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