Amy Mathews

Amy Mathews (born 29 March 1979) is an Australian television, film and theatre actress. She is best known for her role as Rachel Armstrong in Australian soap opera Home and Away.

Early life

Mathews was born in Melbourne, Victoria, but has spent most of her life in Sydney. She was offered a scholarship at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, which she completed. She then enrolled in and completed a full time acting course at Actors Centre Australia in Sydney, where she met fellow Home and Away actor Jon Sivewright, who plays Tony Holden, her husband on the show. Before landing her full time role on Home and Away, Mathews waited tables to pay the bills between acting jobs.

Career

Mathews became involved with the Bell Shakespeare Company. She performed as part of the "Actors at Work" program, touring high schools in Australia and Singapore. Her passion for theatre, saw her feature in a 2003 production of Cigarettes and Chocolate and Other Hang Ups. Her other early theatre credits include Tracked, Push Up 1-3, Chicom, Orange Flower Water and Transparency.

Mathews made her on-screen acting debut in 2001, when she had a guest appearance in the short-lived television series Head Start. Following this, she landed roles in several other television series including Always Greener, Blue Heelers, Love Bytes, All Saints and the British series Jeopardy.

Mathews then played the role of doctor and psychiatrist Rachel Armstrong on long-running soap opera Home and Away, from the first episode of the 2006 season until 2010 when she departed the show to pursue new projects. The role of Rachel won Mathews the Logie Award for Most Popular New Female Talent in 2007.

Following Home and Away, Mathews made guest appearances in Packed to the Rafters, Rescue: Special Ops and Crownies, the latter starring her former Home and Away co-stars Todd Lasance and Indiana Evans. In 2007, Mathews starred in the Australian film Gabriel.

In August 2023, Mathews joined the cast of the courtroom drama series, The Twelve for its second season, in the role of Sasha Price. Her most recently screen appearance was in a 2025 episode of NCIS: Sydney, once again opposite Todd Lasance.

Mathews' other theatre credits include Macbeth (2011–2012), The Taming of the Shrew (2011–2012), The Tempest (2012–2013), The Comedy of Errors (2012–2013) and Othello (2013) with Sport for Jove. She appeared in Richard III (2014) and The Anzac Project (2015) for the Ensemble Theatre. She also performed in Coma Land (2017), Toast (2017), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (2018/2020) and Water (2019) for Black Swan Theatre Company winning a Blue Room Award for Toast and a Performing Arts WA Award for Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. In 2024 and 2025, she has appeared in August: Osage County, for Black Swan.

Mathews has also starred in TV commercials. She has an interest in writing and directing, runs her own blog and studies surface design.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards

External links

• at IMDb
• at RTÉ.ie