
Amanda Root
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 1, 1963 (age 63)
- Birthplace
- 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amanda Root, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography

Life Goes On
Movie · as Judith

Love of Your Life
Movie · as Grief Therapist

The Blame
TV · as Pauline Chadwick · 1 ep

Britain Under the Nazis: The Forgotten Occupation
TV · as Winifred Harvey · 2 eps

Harlan Coben's Lazarus
TV · as Margot Macintyre · 6 eps

Baby Reindeer
TV · as Elle Dunn, Elle Dunn (voice) · 2 eps

Allelujah
Movie · as Cynthia

The Sixth Commandment
TV · as Sue Farquhar · 4 eps

You & Me
TV · as Richards · 2 eps

Remembers…
TV · 1 ep

Dalgliesh
TV · as Sister Brumfett · 2 eps

Professor T
TV · as Emily Maclean · 1 ep

Summerland
Movie · as Mrs. Lawrence

The Sister
TV · as June Fox · 4 eps

MotherFatherSon
TV · as Interviewer · 1 ep

The Capture
TV · as Margaret · 1 ep

Patrick Melrose
TV · as Virginia Watson-Scott · 1 ep

Their Finest
Movie · as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)

The Black Prince
Movie · as Queen Victoria

Wolf Hall
TV · as Abbess Zouche · 4 eps

Unforgotten
TV · as Carol Finch · 6 eps

The Tunnel
TV · as Dr Cross · 1 ep

Count Arthur Strong
TV · as Karen · 1 ep

Call the Midwife
TV · as Florrie Watkins · 1 ep

The Iron Lady
Movie · as Amanda

Death in Paradise
TV · as Teresa Gower · 1 ep

Vera
TV · as Deena Corbridge · 1 ep

DCI Banks
TV · as Mary Rothwell · 2 eps

Sherlock
TV · as Emma Welsborough · 1 ep

Thorne
TV · as Teresa Maxwell · 1 ep

Law & Order: UK
TV · as Patricia Smith · 1 ep

Starship Farragut - The Animated Episodes
TV · as Lt Allison Bell · 1 ep

Fiona's Story
Movie · as Julie

Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
Movie · as Mrs. Chart

The Robber Bride
Movie · as Tony Fremont

The Impressionists
TV · as Alice Hoschede · 3 eps
Brief Encounters
TV · as June Makenzie · 1 ep

The Robinsons
TV · as Maggie Robinson · 6 eps

Empire
TV · as Noella · 3 eps
London
TV · as Charlotte Bronte · 3 eps

Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
TV · as Vera Sidney · 1 ep

New Tricks
TV · as Eleanor · 1 ep

Love Again
Movie · as Maeve Brennan

Little Britain
TV · as Baby's Mother · 1 ep

The Afternoon Play
TV · as Andrea · 1 ep

The Adventure of English
TV · as Anne Elliot · 1 ep

All About Me
TV · as Miranda · 8 eps

Foyle's War
TV · as Elizabeth Lewes · 1 ep

The Forsyte Saga
TV · as Winifred Dartie · 10 eps

Daniel Deronda
TV · as Mrs Davilow · 4 eps

Rose and Maloney
TV · as Marsha Campese · 2 eps

Marion & Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Movie · as Karen

Waking the Dead
TV · as Lorna Gyles · 2 eps

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Movie · as Margaret Robinson

Anna Karenina
TV · as Dolly · 4 eps

Holby City
TV · as Abbie Sawyer · 1 ep
Big Cat
Movie · as Alice
Mortimer's Law
TV · as Rachel Mortimer · 6 eps

Midsomer Murders
TV · as Ruth Scholey · 1 ep

Original Sin
TV · as Frances Peverell · 3 eps
Sunnyside Farm
TV · as Dawn · 1 ep
Turning World
TV · as Evelyn Sharples · 3 eps

Jane Eyre
Movie · as Miss Temple

Breaking the Code
Movie · as Patricia 'Pat' Green

Deep in the Heart
Movie · as Kate Markham

Silent Witness
TV · as Olivia Walsh · 1 ep

Persuasion
Movie · as Anne Elliott

Dangerfield
TV · as Alice Stratton · 1 ep

Hildegard
Movie · as Ricardis

The Taming of the Shrew
Movie · as Kate (voice)

Love on a Branch Line
TV · as Miss Mounsey · 4 eps

Harry Enfield and Chums
TV · as Miss Hetherington · 1 ep

The Man Who Cried
Movie · as Hilda Maxwell

The Buddha of Suburbia
TV · as 1st TV Producer · 4 eps

A Touch of Frost
TV · as Dolores Delmonte · 1 ep

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TV · as Kate (voice) · 1 ep

The House of Bernarda Alba
Movie · as Adela

The BFG
Movie · as Sophie (voice)

Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as Mrs Rendell · 1 ep

Mary Rose
Movie · as Mary Rose

Casualty
TV · as Joyce Paice, Evelyn Winnell, Barb Edmonds, Heather Cross · 1 ep

Worlds Beyond
TV · as Julia · 1 ep

Time for Murder
TV · as Sarah Penwarden · 1 ep

Natural World
TV · as Narrator · 1 ep

Storyboard
TV · as Polly Swift · 1 ep

The South Bank Show
TV · as Claire Clairmont · 1 ep