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Amanda Burton (born 10 October 1956) is an award-winning actress from Northern Ireland. Burton is best known for her high-profile television roles as Karen Fisher in Waterloo Road (BBC), Sam Ryan in the BBC crime drama series Silent Witness, Clare Blake in The Commander, Beth Glover in Peak Practice, and Heather Black in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. Burton was born in Derry, Northern Ireland. She is the youngest of four girls. Her father was a primary school headmaster. After attending the Londonderry High School (now part of Foyle and Londonderry College) she moved to England at 18... MORE

Amanda Burton (born 10 October 1956) is an award-winning actress from Northern Ireland. Burton is best known for her high-profile television roles as Karen Fisher in Waterloo Road (BBC), Sam Ryan in the BBC crime drama series Silent Witness, Clare Blake in The Commander, Beth Glover in Peak Practice, and Heather Black in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. Burton was born in Derry, Northern Ireland. She is the youngest of four girls. Her father was a primary school headmaster. After attending the Londonderry High School (now part of Foyle and Londonderry College) she moved to England at 18 where she spent three years studying drama at the Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre. Whilst there she met theatre technician Jonathan Hartley, whom she married when she was 20. Although best known for her television roles, Burton had worked almost exclusively in the theatre prior to landing the role of Heather Black in Channel 4's Liverpool-based flagship drama series Brookside. After nearly four years in the role, during which time Heather had become one of the show's most-popular residents of Brookside Close, she began to lose sympathy with her character and decided to leave. Following LESS