Amanda Root
Birthday
1963/01/01 (62 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Chelmsford, Essex, England
Also know as
아만다 루트
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.
Acting
(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
(1989) 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 and 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
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Ruth Scholey
(2002) All About Me
as Miranda
(1992) A Touch of Frost
as Dolores Delmonte
(2002) Foyle's War
as ---
(2001) Waking the Dead
as Lorna Gyles
(2009) Law & Order: UK
as ---
(2002) The Forsyte Saga
as ---
(2005) The Robinsons
as ---
(2000) Anna Karenina
as Dolly
(2018) Patrick Melrose
as Virginia Watson-Scott
(1994) Love on a Branch Line
as Miss Mounsey
(2002) Daniel Deronda
as Mrs. Davilow
(1983) Natural World
as Narrator
(2021) Dalgliesh
as Sister Brumfett
(2023) The Sixth Commandment
as Sue Farquhar
(2004) London
as Charlotte Bronte
(2004) Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
as Vera Sidney
(2003) Little Britain
as ---
(1997) Original Sin
as Frances Peverell
(2002) Rose and Maloney
as ---
(1997) Sunnyside Farm
as ---
(2010) Thorne
as ---
(2010) Sherlock
as Emma Welsborough
(1986) Casualty
as Joyce Paice
(2023) You & Me
as Richards
(1989) Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs Rendell
(1993) The Buddha of Suburbia
as 1st TV Producer
(2006) The Impressionists
as Alice Hoschede
(2012) Call the Midwife
as Florrie Watkins
(2020) The Sister
as June Fox
(1985) Time for Murder
as Sarah Penwarden
(2024) Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn
(2024) Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn (voice)
(2011) Death in Paradise
as Teresa Gower
(1992) Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Kate (voice)