Biography
Mandy Matthews is a Scottish actress. She played Ma (Anne Gillespie) in Lynne Ramsay's debut feature Ratcatcher (1999).
Matthews appeared in British television and film throughout the 1990s. Her credits include the series Cardiac Arrest (1994–1996) as student nurse Pam Charnley, Looking After Jo Jo (1998) as Carol, Take the High Road (1992), and Taggart (1990), as well as the television films Dream Baby (1989) and Ruffian Hearts (1995). She also featured in Eight Days a Week (1997). For her performance in Ratcatcher she received the Best Actress award at the Bratislava International Film Festival. Her last screen credit was as Sandra Taylor in the BBC Scotland series Tinsel Town (2000).
