Emma Amos (actress)

Emma Amos (born 18 August 1964^[1] in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire) is an English actress. She played Yvonne Sparrow in the last three series and 2016 special of time travel sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart alongside Nicholas Lyndhurst, replacing original actress Michelle Holmes who held the role from 1993-96. In 1992, she played Sherbet Gravel in Philip Ridley's controversial stage play The Fastest Clock in the Universe.^[2]

Emma Amos
Born	(1964-08-18) 18 August 1964 (age 60) Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1988–Present
Spouse	Jonathan Coy ​ (m. 1998)​
Children	1

Life

Emma Amos trained at the Royal College of Music from 1982 to 1989, and in 1991 she landed a part in the British film Buddy's Song. Designed as a vehicle for the rising pop-singer Chesney Hawkes, the film also starred Roger Daltrey of rock band the Who as Terry, Buddy's dad. Amos was cast as Dawn, Terry's girlfriend, but only featured in a few brief scenes. Amos's first television role was playing 'Phoebe' the talking phone in the children's series Wizadora. She starred in 8 episodes in 1991 for Oxford Press before the series was picked up by ITV and Phoebe was re-introduced as a model phone. She started in an episode of long-running sit-com Men Behaving Badly, playing the part of Mandy, the annoying girlfriend of Tony's brother, in the episode "People Behaving Irritatingly".

Following a variety of supporting-part roles, Amos eventually landed a starring role alongside Nicholas Lyndhurst in the time-travel sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart. Replacing Michelle Holmes midway through the show's 6 series run, Emma took on the role of time-travelling bigamist Gary Sparrow's 1990s wife, Yvonne.

Since then, Amos has appeared in a range of British television series, including Casualty, A Touch of Frost, Peak Practice, Midsomer Murders, The Bill, My Family and Doctors. She has also appeared in Heartbeat, in which she played Anita Hudson in the episode "Little White Lies," as well as having been seen in the feature films Vera Drake and Bridget Jones's Diary. Amos played Julie Davies in The Last Detective.

In January 2009, she appeared in a Churchill Insurance TV commercial.^[3] In 2016 it was announced that Amos, as well as her daughter Esme Coy, would appear in a one-off special return of Goodnight Sweetheart.

On 26 April 2017, it was announced that Amos would be appearing in the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams from 2–24 June 2017.^[4]

Amos, who during her run on Goodnight Sweetheart, was voted as having TV's best legs by readers of British magazine The Economist, is married to the actor Jonathan Coy.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Rowing with the Wind	Joven Veneciana
1990	A Ghost in Monte Carlo	Soprano	TV film
1991	Buddy's Song	Dawn
1996	Secrets & Lies	Girl with Scar
1997	Firelight	Ellen
1998	The Tribe	Diana
1999	Passion Killers	Dawn	TV film
2001	Bridget Jones's Diary	Paula
2002	Not 360		Short film
2003	Blackball	Local News Reporter
2004	Fur TV	Thea	TV film
	Vera Drake	Cynical Lady
2010	Copier	Tina	Short film
2015	Scarlet Says	Rose	Short film
	Nightstand	Lady on the Train	Short film
2021	The Football Monologues	Kimberly

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Hale and Pace	Pregnant Woman	Episode: "Series 2, Episode 2"
1992	Men Behaving Badly	Mandy	Episode: "People Behaving Irritatingly"
	Alas Smith and Jones	Various roles	2 episodes
1994	Murder Most Horrid	Miss Fleming	Episode: "Overkill"
	Casualty	Anna Owen	Episode: "Family Ties"
1994–1995	Moving Story	Kathy	Series regular, 8 episodes
1995	The Bill	Trisha Rogers	Episode: "Allegations and Allegiances"
1996	Madson	Sam Connors	Episode: "Series 1, Episode 4"
1997	A Perfect State	Deidre	Series regular, 7 episodes
1997–1999	Goodnight Sweetheart	Yvonne Sparrow	Series regular, 31 episodes
1999	The Bill	Julia Marshall	Episode: "Ring-a-Ring O'Roses"
2000	Rhona	Linda	Episode: "The Rain"
	The Bill	Nicky Walker	Episode: "Caught Short"
2001	Peak Practice	Sandy Kelly	Episode: "Flesh and Blood"
2002	Rescue Me	Cathy	Episode: "Series 1, Episode 2"
	The Big Impression	Various roles	2 episodes
2003	A Touch of Frost	Emma Palmer	Episode: Held in Trust
2003–2007	The Last Detective	Julie Davies	Series regular, 16 episodes
2004	Heartbeat	Angela Price	Episode: "In Sickness and in Health"
	Casualty	Nina Barnes	Episode: "Emotional Rescue"
	Murder in Suburbia	Fiona Arundel	Episode: "Sanctuary"
	Midsomer Murders	Sandra Tate	Episode: "Dead in the Water"
2005	The Golden Hour	Kate Murray	Episode: "Series 1, Episode 4"
	Doctors	Terri Fisher	Episode: "Secrets & Lies"
2006	The Bill	Dawn Swanson	Episode: "Long Lost Conscience"
	Heartbeat	Anita Hudson	Episode: "Little White Lies"
2007	Five Days	Councillor Mrs. Hull	Episode: "Day Thirty Three"
	My Family	Joanna Draper	Episode: "Breaking Up Ain't Hard to Do"
2008	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Bessie Burch	Episode: "Mrs McGinty's Dead"
2011	Holby City	Julia Calder	Episode: "Love Thy Neighbour"
2012	Silent Witness	Trudie	Episode: "And Then I Fell in Love"
2013	Holby City	Katherine Howards	Episode: "Old Wounds"
2014	Doctors	Julie Daniels	Episode: "Judgement Day"
2016	Goodnight Sweetheart	Yvonne Sparrow	Episode: "Many Happy Returns"
	Doctors	Kate Croft	Episode: "Sins of the Father"
2018	Still Open All Hours	Mrs. Machin	Episode: "Series 5, Episode 2"
2019–2021	The Stand Up Sketch Show	Various	5 episodes

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes
1988	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Snow White	Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge
1989	Apples	Delilah	Royal Court Theatre, London
	Blue Heart	Dawn	National Theatre Studio, London
1990	The Fantasticks	Luisa	Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London
Much Ado About Nothing	Ursula	Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London
1991	The Marriage of Figaro	Fanchette	Watford Palace Theatre, Watford
1992	The Fastest Clock in the Universe	Sherbert Gravel	Hampstead Theatre, London
	Once a Catholic	Mary McGinty	Tricycle Theatre, London
1993	The Deep Blue Sea	Ann Welch	Almeida Theatre, London
	Somewhere	Linda	Liverpool Playhouse Studio, Liverpool
	The Neighbour		National Theatre Studio, London
	Poison Pen	Juliette Smith	Royal Exchange, Manchester
1994	The Birthday Party	Lulu	Lyttelton Theatre, London
1996	Grace Note		The Old Vic, London
2001	The Servant	Susan	Lyric Theatre, London
2003	Accidental Death of an Anarchist	Journalist	Donmar Warehouse, London
2010	Hay Fever	Myra Arundel	West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
2011	Sixty-Six Books - In the Land of Uz		Bush Theatre, London
2014	Variation on a Theme	Mona	Finborough Theatre, London
2015	Ivanov	Martha Babakina	Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
2017	Sweet Bird of Youth	Miss Lucy	Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
	The Lady in the Van	Pauline	Theatre Royal, Bath
2019	A Woman of No Importance	Mrs. Allonby	Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham	also, UK tour

References

1. "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
2. Dorney, Kate; Gray, Frances (February 2013). Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays. Methuen Drama. p. 146. ISBN 978-1408164808.
3. Churchill 'Rolf Harris' TV ad - 30 sec advert Archived 23 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine, www.tellyads.com. Accessed 24 May 2009.
4. Full casting announced for Sweet Bird of Youth Archived 28 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Chichester Festival Theatre. Accessed 2 May 2017.

External links

• Emma Amos at IMDb