---
name: "Mandy Matthews"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mandy-matthews"
fi1m_id: "mandy-matthews"
imdb_id: "nm0560103"
tmdb_id: 110953
wikidata_id: "Q98039213"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:26:52.063561+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Mandy Matthews

## Identity

Mandy Matthews

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mandy-matthews
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mandy-matthews
- **IMDb ID:** nm0560103
- **TMDB ID:** 110953
- **Wikidata ID:** Q98039213
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98039213, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0560103/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/110953

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98039213, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0560103/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/110953

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*Ratcatcher*](https://film.one/film/ratcatcher.md) (88)

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## Biography

Mandy Matthews is a Scottish actress. She played Ma (Anne Gillespie) in Lynne Ramsay's debut feature *Ratcatcher* (1999).

Matthews appeared in British television and film throughout the 1990s. Her credits include the series *Cardiac Arrest* (1994–1996) as student nurse Pam Charnley, *Looking After Jo Jo* (1998) as Carol, *Take the High Road* (1992), and *Taggart* (1990), as well as the television films *Dream Baby* (1989) and *Ruffian Hearts* (1995). She also featured in *Eight Days a Week* (1997). For her performance in *Ratcatcher* she received the Best Actress award at the Bratislava International Film Festival. Her last screen credit was as Sandra Taylor in the BBC Scotland series *Tinsel Town* (2000).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, glasgowlive.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ratcatcher* (1999), Fi1m 88, as Ma — [page](https://film.one/film/ratcatcher.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Somersault* (2000), as Trash
- *Tinsel Town* (2000), series, as Sandra Taylor
- *Ratcatcher* (1999), as Ma — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/ratcatcher.md)
- *Eight Days a Week* (1997), as Neighborhood Kid
- *Ruffian Hearts* (1995), as Louise
- *Dream Baby* (1989), as Sheena

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