Line of Duty star looks completely different in BBC comedy Amandaland

A acquainted look from BBC’s Line of Duty and Doctor Who has a starring relation successful the Motherland rotation disconnected drama bid Amandaland, alongside stars Lucy Punch and Joanna Lumley

Actress Rochenda Sandall, who is champion known for her relation successful the gritty constabulary play bid Line of Duty, looks precise antithetic successful her latest role.

The Grimsby-born actress, who played Lisa McQueen successful the archetypal bid of the bull thriller, is 1 of the leads successful the caller drama bid Amandaland. Following connected from the deed amusement Motherland, which ran for 3 series, Amandaland picks up the communicative of now-divorced Amanda (Lucy Punch) arsenic she starts a caller beingness with her kids successful South Harlesden successful London. Rochenda co-stars arsenic 1 of Amanda’s caller friends, Fi, and with highlighted hairsbreadth and a cosy anorak, looks worlds distant from Organised Crime Group subordinate Lisa McQueen, who had tightly pulled backmost hairsbreadth and wore a terrible polo cervix during her clip arsenic 1 of Line of Duty’s astir memorable criminals.

Rochenda’s TV vocation began with roles successful Coronation Street and Doctors earlier she appeared successful Black Mirror, Silent Witness and Line of Duty. She has since appeared arsenic a Sith serviceman successful Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker, successful Steve McQueen’s acclaimed Small Axe, successful the bid The Rig and arsenic Azure successful six episodes of the 13th bid of Doctor Who, alongside Jodie Whittaker.

Amandaland, which begins connected BBC One connected Wednesday 5 February, besides stars Joanna Lumley arsenic Amanda’s parent Felicity, Philippa Dunne arsenic long-suffering pal Anne and Gavin & Stacey’s Samuel Anderson arsenic Mal. Anna Maxwell Martin, who starred arsenic Julia successful Motherland, has confirmed she volition not beryllium appearing successful the caller series.

Tanya Qureshi, Head of Comedy astatine the BBC said: “We can’t hold for audiences to spot Amanda’s caller chapter, brought to beingness by specified a talented formed and a wonderfully crisp acceptable of characters. It’s going to beryllium a existent treat.”

The bid is created by Bad Sisters prima Sharon Horgan, on with chap Motherland creators Holly Walsh, Helen Serafinowicz and Barunka O'Shaughnessy. Sharon said: “I was genuinely bittersweet having to accidental goodbye to Motherland. There's specified a fondness for that amusement and those characters. So it was a existent thrill to get to prime up the further adventures of Amanda and Anne, not to notation Felicity. Lucy, Phillipa and Joanna are apical of their crippled successful these roles and are joined by an incredibly comic and talented caller cast. Can't hold to showcase the adjacent challenges of parenthood and the precise peculiar benignant of relationship the schoolhouse gates bring.”

The caller bid begins arsenic Amanda downsizes from leafy Queen’s Park to South Harlesden successful London, which the property cause calls SoHa, perchance to detract from the information that it’s adjacent to Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Her 2 children, Manus and Georgie, are some astatine secondary school, truthful Amanda is present dealing with horrors specified arsenic teenage drinking, fake Instagram accounts and eco anxiety. And her mother, Felicity, is ne'er acold away, nor is aged person Anne, who has someway been sucked backmost into Amanda’s beingness to assistance her navigate the societal country astatine the children’s caller school.

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