Amanda Root
Acting • Born 1963-01-01
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
61 credits
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
Movie • 2007
Mrs. Chart
Fiona's Story
Movie • 2008
Julie
Allelujah
Movie • 2023
Cynthia
The Robber Bride
Movie • 2007
Tony Fremont
The BFG
Movie • 1990
Sophie (voice)
Persuasion
Movie • 1995
Anne Elliott
Jane Eyre
Movie • 1996
Miss Temple
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Movie • 2000
Margaret Robinson
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Movie • 2001
Karen
Mary Rose
Movie • 1987
Mary Rose
Hildegard
Movie • 1994
Ricardis
Their Finest
Movie • 2017
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
The Man Who Cried
Movie • 1993
Hilda Maxwell
Breaking the Code
Movie • 1996
Patricia 'Pat' Green
Deep in the Heart
Movie • 1996
Kate Markham
The Black Prince
Movie • 2017
Queen Victoria
Love Again
Movie • 2003
Maeve Brennan
Summerland
Movie • 2020
Mrs. Lawrence
Big Cat
Movie • 1998
Alice
The Iron Lady
Movie • 2011
Amanda
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Ruth Scholey
All About Me
TV • 2002
Miranda
A Touch of Frost
TV • 1992
Dolores Delmonte
Foyle's War
TV • 2002
Elizabeth Lewes
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Lorna Gyles
Law & Order: UK
TV • 2009
The Forsyte Saga
TV • 2002
Winifred Dartie
The Robinsons
TV • 2005
Anna Karenina
TV • 2000
Dolly
Patrick Melrose
TV • 2018
Virginia Watson-Scott
Love on a Branch Line
TV • 1994
Miss Mounsey
Daniel Deronda
TV • 2002
Mrs. Davilow
Natural World
TV • 1983
Narrator
Dalgliesh
TV • 2021
Sister Brumfett
The Sixth Commandment
TV • 2023
Sue Farquhar
London
TV • 2004
Charlotte Bronte
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
TV • 2004
Vera Sidney
Little Britain
TV • 2003
Original Sin
TV • 1997
Frances Peverell
Rose and Maloney
TV • 2002
Sunnyside Farm
TV • 1997
Sherlock
TV • 2010
Emma Welsborough
Casualty
TV • 1986
Joyce Paice
You & Me
TV • 2023
Richards
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Mrs Rendell
The Buddha of Suburbia
TV • 1993
1st TV Producer
The Impressionists
TV • 2006
Alice Hoschede
Call the Midwife
TV • 2012
Florrie Watkins
The Sister
TV • 2020
June Fox
Time for Murder
TV • 1985
Sarah Penwarden
Baby Reindeer
TV • 2024
Elle Dunn
Baby Reindeer
TV • 2024
Elle Dunn (voice)
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Teresa Gower
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TV • 1992
Kate (voice)
Wolf Hall
TV • 2015
Abbess Zouche
Vera
TV • 2011
Deena Corbridge
Harry Enfield and Chums
TV • 1994
Miss Hetherington
The Afternoon Play
TV • 2003
Andrea
Thorne
TV • 2010
Teresa Maxwell
Remembers…
TV • 2022
Worlds Beyond
TV • 1986
Julia