Amanda Mealing

On 26 February 2016, when being interviewed on This Morning, Mealing was asked about directing, and about her directing three episodes of Casualty. She also directed a short film titled Another Man's Shoes. In 2019, Mealing directed an episode of CBBC series The Dumping Ground.

Since 2015, Mealing has been a Patron to the Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes.

On 29 March 2014, Mealing reprised her role as Connie Beauchamp, but in Holby City's sister show Casualty, in which her character quickly rose to the role of emergency department deputy clinical lead and later clinical lead.

After the birth of her first son, the desire to find out more about her background became "hard to ignore"; she also wanted him to "know his heritage". Investigations took Mealing to New York, where she eventually found her birth mother, a model for Biba in London during the swinging sixties. She discovered that her biological father was a half-Ghanaian poet and activist. She gets on well with her mother and takes the children to visit her in New York but her father died some years earlier. She also found out that she has a sister, a year younger, also adopted in Britain. Her sister did not know of the relationship until she was 16, but had watched Mealing in Grange Hill, with people saying 'you look like that girl on TV'. Now close, when they first met their similarities were unbelievable — "we talk the same, walk the same, even our actions are the same".

With a desire to reconnect with her roots and acknowledge her father, and as an ambassador, Mealing has worked with Save the Children in Sierra Leone. She filmed a documentary about Kroo Bay — a slum built on the rubbish discarded by Freetown — saying: "It’s the worst place in the world you could grow up as child. One child in four will die before they reach five years old."

On 16 July 2010, Mealing appeared on ITV's The Five O'Clock Show with Jason Donovan and Corrine Bailey Rae. In 2011, Mealing appeared in the Sky1 series Strike Back: Project Dawn as Colonel Eleanor Grant. In 2013, Mealing appeared in an episode of the BBC series Death in Paradise. Mealing also appeared in the latest series of ITV's Law and Order: UK playing a solicitor.

The day after giving birth to her second son, Mealing was diagnosed with breast cancer. Mealing was asked to be an ambassador for Breast Cancer Care in early 2010. She has developed a close bond with the charity. "When I was diagnosed the first leaflet I received was from Breast Cancer Care. They have been there for me ever since. I am deeply honoured to be given a chance to give something back to them." After losing a close friend to breast cancer early the same year Amanda decided to dedicate a JustGiving page to raise money in memory of her friend. She ran the 2012 London Marathon on her 45th birthday for Breast Cancer Care.

Mealing appeared as cardiothoracic consultant Connie Beauchamp in BBC One's BAFTA award winning medical drama series Holby City from 1 June 2004 to 28 December 2010, announcing her decision to quit Holby City in October 2010, filming her final scenes in October and her departure seeing her resigning from her position at the hospital.

Mealing has been married to screenwriter Richard Sainsbury since 1998, they have two sons, Otis and Milo, and they live on a farm in Lincolnshire. Paul O'Grady and Charlie Condou are close friends of Mealing and are godfathers to her sons. She has appeared on The Paul O'Grady Show on several occasions, sometimes with her sons.

Mealing appeared in The Darling Buds of May, Four Weddings and a Funeral, In Deep, Capital City, The Bill, Midsomer Murders, and Delise in the 1990 mini series The Gravy Train. She appeared in the TV miniseries, Jake's Progress, as Robert Lindsay's love interest, in 1995. She played Ruth Manning in the first series of Russell T Davies' 1920s period drama series The Grand in 1997, and JoJo in Jimmy McGovern's The Lakes in 1999. Alan Bleasdale wrote the part of Katie in "Jake's Progress" for Amanda after working with her on GBH.

Amanda Jane Mealing (born 22 April 1967) is an English actress, known for portraying the role of Connie Beauchamp in the BBC medical dramas Holby City and Casualty.