[2] Amanda Elwes and her twin sister Lydia were born to Timothy Cyprian George Thomas Elwes, of East End Farm, Seale, Surrey, and his first wife Lorna, daughter of Captain Ian Archibald de Hoghton Lyle, Black Watch, of the family of the Lyle baronets of Glendelvine.
Another notable role was in 1991 as Marjorie Fisher in A Perfect Hero alongside Nigel Havers, and she continued to be very busy in 1992 with appearances in A Touch of Frost, Miss Marple and a big role in the TV movie Tattle Tale alongside Hollywood stars C. Thomas Howell and Ally Sheedy.
Although Elwes continued to appear on screen in such shows as The Riff Raff Element (1993) and Heartbeat (1994), after this her workload dropped off considerably.
It was during her run on stage in Lady Windermere's Fan in the West End in 1994 that Elwes began to have second thoughts about acting.
[7] Helped financially, she eventually founded Amanda Austin Flowers[8] in 1998, and in 2011 her twin sister Lydia joined her in running the business.