Bio
Amanda Abbington (born 1974) is an English actess best known for her starring role as Siobhan Casey in the television sitcom After You've Gone, from 2007-2008.
She also has a starring role as Selfridges' head of accessories, Miss Josie Mardle, who runs her department with discipline, fairness and confidence, in the period drama television series Mr Selfridge.
Other television work includes a lead role in two seasons of the acclaimed BBC Three sketch show Man Stroke Woman, as well as roles in Booze Cruise II and III, The Robinsons, Derailed, Teachers and Coupling.
Abbington and longtime partner Martin Freeman (Sherlock, The Hobbit) met on the set of a movie called Men Only in 2000. They and their two children live in Hertfordshire, north of London.