Amanda Root
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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Movies
Allelujah
Cynthia
Summerland
Mrs. Lawrence
The Black Prince
Queen Victoria
Their Finest
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
The Iron Lady
Amanda
Fiona's Story
Julie
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
Mrs. Chart
The Robber Bride
Tony Fremont
Love Again
Maeve Brennan
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Karen
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Margaret Robinson
Big Cat
Alice
Deep in the Heart
Kate Markham
Breaking the Code
Patricia 'Pat' Green
Jane Eyre
Miss Temple
Persuasion
Anne Elliott
Hildegard
Ricardis
The Man Who Cried
Hilda Maxwell
The BFG
Sophie (voice)
Mary Rose
Mary Rose
TV Series
Baby Reindeer
Elle Dunn
2 Episodes
The Sixth Commandment
Sue Farquhar
4 Episodes
You & Me
Richards
2 Episodes
Dalgliesh
Sister Brumfett
2 Episodes
The Sister
June Fox
4 Episodes
Patrick Melrose
Virginia Watson-Scott
1 Episode
Wolf Hall
Abbess Zouche
4 Episodes
Call the Midwife
Florrie Watkins
1 Episode
Death in Paradise
Teresa Gower
1 Episode
Vera
Deena Corbridge
1 Episode
Thorne
1 Episode
Sherlock
Emma Welsborough
1 Episode
Law & Order: UK
1 Episode
The Impressionists
Alice Hoschede
3 Episodes
The Robinsons
6 Episodes
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
Vera Sidney
1 Episode
London
Charlotte Bronte
3 Episodes
Little Britain
1 Episode
The Afternoon Play
Andrea
1 Episode
Daniel Deronda
Mrs. Davilow
4 Episodes
Foyle's War
Elizabeth Lewes
1 Episode
Rose and Maloney
2 Episodes
The Forsyte Saga
Winifred Dartie
10 Episodes
All About Me
Miranda
8 Episodes
Waking the Dead
Lorna Gyles
2 Episodes
Anna Karenina
Dolly
4 Episodes
Sunnyside Farm
1 Episode
Midsomer Murders
Ruth Scholey
1 Episode
Original Sin
Frances Peverell
3 Episodes
Harry Enfield and Chums
Miss Hetherington
1 Episode
Love on a Branch Line
Miss Mounsey
4 Episodes
The Buddha of Suburbia
1st TV Producer
4 Episodes
A Touch of Frost
Dolores Delmonte
1 Episode
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Kate (voice)
1 Episode
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs Rendell
1 Episode
Casualty
Joyce Paice
1 Episode
Time for Murder
Sarah Penwarden
1 Episode
Natural World
Narrator
1 Episode