Hell Yeah Amanda Hale

An appreciation blog dedicated to two-times Evening Standard Award nominee Amanda Hale, who has graced our television screens in shows such as The White Queen, Ripper Street and The Crimson Petal and the White. This blog has no affiliation with Amanda (but totally wouldn't mind to – if you're reading along, Amanda, hit us up, we would literally sleep in a box on the street to work for you (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧).

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you would never guess, it’s too juicy…

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On 22 August 1485, Lady Margaret Beaufort’s only son, Henry Tudor, defeated King Richard III and his Yorkist army at the Battle of Bosworth Field thus ending the Wars of the Roses and becoming King Henry VII of England. It is widely believed that Margaret’s relentless belief in him and promotion of his interests largely influenced Henry’s success.

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‘I don’t even call it a career, it’s like a collection of jobs, I don’t have a trajectory at all. - Amanda Hale

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Amanda Hale as Margaret Beaufort in The White Queen - 2013

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Amanda Hale as Margaret Beaufort in The White Queen - 2013

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favorite fictional ladies | margaret beaufort (the white queen) "You may stay down on your knees. I am the king’s mother. And you shall kneel to me as to a queen."

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Margaret had survived the dangers of her son’s birth. She had helped protect him during the years that followed, and risked her own life to conspire on his behalf against Richard III. In promoting her son as king, she had sacrificed her own superior claim to the throne. […]  In the post-Reformation England of the seventeenth century Margaret’s spirituality came to be judged mere superstition and her i n t e l l i g e n c e and t o u g h n e s s of character were regarded with equal suspicion. […] That Margaret was responsible for the princes’ deaths is a theory becoming fashionable again and remains linked to cultural p r e j u d i c e s. Margaret’s support for her son had been construed as those of an obsessively ambitious mother, yet for her generation she was fulfilling a d u t y. She was honour bound to help him regain his rightful inheritance, and later to help him restore the House of Lancaster, into which she had been born.

Leanda de Lisle - Tudor: the Family Story { x }

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Amanda Hale attends the after party for The Nether at The Duke of York’s Theatre, 23/02/2015.

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Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby

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Production photos for the West End transfer of The Nether at the Duke of York’s Theatre (x)

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Interview with Official London Theatre - 05/02/2015

I’m so jealous because I never get to be in it [Es Devlin's set]. I get a sh***y little interrogation room [laughs]. My favourite bit of the show is at the very end when my scene is done, I walk off stage and during the last scene I get to waggle the scenery to make the wind. If they try and take that away from me…

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My Lady, Thomas Stanley.

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Rehearsals for The Domino Heart at The Finborough Theatre