
Amanda Pays was born in London. Her parents are Howard Pays, an actor and show business agent as well as Jan Miller. An aunt, Mandy Miller, won fame as the child star of the '50s film Crash of Silence (1952) . At the age of eight, Pays started school at an in-between convent. It was there that she showcased her abilities as an actress. With a distinctively booming voice she was always being cast in the male roles in school productions. Following the advice of her mother, Amanda sent a Polaroid picture to a modeling agent and quickly found herself having a lucrative career that was for the next four years, took her all over the world. At twenty-two she became exhausted of "clotheshorsing" which is why she decided to go into acting. The intense training at London's Academy of Live and Recorded Arts brought her to her debut on stage opposite George Segal in The Cold Room (1984) which was an HBO production directed and written by James Dearden, who later wrote Fatal Attraction (1987). Pays has been seen on television, screen and stage in England and America since then. Her credits include the London fringe show "Fire Eaters," Thames Television's Minder: Minder on the Orient Express (1985), Lady Victoria in Oxford Blues (1984) opposite Rob Lowe, as the host of the ground-breaking television series Max Headroom (1987), Max Headroom (1985), as Sarah in the ABC miniseries A.D. (1985), in the miniseries A.D. (1985), alongside Ava Gardner and James Mason and as Sister Nicole in Off Limits (1988), with Willem Dafoe as the lead as well as Gregory Hines.
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