![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: June 29, 1962 in London, England, UK Biography: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... Full Biography
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