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Good Neighbours (1984)
Character: Elaine (as Mandy Mealing)
Lorrie's father is keen on the idea of an anti-crime Neighbourhood Watch, but Lorrie has his doubts. A play for the BBC schools anthology Scene written by Leslie Stewart.
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Story Without a Hero (1979)
Character: Karen (as Mandy Mealing)
When Hell's Angels hit Muriel's seaside town she grabs daughter Karen and follows. Years ago her husband rode away on his bike and left her, but it's always possible that she might find him - or someone! As it happens both mother and daughter have unexpected encounters
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Blood on the Dole (1994)
Character: Laura
Alan Bleasdale's touching yet frank drama for Channel 4 about the struggles of a group of young adults leaving school in a deprived area of Liverpool. Starring Stephen Walters, Suzanne Maddock and Amanda Mealing. Based on the acclaimed play by Jim Morris, voted Most Promising Playwright by the Financial Times and Morning Star in 1981. Blood on the Dole shows the lives of four teenagers, two boys and two girls, struggling to cope after being thrust into the real world for the first time after leaving school. Living in deprived Merseyside, the four youths' bright-eyed optimism for their futures and new-found freedom is soon crushed by the realities of unemployment, poverty, and the brutal reality of living and trying to find work in a city in decline. They all soon find themselves in the hopeless situation of facing complete dependence on state handouts, "the dole". The four teenagers instead find themselves turning to each other to find the strength to survive.
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Bucky (2014)
Character: Newsreader
A story seen from the eyes of a five-year-old boy who, through no fault of his own, comes face to face with disaster.
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My Brother David (1989)
Character: Elaine (Scene: Good Neighbours - Archive footage) (Uncredited)
David Scarboro, who played Mark Fowler in EastEnders (1985), fell to his death at Beachy Head in 1988. Simon, his younger brother, presents this tribute, featuring David's achievements as a young actor as well as his problems.
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Lie with Me (2004)
Character: Carolyn Henson
In this made-for-television thriller, Roselyn Tyler (Eve Best) awakens in her London flat with no memory of the previous night. She discovers that she was drugged and sexually assaulted -- and her roommate is dead. When investigating cop Will Tomlinson (Andrew Lincoln) can't make the charges stick against the prime suspect (Paul McCann), he and Roselyn scheme to put him behind bars. But she soon learns that lies have hazardous consequences.
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The Girl with Brains in Her Feet (1997)
Character: Vivienne Jones
A 13 year old talented athlete struggles to come to terms with the traumas of life as she prepares for a very important athletics event.
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Running Late (1992)
Character: Betsy Grant
Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.
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Requiem Apache (1994)
Character: Marilyn
Alan Bleasdale's comic crime caper for Channel 4 about a former getaway driver desperate to leave his life of crime behind. Featuring Alfred Molina, David Ross, Amanda Mealing, Andrew Schofield and Julie Walters. Raymond Murtagh's Requim Apache tells the story of Hamish, who was once one of the criminal underworld's best getaway drivers. Now a new father and retired to the Suffolk countryside, he has to watch the baby at home alone. However, Hamish's peaceful and idyllic new life is shattered when his past rears its ugly head once again, and the old gang comes over for a visit. They make him an offer he dare not refuse to take on one last bank job. However, with no babysitter available, he is forced to take the baby with him.
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Grushko (1994)
Character: Tanya
A restaurant is fire-bombed, a TV journalist and a member of a local mafia are murdered, and a valuable statuette is stolen. Yevgeni Grushko is Head of the Mafia Investigations Division of the local police force, facing new challenges as the internicine gang rivalries escalate towards war on the streets.
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Retribution (2017)
Character: Captain Whittard
A hardened debt-collector goes on a 24-hour rampage through London in an attempt to avenge the brutal attack on his teenage daughter.
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Still (2015)
Character: Rachel
Tom Carver is a man stumbling blindly towards a crossroad in his life, thrown out of focus by the death of his teenage son a year earlier. He becomes involved in a feud with a teenage gang after a seemingly harmless collision with a young kid. As the feud becomes more horrifying, Carver's world starts to unravel forcing him to make decisions that will change his life forever.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Character: Naughty Nicki - Wedding Two
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
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