Amy Shindler is a British actress and television writer best known for her portrayal of Brenda Tucker in the UK's long running soap opera, The Archers.
Brenda was notable in the show for her struggles with her boss, Matt Crawford, her long engagement to Tom Archer and her decision not to have children in order to devote herself to her career.
Since then she has had her own sitcom series Pat and Cabbage on ITV1 with sometime writing partner, Beth Chalmers, and has written on comedies such as Threesome, Trollied and Horrible Histories.
[5] She and Chalmers are the creators, writers and executive producers of three series of the New Zealand based drama, Mystic, broadcast on CBBC in 2021 and 2022.
In 2012 she was invited on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends to discuss an erotic spoof book, Fifty Shelves of Grey, which she co-authored with three other writers under the pseudonym, ‘Vanessa Parody’.