Birthday:
Jan 01, 1963
Place of Birth: Chelmsford, Essex, England
Place of Birth: Chelmsford, Essex, England
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amanda Root, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall | Mrs. Chart | 2007 |
| Fiona's Story | Julie | 2008 |
| Allelujah | Cynthia | 2023 |
| The Robber Bride | Tony Fremont | 2007 |
| The BFG | Sophie (voice) | 1989 |
| Persuasion | Anne Elliott | 1995 |
| Jane Eyre | Miss Temple | 1996 |
| Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | Margaret Robinson | 2000 |
| Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party | Karen | 2001 |
| Mary Rose | Mary Rose | 1987 |
| Hildegard | Ricardis | 1994 |
| Their Finest | Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film) | 2017 |
| The Man Who Cried | Hilda Maxwell | 1993 |
| Breaking the Code | Patricia 'Pat' Green | 1996 |
| Deep in the Heart | Kate Markham | 1996 |
| The Black Prince | Queen Victoria | 2017 |
| Love Again | Maeve Brennan | 2003 |
| Summerland | Mrs. Lawrence | 2020 |
| Series | Cast | Year |
| Midsomer Murders | Ruth Scholey | 1997 |
| All About Me | Miranda | 2002 |
| A Touch of Frost | Dolores Delmonte | 1992 |
| Foyle's War | 2002 | |
| Waking the Dead | Lorna Gyles | 2001 |
| Law & Order: UK | 2009 | |
| The Forsyte Saga | 2002 | |
| The Robinsons | 2005 | |
| Anna Karenina | Dolly | 2000 |
| Patrick Melrose | Virginia Watson-Scott | 2018 |
| Love on a Branch Line | Miss Mounsey | 1994 |
| Daniel Deronda | Mrs. Davilow | 2002 |
| Natural World | Narrator | 1983 |
| Dalgliesh | Sister Brumfett | 2021 |
| The Sixth Commandment | Sue Farquhar | 2023 |
| London | Charlotte Bronte | 2004 |
| Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder | Vera Sidney | 2004 |
| Little Britain | 2003 | |
| Original Sin | Frances Peverell | 1997 |
| Rose and Maloney | 2002 | |
| Sunnyside Farm | 1997 | |
| Thorne | 2010 | |
| Sherlock | Emma Welsborough | 2010 |
| Casualty | Joyce Paice | 1986 |
| You & Me | Richards | 2023 |
| Agatha Christie's Poirot | Mrs Rendell | 1989 |
| The Buddha of Suburbia | 1st TV Producer | 1993 |
| The Impressionists | Alice Hoschede | 2006 |
| Call the Midwife | Florrie Watkins | 2012 |
| The Sister | June Fox | 2020 |
| Time for Murder | Sarah Penwarden | 1985 |
| Baby Reindeer | Elle Dunn | 2024 |
| Baby Reindeer | Elle Dunn (voice) | 2024 |
| Death in Paradise | Teresa Gower | 2011 |
| Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Kate (voice) | 1992 |
