Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 1, 1963
Place of Birth:
Chelmsford, Essex, England
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Amanda Root
Biography
Amanda Root (born 1963 in Chelmsford, Essex) is an English stage and screen actor and a former voice actor for children's programmes.
Ms Root is possibly best known for her starring role in the 1995 BBC film adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion and the British TV comedy All About Me, as Miranda, alongside Richard Lumsden in 2004 and when she was a voice actor, best known for voicing Sophie in BFG.
She trained for the stage at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Allelujah | Cynthia |
| 2020 | Summerland | Mrs. Lawrence |
| 2017 | Their Finest | Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film) |
| 2017 | The Black Prince | Queen Victoria |
| 2008 | Fiona's Story | Julie |
| 2007 | Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall | Mrs. Chart |
| 2007 | The Robber Bride | Tony Fremont |
| 2003 | Love Again | Maeve Brennan |
| 2001 | Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party | Karen |
| 2000 | Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | Margaret Robinson |
| 1998 | Big Cat | Alice |
| 1996 | Jane Eyre | Miss Temple |
| 1996 | Breaking the Code | Patricia 'Pat' Green |
| 1996 | Deep in the Heart | Kate Markham |
| 1995 | Persuasion | Anne Elliott |
| 1994 | Hildegard | Ricardis |
| 1993 | The Man Who Cried | Hilda Maxwell |
| 1989 | The BFG | Sophie (voice) |
| 1987 | Mary Rose | Mary Rose |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Baby Reindeer | Elle Dunn |
| 2024 | Baby Reindeer | Elle Dunn (voice) |
| 2023 | The Sixth Commandment | Sue Farquhar |
| 2023 | You & Me | Richards |
| 2021 | Dalgliesh | Sister Brumfett |
| 2020 | The Sister | June Fox |
| 2018 | Patrick Melrose | Virginia Watson-Scott |
| 2015 | Wolf Hall | Abbess Zouche |
| 2012 | Call the Midwife | Florrie Watkins |
| 2011 | Death in Paradise | Teresa Gower |
| 2011 | Vera | Deena Corbridge |
| 2010 | Thorne | |
| 2010 | Sherlock | Emma Welsborough |
| 2009 | Law & Order: UK | |
| 2006 | The Impressionists | Alice Hoschede |
| 2005 | The Robinsons | |
| 2004 | London | Charlotte Bronte |
| 2004 | Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder | Vera Sidney |
| 2003 | Little Britain | |
| 2002 | All About Me | Miranda |
| 2002 | Foyle's War | Elizabeth Lewes |
| 2002 | The Forsyte Saga | |
| 2002 | Daniel Deronda | Mrs. Davilow |
| 2002 | Rose and Maloney | |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead | Lorna Gyles |
| 2000 | Anna Karenina | Dolly |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Ruth Scholey |
| 1997 | Original Sin | Frances Peverell |
| 1997 | Sunnyside Farm | |
| 1994 | Love on a Branch Line | Miss Mounsey |
| 1994 | Harry Enfield and Chums | Miss Hetherington |
| 1993 | The Buddha of Suburbia | 1st TV Producer |
| 1992 | A Touch of Frost | Dolores Delmonte |
| 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Kate (voice) |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Mrs Rendell |
| 1986 | Casualty | Joyce Paice |
| 1985 | Time for Murder | Sarah Penwarden |
| 1983 | Natural World | Narrator |