Amy Manson

Amy Manson Biography

Amy Manson (born 9 September 1985) is a Scottish actress, known for portraying Alice Guppy in Torchwood, Abby Evans in Casualty, Lizzie Siddal in Desperate Romantics, Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri in Being Human, Medea in Atlantis, and Merida in the fifth season of the ABC fairy tale drama series Once Upon a Time.

Background

Born and brought up in Aberdeenshire, Manson has a sister, Ailsa and a brother, James. She attended Stage Coach, a Saturday drama school, before leaving home for London at the age of seventeen. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, leaving early to film Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud in Romania. She currently lives in north London.

Career

Manson made her film debut in Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud, and has also appeared in the horror film Blood Monkey and the short film Smile Emily.

Manson has lent her voice to the radio dramas Lost in Plain Sight, The Summer Walking and The Dead Hour.

On television, she played Alice Guppy in two episodes of Torchwood, and appeared as Abby Evans in nine episodes of Casualty. She has guest-starred in episodes of Doctors, The Bill and My Family.

Manson played Lizzie Siddal, muse, wife and lover of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in the BBC Two period drama Desperate Romantics. She appeared as the vampiress Daisy Hannigan-Spiteri in series two of Being Human, alongside Desperate Romantics co-star Aidan Turner.

Manson played Ginger Corrigan in the 2010 adaptation of Agatha Christie's Marple: The Pale Horse, and also played Fleur Morgan in Outcasts, an eight-part series by Kudos for BBC One. In 2011, Manson portrayed Leah in the third series of Misfits and Emma "Whirly" Tyson in the BBC drama Young James Herriot.

She will also appear in the forthcoming fifth series of Irish drama Raw.

Awards

Manson won Best Performance (Female) at the 2008 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland, for playing Stepdaughter in the National Theatre of Scotland production of Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Filmography

Television

Year	Show	Role	Notes
2006	The Bill	Martine McKenzie - Episode 405 (2006)	Police drama
2007	My Family	Casting P.A. - Breaking Up Ain't Hard To Do (2007)	Sitcom
2007	Nearly Famous	Melanie - Episode 1.5 (2007)
2008	Doctors	Kelly Moore - Jack the Lad (2008)	Soap opera
	Torchwood	Alice Guppy - Fragments (2008) - Exit Wounds (2008)
	Casualty	Abby Evans - 9 episodes (2008-2009)	Soap opera
2009	Desperate Romantics	Lizzie Siddal	Period drama
2010	Being Human	Daisy - 6 episodes (2010)
2010	Agatha Christie's Marple: The Pale Horse	Ginger Corrigan	Television film
2011	Outcasts	Fleur Morgan - 8 episodes (2011)
	Misfits	Leah - Episode 3.6 (2011)
	Young James Herriot	Emma "Whirly" Tyson - 3 episodes (2011)	Period drama
	The Field of Blood	Karen Burnett
2014-15	Atlantis	Medea
2015-16	Once Upon a Time	Merida	Recurring Role, 8 episodes
2017	The White Princess	Cathy Gordon - 4 episodes	Period drama

Film

Year	Film	Role
2007	Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud	Jodie Hatfield
2007	Blood Monkey	Amy Armstrong
2013	Estranged	January
2013	Not Another Happy Ending	Darsie

Theatre

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2008	Six Characters in Search of an Author	Stepdaughter	Performed at Lyceum Theatre and Citizens Theatre

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