Serena Mary Strathearn Gordon (born 3 September 1963) is an English actress. Her roles include Amanda Prosser in police drama ''

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'' and

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evaluator Caroline in 1995

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film ''

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''.

Life and career

Born in

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

, she is the daughter of property consultant Ian Strathearn Gordon, of 19 Campden Grove, London W8, and

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Nicola Mary, daughter of Major Nicholas Norman Norman-Butler, of Cardfields,

Hatfield Peverel Hatfield Peverel is a village and civil parish at the centre of Essex, England. It is located 6 miles (10 km) north-east from Chelmsford, the nearest large city, which it is connected by road and rail. The parish includes the hamlets of ...

, Essex. Ian Gordon's great-grandfather was the Scottish judge and politician Edward Strathearn Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn; the Norman-Butler family were landed gentry, of Bourton House, Berkshire, related to the

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, later created Barons Avebury. Gordon studied at

RADA The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Sena ...

in the same year as

Jane Horrocks Barbara Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964) is a British actress. She portrayed the roles of Bubble and Katy Grin in the BBC sitcom '' Absolutely Fabulous''. She was nominated for the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Actress for the title role in ...

, where the two became best friends. After college they shared a flat in

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and celebrated their joint 30th birthday party at the Groucho Club. Gordon separated from her husband, Tim Laurence in 2011. Together they still run the UK branch of th
Hoffman Institute
which runs a personal development programme founded by Bob Hoffman in 1967. They have two sons, Ben and Alfie.

Filmography

References

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* 1963 births Living people Alumni of RADA English film actresses English television actresses Actresses from London 20th-century English actresses 21st-century English actresses {{England-actor-stub