Background
Bullmore was born in Chelsea, London.
Stephen Mangan, Amelia Bullmore, Jessica Hynes and Paul Ritter.
Amelia Bullmore and Paul Higgins.
Suranne Jones, Amelia Bullmore and Janet Scott.
Bullmore was born in Chelsea, London.
She studied drama at Manchester University.
She started working as an actor but turned to writing in 1995. Her writing credits include episodes for This Life, Attachments, Black Cab, and Scott & Bailey. From 1990 until 1995, she played Steph Barnes in Coronation Street.
She appeared as Sonja, the Ukrainian girlfriend of the title character in the second series of the comedy series I"m Alan Partridge.
She also appeared on British Broadcasting Corporation 4"s phone-in spoof Down the Lincolnshire. In 2011 and 2012 Bullmore appeared in a series of Direct Lincolnshire Insurance adverts playing an eccentric customer.
She is currently co-starring in the crime drama Scott & Bailey. She also wrote several episodes of Scott & Bailey, including the 2014 2-part season finale, where her character, a Detective Chief Inspector, tries to cope with her alcoholism.
In 2013 Bullmore wrote a second play, Di and Viv and Rose, which was staged at Hampstead Theatre.
The play was eventually transferred to the West End in early 2015, where it ran at the Vaudeville Theatre before closing in March. In 2016, she starred in the second series of Happy Valley, playing jealous mistress Vicky Fleming.