Angela Burr

, portrayed by Olivia Colman, is a main character in the BBC/AMC British-American television miniseries The Night Manager.

Background
From a shabby office in London’s Victoria Street, supported by Whitehall Mandarin Mayhew, Burr runs her modest enforcement agency – at the heart of which is a private crusade to bring down Richard Roper, to Burr the embodiment of all arms-selling evil.

In Pine, she finds a shared conscience, though sending him into battle her integrity will be challenged, as she discovers there are rivals closer to home determined to pervert the course of justice.

In the novel of same name, her character is originally a man named Leonard Burr.

Relationships
Married to Gordon Burr for 20 years at the time she recruits Jonathan Pine. She refers to him to others as Mr. Burr, possibly a nod to his occupation as a teacher. Despite not being in love with him, she says through no fault of his own, remains with him and is expecting their first (and last) child.

She has an unclear history with Joel Steadman, an American agent she knew in Baghdad when she was stationed there with the United Nations in 2003. Whatever the relationship, they remain friends professionally and remain fond of each other personally. She is resolutely honorable and whatever existed between them has been put to rest because, as her mother says, "you make your bed, you die in it."

Memorable Quotes
I’ll quote anything if it means I can impersonate her accent. I personally enjoy saying “Richard Roper” in her accent. Try it, It’s fun! :) She said “there is half a psychopath lurking in there, Jonathan. I want you to find him and stick to him. Once you get down to Devon, you are the world’s second worst man. First place already taken” she said something like that in the second episode when she sent Pine to take down Roper.

Burr, Episode 5: "I think I'm being followed..when I left the house this morning I saw a car."

Singhal: "Might you have imagined it? You're tired."

Burr: "I'm tired, I'm pregnant, I'm emotional, I saw a car."