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Amanda Jean Hopkins, best known as Cherry Manda is a former English actress, model and journalist who was active from the years 1983-1994.

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Early Life
''' Cherry Manda was born Amanda Jean Hopkins on the 7th May 1959 to Matilda and Vincent Hopkins in Cambridgeshire. As a child, Manda was a keen student in performing arts at Cambridge Primary School. By twelve, Hopkins was influenced by actresses such as Jane Fonda and Racquel Welch whom later inspired her to go onto being an actress.

Teenhood
As a teenager, Hopkins became "quite a big handful" according to her mother interviewed in 2001. Hopkins would be caught on many occasions smoking behind the school building as well as stealing her grandmother's gin from her cabinet. According to an old friend of Hopkins who prefers to be anonymous, the actress's favourite drink was cherry cola and her old friends in school addressed her as Mandy, hence the name "Cherry Manda" that was thought up of by Hopkins herself in 1977 which soon became her stage name in 1983 where her acting career began.

Career
Cherry Manda's acting career began in 1983 when the twenty-four year old was given a part in Jean-Paul Leroux's acclaimed noir masterpiece, One Sausage Too Far where Manda played the unnamed blonde girl in the rain. After her first part in an independent short film, Manda gained fame in low budget 1980s flicks such as Curse of the Crows and Funfair Funeral. Cherry also starred in low budget televsion series in the 1980s such as "Attack of the lions from Mars" and "Police Chase."

Controversy
Cherry Manda is known for her extensive list of ex husbands and boyfriends. In 1980, Manda married her childhood sweetheart Timothy Wilde on the 18th October. However, Cherry and Wilde moved to LA before the pair divorced due to reports of Manda committing adultery. Thoughout her career, Manda was known for behind under the arm of many stars of the 1980s. However, Manda only married six of her partners. in 1986, Cherry gave birth to her son Terrence on the 16th May. Cherry has many times stated that one of her famous partners she did not marry is the father. The suspected father prefers to remain anonymous on this subject. In 1987, Cherry Manda was arrested for a crime which has been removed from the internet in recent years which was a shock to the whole nation. However, protestors marched the London and LA streets begging to release the actress from jail. She was released twelve months later.

Personal Life
Manda married her childhood sweetheart Timothy Wilde in 1980 before divorcing in 1983. Manda has also married conservative MP John Windsor (1984-1984) who quotes that being married to Manda was a "nightmare", crime author H. R Peters (1987-1988), Gregory Smith (1989-1992), Director Richard Hoff (1994-1996) and Poet Earl Mitts (1995-1998). At fifty eight, Manda has said in a recent interview that she is "engaged to be engaged" with thirty five year old Japanese artist, Hiroshi Aki.