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Amanda Root
Amanda Root

Amanda Root

ActingBorn January 1, 1963 (age 63)Chelmsford, Essex, England

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amanda Root, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2026
Life Goes On

as Judith

Movie
2024
Baby Reindeer

as Elle Dunn

TV
2024
Baby Reindeer

as Elle Dunn (voice)

TV
2023
The Sixth Commandment

as Sue Farquhar

TV
2023
Allelujah

as Cynthia

Movie
2023
You & Me

as Richards

TV
2021
Dalgliesh

as Sister Brumfett

TV
2020
The Sister

as June Fox

TV
2020
Summerland

as Mrs. Lawrence

Movie
2018
Patrick Melrose

as Virginia Watson-Scott

TV
2017
The Black Prince

as Queen Victoria

Movie
2017
Their Finest

as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)

Movie
2015
Wolf Hall

as Abbess Zouche

TV
2012
Call the Midwife

as Florrie Watkins

TV
2011
The Iron Lady

as Amanda

Movie
2011
Death in Paradise

as Teresa Gower

TV
2011
Vera

as Deena Corbridge

TV
2010
Thorne

as Teresa Maxwell

TV
2010
Sherlock

as Emma Welsborough

TV
2008Movie
2007
The Robber Bride

as Tony Fremont

Movie
2006
The Impressionists

as Alice Hoschede

TV
2004
London

as Charlotte Bronte

TV
2003
Love Again

as Maeve Brennan

Movie
2003TV
2002
Daniel Deronda

as Mrs Davilow

TV
2002
Foyle's War

as Elizabeth Lewes

TV
2002
Rose and Maloney

as Marsha Campese

TV
2002
The Forsyte Saga

as Winifred Dartie

TV
2002
All About Me

as Miranda

TV
2001
Waking the Dead

as Lorna Gyles

TV
2000TV
2000Movie
1998
Big Cat

as Alice

Movie
1998
Mortimer's Law

as Rachel Mortimer

TV
1997
Midsomer Murders

as Ruth Scholey

TV
1997
Original Sin

as Frances Peverell

TV
1996
Deep in the Heart

as Kate Markham

Movie
1996
Breaking the Code

as Patricia 'Pat' Green

Movie
1996
Jane Eyre

as Miss Temple

Movie
1995
Persuasion

as Anne Elliott

Movie
1994
Harry Enfield and Chums

as Miss Hetherington

TV
1994
Love on a Branch Line

as Miss Mounsey

TV
1994
Hildegard

as Ricardis

Movie
1993
The Buddha of Suburbia

as 1st TV Producer

TV
1993
The Man Who Cried

as Hilda Maxwell

Movie
1992
A Touch of Frost

as Dolores Delmonte

TV
1992TV
1990
The BFG

as Sophie (voice)

Movie
1989TV
1987
Mary Rose

as Mary Rose

Movie
1986TV
1986
Casualty

as Joyce Paice

TV
1985
Time for Murder

as Sarah Penwarden

TV
1983
Natural World

as Narrator

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJanuary 1, 1963
Place of BirthChelmsford, Essex, England
Popularity0.9