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Amy Beth Hayes
Welsh actress (born 1982) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Amy Beth Hayes (born 8 October 1982) is a British actress. She is best known for her roles as Kitty in Mr Selfridge; Lucy in "The Entire History of You", an episode of Black Mirror; Ruth in Misfits; Clem in Shameless; Amy in The Syndicate; and Maxine Fox in Sirens. She has also appeared in Doctor Who and Secret Diary of a Call Girl.
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Early life
Hayes was born in Abergavenny, Wales,[1] but grew up in Darlington, County Durham, England.[1] Her first taste of acting was as a 14 year old at the National Youth Theatre, she joined a course with much older students and decided to pursue acting as a possible career path.[1] However, first she chose the academic route, studying English Literature and Language at Keble College, Oxford.[2] After graduating, she enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama for three years.[1]
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Hayes career started with a 4 month stay in Romania, filming Eva,[1] later released in 2009.[1] Her screen debut came in 2008, in Doctor Who,[1] episode "The Stolen Earth",[1] and the same year she was cast in a lead role in the ITV drama Whatever It Takes.[1]
Hayes appeared in the 2009 Romanian film Eva,[1] and in Micro Men, a BBC-made film charting the rise and fall of the home computer industry in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, where she played Cynthia alongside Martin Freeman.[1] In 2009, she played Ruth, an old woman restored temporarily to her younger self by a peculiar thunder storm, in E4's superhero comedy-drama Misfits.[2]
In 2011 she played Lucy in "The Entire History of You", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror created by Charlie Brooker.[2] In 2012, she starred in BBC drama The Syndicate, alongside Timothy Spall, playing the girlfriend of one of the lottery winners.[2]
From 2012, she appeared in the ITV drama Mr Selfridge as Kitty Hawkins Edwards.[3] In 2013, she appeared as Rosemary in the Norwegian comedy-gangster television series Lilyhammer, alongside Steve van Zandt.[1]
In 2019, Hayes played Charlotte Bellinge in an episode of the Acorn TV series Agatha Raisin.[4] In 2020, she played the role of Lady Trowbridge in Netflix's Bridgerton.[5] In 2021, she starred in Lenny Henry's Three Little Birds .[5]
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Theatre
In 2008, Hayes appeared in On the Waterfront directed by Steven Berkoff.[1] She received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards for her work in True Love Lies (2009), at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.[5] She appeared in Jerusalem in 2010, with Mark Rylance,[2] and in Linda at the Royal Court Theatre (2015–2016).[5] and Hayes received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards for her work in True Love Lies at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.[5]
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