Irene Amanda Burton is a Northern Irish actress. Although best known for her television roles, Burton had worked almost exclusively in the theatre prior to landing the role of Heather Haversham in Channel 4’s Liverpool-based flagship drama series Brookside.
What nationality is Amanda Burton?
Amanda Burton is Irish by nationality. Burton was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, the youngest of four sisters. Her father, Arthur Burton, was a primary school headmaster at Ballougry Primary School, which she attended as a child.
She was raised at Ballougry, a rural townland on the southwestern outskirts of Derry City, where her family lived in a house beside Ballougry Primary School, right beside County Londonderry’s boundary with County Donegal.
In 1976 Burton married theatre technician Jonathan Hartley, whom she met while at the Manchester School of Theatre. They divorced in 1982.
She married professional photographer Sven Arnstein in 1989, and the couple had two daughters, Phoebe Marie (born 1989) and Brid Irina (born 1991), before divorcing in 2004. Burton currently lives in Hastings, East Sussex.