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