Emma Amos trained at the
Royal College of Music from 1982 to 1989, and in 1991 she landed a part in the British film ''
Buddy's Song''. Designed as a vehicle for the rising pop-singer
Chesney Hawkes, the film also starred
Roger Daltrey of rock band
the Who as Terry, Buddy's dad. Amos was cast as Dawn, Terry's girlfriend, but only featured in a few brief scenes. Amos's first television role was playing 'Phoebe' the talking phone in the children's series
Wizadora. She starred in 8 episodes in 1991 for Oxford Press before the series was picked up by ITV and Phoebe was re-introduced as a model phone. She starred in an episode of long-running sit-com
Men Behaving Badly, playing the part of Mandy, the annoying girlfriend of Tony's brother, in the episode "
People Behaving Irritatingly". Following a variety of supporting-part roles, Amos starred alongside
Nicholas Lyndhurst in the time-travel sitcom
Goodnight Sweetheart. Replacing
Michelle Holmes midway through the show's 6 series run, Emma took on the role of time-travelling bigamist Gary Sparrow's 1990s wife, Yvonne. Since then, Amos has appeared in a range of British television series, including
Casualty,
A Touch of Frost,
Peak Practice,
Midsomer Murders,
The Bill,
My Family and
Doctors. She has also appeared in
Heartbeat, in which she played Anita Hudson in the episode
"Little White Lies," as well as having been seen in the feature films
Vera Drake and ''
Bridget Jones's Diary. Amos played Julie Davies in The Last Detective''. In January 2009, she appeared in a Churchill Insurance TV commercial. In 2016 it was announced that Amos, as well as her daughter Esme Coy, would appear in a one-off special return of
Goodnight Sweetheart. In June 2017, Amos appeared in the
Chichester Festival Theatre production of
Sweet Bird of Youth by
Tennessee Williams. ==Filmography==