Amanda Abbington

 Amanda Jane Smith, born Amanda Abbington on 28 February 1974 in London) is an English actor from the UK. Her most famous roles include Miss Mardle in. Mr Selfridge and Mary Watson in Sherlock. The BBC adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was broadcast on TV from 2002 until 2007. She also appeared on the TV series Wycliffe and Casualty. She was a comedian sketch actor in the series Man Stroke Woman in 2005 and After You've Go with Nicholas Lyndhurst in 2008. Abbington also appears in recurring series like Bernard's Watch, Case Histories and After You've Gone with Nicholas Lyndhurst. In 2013, she made her debut as Miss Mardle in Mr Selfridge alongside Frances O'Connor and Jeremy Piven. 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 was an BBC TV crime drama, was her first TV appearance. [citation needed] Abbington was on stage in August of 2018 as Annette in God of Carnage, Bath. In 2019 she was cast in the role of Anne in Florian Zeller's production The Son at Kilburn, London[6]. Later that year, she was transferred to The Duke of York's Theatre in London’s West End.