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Sandra Pullman

Sandra Pullman is a highly successful career woman, but her achievements have come at the expense of her personal life.

Job title
Head of Metropolitan Police's Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad
Played by
Amanda Redman

Sandra's work has always been her driving force and she's given it 110%, with little time for anything outside of the job. Until now.

Sandra has never doubted she would achieve her ambitions and climb to the top of the ladder. However, when given the opportunity to go higher, she falters. Ultimately, it's because she realises that actually it's not just about the career, but the fact she adores working with these three guys - they are her friends.

"She's beginning to bend the rules"

Amanda Redman

Amanda's been a TV regular since the 1980s. Her other credits include the Mike Bassett: England Manager film and TV series, and The Blonde Bombshell, where she played the iconic Diana Dors.

Over the years, she's appeared in many detective dramas, including Spender, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Dangerfield and The Sight.

Film roles have included playing Deedee Dove, the ex-porn-star wife of Ray Winstone's character in Sexy Beast.

She played downtrodden-wife-turned-lottery millionaire Alison Braithwaite in three series of ITV drama At Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ With The Braithwaites, as well as Mrs Merdle in the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's adaptation of Charles Dickens classic Little Dorrit in 2008.

Amanda's early roles included appearances in Tales Of The Unexpected, TV adaptations of The Importance Of Being Earnest and Shakespeare's Pericles, and Paul McCartney film vehicle Give My Regards to Broad Street.

Amanda received an MBE in the Queen's birthday honours in June 2012.

More about Amanda Redman

  • Read about Amanda's research into her mother's 'cursed' side of the family, for Who Do You Think You Are?

  • Amanda took on a very different role in 2008, as snobby Mrs Merdle in an adaptation of Dickens classic Little Dorrit

  • Amanda won huge plaudits for her most challenging role yet - reading out poems about vegetables on The One Show

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