Amanda Jane Mealing (born 22 April 1967) is an English actress, director and producer, known for portraying the role of Connie Beauchamp in the BBC medical dramas Holby City and Casualty.
[4] Originally known as Mandy Mealing, her first professional performance was in a Julie Andrews special on BBC television at the age of six.
Parts in Just William, The Morecambe & Wise Show and Premiere followed, before she was cast as comprehensive-school pupil Tracy Edwards in Phil Redmond's long-running BBC One children's drama series Grange Hill.
[4] Mealing appeared in The Darling Buds of May, Four Weddings and a Funeral, In Deep, Capital City, The Bill, Midsomer Murders, and Delise in the 1990 mini series The Gravy Train.
[6] On 16 July 2010, Mealing appeared on ITV's The Five O'Clock Show with Jason Donovan and Corrine Bailey Rae.
On 29 March 2014, Mealing reprised her role as Connie Beauchamp in Holby City's sister show Casualty.
[10] In 2021, while on her extended break from Casualty, Mealing joined the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as a director.
[4] Investigations took Mealing to New York, where she eventually found her birth mother, a model for Biba in London during the swinging sixties.
With a desire to reconnect with her roots and acknowledge her father, and as an ambassador, Mealing has worked with Save the Children in Sierra Leone.
She filmed a documentary about Kroo Bay — a slum built on the rubbish discarded by Freetown — saying: "It's the worst place in the world you could grow up as child.