Amanda Billing
Biography
Amanda Bridgid Billing is a New Zealand actress born on April 12, 1976, in Masterton, New Zealand. She is best known for playing Doctor Sarah Potts on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. Billing grew up in Masterton and spent her university years in Christchurch. She graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in geography, then trained at the Christchurch College of Education to become a high school teacher. Throughout her teaching years, she was involved in drama and acted in amateur stage productions such as Cloud Nine and The Country Wife. She worked at several schools throughout Auckland, where she taught geography, English, and social studies.
Career overview
Amanda Billing is a New Zealand actress born on April 12, 1976, in Masterton, New Zealand. She is best known for her role as Doctor Sarah Potts on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. Prior to her acting career, she grew up in Masterton and spent her university years in Christchurch. She graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Arts with first class honors in Geography, and subsequently trained at the Christchurch College of Education to become a high school teacher.
During her teaching years, Billing remained involved in drama and acted in a few amateur stage productions, including Cloud Nine and The Country Wife. She worked at several schools throughout Auckland teaching Geography, English, and Social Studies. Her professional acting profile includes twelve known credits on screen, establishing her career prominently through her work in television.
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- A Minecraft Movie (2025) as Henry's Mother
- Camp Be Better (2024) as Bliss McCullum
- The Royal Treatment (2022) as Valentina Conti
- Kid Sister (2022) as Keren
- Good Grief (2021) as Moira
- The Bad Seed (2019) as Superintendent Jane Evans
- James Patterson's Murder is Forever (2018) as Kim
- Sui Generis (2017) as Nadja
- #KOMTR (2015)
- The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014) as Brenda White
- Power Rangers (1993) as Principal Hastings
- Power Rangers (1993) as Bajilla (voice)
- Shortland Street (1992) as Sarah Potts