Amy Beth Hayes

Amy Beth Hayes (born 8 October 1982) is a British actress. She is best known for her roles as Kitty in Mr Selfridge; Lucy in "The Entire History of You", an episode of Black Mirror; Ruth in Misfits; Clem in Shameless; Amy in The Syndicate; and Maxine Fox in Sirens. She has also appeared in Doctor Who and Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

Early life
Hayes was born in Abergavenny, Wales, but grew up in Darlington, County Durham, England. Her first taste of acting was as a 14 year old at the National Youth Theatre, she joined a course with much older students and decided to pursue acting as a possible career path. However, first she chose the academic route, studying English Literature and Language at Keble College, Oxford. After graduating, she enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama for three years.

Career
Hayes career started with a 4 month stay in Romania, filming Eva, later released in 2009. Her screen debut came in 2008, in Doctor Who, episode "The Stolen Earth", and the same year she was cast in a lead role in the ITV drama Whatever It Takes.

Hayes appeared in the 2009 Romanian film Eva, and in Micro Men, a BBC-made film charting the rise and fall of the home computer industry in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, where she played Cynthia alongside Martin Freeman. In 2009, she played Ruth, an old woman restored temporarily to her younger self by a peculiar thunder storm, in E4's superhero comedy-drama Misfits.

In 2011 she played Lucy in "The Entire History of You", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror created by Charlie Brooker. In 2012, she starred in BBC drama The Syndicate, alongside Timothy Spall, playing the girlfriend of one of the lottery winners.

From 2012, she appeared in the ITV drama Mr Selfridge as Kitty Hawkins Edwards. In 2013, she appeared as Rosemary in the Norwegian comedy-gangster television series Lilyhammer, alongside Steve van Zandt.

In 2019, Hayes played Charlotte Bellinge in an episode of the Acorn TV series Agatha Raisin. In 2020, she played the role of Lady Trowbridge in Netflix's Bridgerton. In 2021, she starred in Lenny Henry's Three Little Birds .

Theatre
In 2008, Hayes appeared in On the Waterfront directed by Steven Berkoff. She received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards for her work in True Love Lies (2009), at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. She appeared in Jerusalem in 2010, with Mark Rylance, and in Linda at the Royal Court Theatre (2015–2016). and  Hayes received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards for her work in True Love Lies at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.