Amy Phillips played sassy Jessica in Grange Hill from 1994-1998. And
since then her acting career hasn't looked back!
DOB: 20 August 1978
HEIGHT: 5ft 5in
EYES: Green
THEATRE: GAS AND
AIR (One-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival - 2001)
TV: Jessica Arnold
in GRANGE HILL (BBC 1994-98); Miranda Lawson in KAVANAGH
QC (Central 1996); Young Jean Templar in A DANCE TO
THE MUSIC OF TIME (C4 1997); Lady Elizabeth de Gossard
in KNIGHT SCHOOL (Granada 1997-98); A DANCE TO THE MUSIC
OF TIME (1997); ANYTHING'S POSSIBLE (Channel 5 1998);
Abby Watts in THE BILL (Thames 1999); Sophie in HARBOUR
LIGHTS (BBC 1999); MY FAMILY (BBC 2000); Beth Partridge
in RESCUE ME (BBC 2002): Paramedic in ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS
(BBC 2003); ACCORDING TO BEX (BBC 2005)
FILMS: Ellen in WHAT RATS
WON'T DO (1998); Sarah from Brighton in THE MISADVENTURES OF
MARGARET (1998); PARANOID (2000); GLOBAL HERESY (2001); Jasmine
in MY OTHER WHEELCHAIR IS A PORSCHE (2001); Julia in THE FREEDIVER
(2004)
AMY ON JESSICA... "I
used to think I wasn't much like her," Amy says. "She
was spirited and smart which I liked, but I hope I'm a bit
more laid back! Grange Hill is very close to my heart; it
was my first professional engagement and I have many happy
memories of my time there."
POINT OF INTEREST: Amy changed
her surname in September 1997, because of Equity rules which
state no two actors can use the same name. Several Grange Hill
stars have done this over the years; others include Mark Eadie
(formerly Mark Chapman) and Fiona Lee-Fraser (Fiona Mogridge).
