Biography
Amanda Mealing is an English actress and director. Born on 22 April 1967 in Dulwich, London, she began performing professionally at the age of six in a BBC television special hosted by Julie Andrews. She trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
Mealing is best known for playing cardiothoracic consultant Connie Beauchamp in the BBC medical dramas Holby City (2004–2010) and Casualty (2014–2021). Her other acting credits include Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Strike Back (2010), Midsomer Murders (1997), Death in Paradise (2011), Father Brown (2013) and The Bill (1984).
She has also directed episodes of Casualty, Coronation Street, The Dumping Ground and Waterloo Road. Mealing has been married to screenwriter Richard Sainsbury since 1998.
