Name
Amanda Root
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1963-01-01 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
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- 2007 Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall as Mrs. Chart
- 2008 Fiona's Story as Julie
- 2023 Allelujah as Cynthia
- 2007 The Robber Bride as Tony Fremont
- 1990 The BFG as Sophie (voice)
- 1995 Persuasion as Anne Elliott
- 1996 Jane Eyre as Miss Temple
- 2000 Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Margaret Robinson
- 2001 Marion & Geoff: A Small Summer Party as Karen
- 1987 Mary Rose as Mary Rose
- 1994 Hildegard as Ricardis
- 2017 Their Finest as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
- 1993 The Man Who Cried as Hilda Maxwell
- 1996 Breaking the Code as Patricia 'Pat' Green
- 1996 Deep in the Heart as Kate Markham
- 2017 The Black Prince as Queen Victoria
- 2003 Love Again as Maeve Brennan
- 2020 Summerland as Mrs. Lawrence
- 1998 Big Cat as Alice
- 2011 The Iron Lady as Amanda
- 2026 Life Goes On as Judith
- 1994 The Taming of the Shrew as Kate (voice)
- 2026 Love of Your Life as Grief Therapist
- 1997 Midsomer Murders ( 1 episode ) as Ruth Scholey
- 2002 All About Me ( 8 episodes ) as Miranda
- 1992 A Touch of Frost ( 1 episode ) as Dolores Delmonte
- 2002 Foyle's War ( 1 episode ) as Elizabeth Lewes
- 2001 Waking the Dead ( 2 episodes ) as Lorna Gyles
- 2009 Law & Order: UK ( 1 episode )
- 2002 The Forsyte Saga ( 10 episodes ) as Winifred Dartie
- 2000 Anna Karenina ( 4 episodes ) as Dolly
- 2018 Patrick Melrose ( 1 episode ) as Virginia Watson-Scott
- 1994 Love on a Branch Line ( 4 episodes ) as Miss Mounsey
- 2002 Daniel Deronda ( 4 episodes ) as Mrs Davilow
- 1983 Natural World ( 1 episode ) as Narrator
- 2021 Dalgliesh ( 2 episodes ) as Sister Brumfett
- 2023 The Sixth Commandment ( 4 episodes ) as Sue Farquhar
- 2004 London ( 3 episodes ) as Charlotte Bronte
- 2004 Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder ( 1 episode ) as Vera Sidney
- 2003 Little Britain ( 1 episode )
- 1997 Original Sin ( 3 episodes ) as Frances Peverell
- 1997 Sunnyside Farm ( 1 episode )
- 2010 Sherlock ( 1 episode ) as Emma Welsborough
- 1986 Casualty ( 1 episode ) as Joyce Paice
- 2023 You & Me ( 2 episodes ) as Richards
- 1989 Agatha Christie's Poirot ( 1 episode ) as Mrs Rendell
- 1993 The Buddha of Suburbia ( 4 episodes ) as 1st TV Producer
- 2006 The Impressionists ( 3 episodes ) as Alice Hoschede
- 2012 Call the Midwife ( 1 episode ) as Florrie Watkins
- 2020 The Sister ( 4 episodes ) as June Fox
- 2024 Baby Reindeer ( 2 episodes ) as Elle Dunn
- 2024 Baby Reindeer ( 1 episode ) as Elle Dunn (voice)
- 2011 Death in Paradise ( 1 episode ) as Teresa Gower
- 1992 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales ( 1 episode ) as Kate (voice)
- 2015 Wolf Hall ( 4 episodes ) as Abbess Zouche
- 2011 Vera ( 1 episode ) as Deena Corbridge
- 1994 Harry Enfield and Chums ( 1 episode ) as Miss Hetherington
- 2003 The Afternoon Play ( 1 episode ) as Andrea
- 2010 Thorne ( 1 episode ) as Teresa Maxwell
- 2022 Remembers… ( 1 episode )
- 1986 Worlds Beyond ( 1 episode ) as Julia
- 1985 Time for Murder ( 1 episode ) as Sarah Penwarden
- 2002 Rose and Maloney ( 2 episodes ) as Marsha Campese
- 1998 Mortimer's Law ( 6 episodes ) as Rachel Mortimer
- 2005 The Robinsons ( 6 episodes ) as Maggie Robinson
- 1997 Turning World ( 3 episodes ) as Evelyn Sharples
- 2021 Professor T ( 1 episode ) as Emily Maclean
