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Amanda Jane Mealing (born 22 April 1967) is an English actress best known for playing Connie Beauchamp in the BBC One medical drama series Holby City.
[edit] Early lifeThe only adopted member of her family, Mealing was the youngest of four children, with two sisters and an elder brother.[3] She grew up in Dulwich, South London, with her adoption never being a secret.[3] Although very much part of a strong and loving family, she was always aware that she looked nothing like her siblings and was left feeling that she didn't quite fit in.[3] Despite a yearning to know more about her biological parents, Mealing was concerned that looking for them would upset her family.[3] When she was 18, Mealing's brother died after experimenting with heroin. Although Stephen was 14 years her senior, they were very close and it affected her deeply. Realising that "life can be short… there’s no point sitting around", she was influenced to "go out and live each day.” [3] [edit] CareerOriginally known as Mandy Mealing, her first professional performance was in a Julie Andrews special on BBC television at the age of six. She then started Saturday classes at the Italia Conti Academy, before enrolling full-time at the age on nine. 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 BBC1 children's drama series Grange Hill.[3] Mealing appeared in The Darling Buds of May, Four Weddings and a Funeral, In Deep, The Bill, Midsomer Murders, and Delise in the 1990 mini series The Gravy Train. She played Ruth Manning in the first series of Russell T Davies' 1920s period drama series The Grand in 1997, and JoJo in Jimmy McGovern's The Lakes in 1999. Mealing has appeared as Cardiothoracic Consultant Connie Beauchamp in BBC One's medical drama series Holby City since 1 June 2004.[4] [edit] Personal lifeMarried to screenwriter Richard Sainsbury since 1998, they have two sons — Milo James (born 1999) and Otis Joe (born 2002) — and live on a farm in Lincolnshire.[5] Paul O'Grady and Charlie Condou are close friends of Mealing and are godfathers to her sons. She has appeared on The Paul O'Grady Show on several occasions, sometimes with Milo and Otis. After the birth of her first son, the desire to find out more about her background became "hard to ignore"; she also wanted Milo to "know his heritage".[3] Investigations took Mealing to New York, where she eventually found her birth mother, a model for Biba in London during the swinging sixties.[3] She discovered that her biological father was a half-Sierra Leonean poet and activist.[3] She gets on well with her mother and takes the children to visit her in New York but, sadly, her father died some years earlier.[3] However, she learnt that she has a sister, a year younger, also adopted in England.[3] Her sister didn't know of the relationship until she was 16, but had watched Mealing in Grange Hill, with people saying 'you look like that girl on TV'. Now close, when they first met their similarities were unbelievable — "we talk the same, walk the same, even our actions are the same".[3] With a desire to reconnect with her roots and acknowledge her father, 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. One child in four will die before they reach five years old."[3] The day after giving birth to her second son, Mealing was diagnosed with breast cancer.[6] She has bared her mastectomy scars and reconstruction on camera to reassure other sufferers that they need not feel shame.[6] She has since made a full recovery.[7] [edit] References
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