Amanda Douge
Amanda Douge is an Australian actress, theatre-maker, writer, and doctoral researcher known for her versatile career spanning film, television, stage performances, and academic work on climate transformations.
Early life and education
Douge was born in Melbourne in 1976, and studied law at Melbourne University. She has a Masters of Letters in Creative Writing and is a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow.She has extensively studied the Michael Chekhov technique.
Career
Douge's first on-screen was in an episode of The Flying Doctors in 1990. Shortly afterwards, she appeared as Annabelle Deacon in 8 episodes of Neighbours. She eventually secured regular roles in TV series' Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left as the voice of Dovis, The Man from Snowy River as Victoria Blackwood and Raw FM as Gerry Sano, she also played Kylen Celina in Fox's Space Above and Beyond. From 2002 to 2003 she had a recurring role as Jennifer, a medical colleague of Alex and Rex on The Secret Life of Us.She has also appeared on film, as Nellie Bolster in Hammers Over the Anvil, Elloise Noble in Body Melt and most notably as Tegwyn Flack in the film adaptation of Tim Winton' novel, That Eye, The Sky, a role for which she won a Best Supporting Actress award at the Australian Film Institute Awards.
Douge has performed with the Melbourne Theatre Company, La Mama Theatre and Malthouse Theatre. In 2002, she founded the Hoist Theatre Group, an ensemble which produced four critically acclaimed plays in Australia.
Douge has been based in the UK since 2005. Her first role after moving to London was appearing with David Suchet in Poirot: Taken at the Flood.
She became interested in arts education and has taught drama in the UK, at Blackheath Conservatoire. From 2016-2023 Douge ran a local children's theatre ensemble from Mycenae House, Greenwich.
She played Becky Gallagher, the mentally ill twin sister of Dr. Jack Gallagher on the US Foz drama Mental.
Douge appeared in two episodes of Hijack, starring Idris Elba. Douge appears in the series Kaos for Netflix in the role of Andromache.