Amy Mathews

 ( 1979 Births ) 

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, 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 Legal 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 , 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 , 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.

• Official site
• Amy Mathews Biography at RTÉ.ie