Amanda Abbington

 Amanda Abbington (born Amanda Jane Smith born 28 February 1974) is an English actress from England. Her most well-known role is Miss Mardle I. Mr Selfridge and Mary Watson in Sherlock. The BBC adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was broadcast in TV from 2002 until 2007. During that time she also played in the TV series Wycliffe, Casualty, Dream Team, The Sins, Shades, Doc Martin, Coupling, and Teachers. She was a sketch comedian star on Man Stroke Woman in 2005 and After You've Gone, which aired in 2008 with Nicholas Lyndhurst. She also appeared in the series that recur, such as Bernard's Watch and Case Histories.In 2013 she started appearing on the television show Mr Selfridge as Miss Mardle with Jeremy Piven and Frances O'Connor. In 2014, Abbington appeared in the third series of Sherlock as Mary Morstan, the wife of John Watson, played by her real-life companion Martin Freeman. Cuffs, the BBC TV crime drama series, was her first appearance. [citation neededThe series aired on BBC in 2015. Abbington was seen on stage in August of 2018 in the role of Annette in God of Carnage, Bath. In 2019 she portrayed the character of Anne in Florian Zeller's play The Son at Kilburn, London[66. The following year, she was transferred to The Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End.