Irene Amanda Burton is a Northern Irish actress. Although best known for her television roles, Burton had worked almost exclusively in the theatre prior to landing the role of Heather Haversham in Channel 4’s Liverpool-based flagship drama series Brookside.
Is Amanda Burton Married?
In 1976 Burton married theatre technician Jonathan Hartley, whom she met while at the Manchester School of Theatre. T
hey divorced in 1982. She married professional photographer Sven Arnstein in 1989, and the couple had two daughters, Phoebe Marie (born 1989) and Brid Irina (born 1991), before divorcing in 2004. Burton currently lives in Hastings, East Sussex.
Burton is an ambassador for The Children’s Trust, the UK’s leading charity for children with brain injury and neuro disability. In 1993, Burton starred alongside Kevin Whately in Peak Practice. S
he played the role of Doctor Beth Glover in the medical drama series, based in Derbyshire’s Peak District, for three series until her departure in 1995. In 1996 she then took the main role of Professor Sam Ryan in the highly acclaimed BBC drama Silent Witness; she held this role until 2004.
