julie Daniels | Episode: "Judgement Day" |
2016 | Goodnight Sweetheart | Yvonne Sparrow | Episode: "Many Happy Returns" |
Doctors | Kate Croft | Episode: "Sins of the Father" | |
2018 | Still Open All Hours | Mrs. Machin | Episode: "Series 5, Episode 2" |
2019–2021 | The Stand Up Sketch Show | Various | 5 episodes |
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