Oh, surely not? Kind, sweet, bubbly nurse Robyn from Casualty, cast as an Ugly Sister?
The role of panto mean girl in the Norwich Theatre Royal’s Cinderella seems so out of character for one of the lynchpins of Holby City Hospital’s accident and emergency department.
But actress Amanda Henderson laughs: “I love a challenge and I am sure I have a nasty side to me somewhere deep in there! I am excited to play a little bit of nasty.”
For the past seven years Amanda has brought the role of Robyn Miller to our Saturday night TV screens. She was seen as “the baby of the Casualty family” for the first few years as her character found her feet within the accident and emergency department at Holby City Hospital. But since then Robyn has been on a rollercoaster of storylines – finding Glen Thomas, the love of her life, only to be dumped by him at the altar after he realised he was dying of a brain tumour; discovering she was pregnant and giving birth in a graveyard. Oh, and then, the return of her absent fiance; they eventually made their peace and married, before having a terrible car crash and he dies . . . all of this alongside the usual weekly ups and downs of life in Casualty.
“It was all such an incredibly emotional time,” says Amanda. “And Owain Arthur, who played Glen, was a dream to work with. Amanda Mealing, who plays Connie Beachamp, was directing the episode when Glen died and she was just wonderful. I cried solidly on set, just crying buckets, and everyone in the crew was in tears.
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