Amanda Donohoe

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BIRTHDAY

June 29, 1962

London, England, UK

RECENT CREDITS

Circus (FILM) Sep. 15, 2000

Ally McBeal (TV) Apr. 10, 2000

Wild About Harry (FILM) Jan. 1, 2000

I'm Losing You (FILM) Jan. 1, 1999

One Night Stand (FILM) Nov. 14, 1997

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An alumnus of London's Central School of Speech and Drama, English actress Amanda Donohoe's first film role was a supporting one in the door-slamming sex farce Foreign Body (1986). She then starred in a handful of British TV movies, usually cast as the slinky femme fatale. Briefly a member of director Ken Russell's informal stock company, Donohoe was stunning as the wicked snake woman in Russell's Lair of the White Worm (1988); in the same director's The Rainbow (1989), she played the worldly seductress to whom sexual naif Judy Davis turns to for advice. Donohoe was also starred as the alluring desert-island companion of Oliver Reed in director Nicholas Roeg's Castaway (1987), and was seen in a rare sympathetic role in 1990's Paper Mask. It was back to "black widows" again in 1993's made-for-cable The Substitute--one of several recent TV appearances for Donohoe, the most well-publicized of which was her weekly assignment as attorney C. J. Lamb on the popular TV series LA Law.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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