Amanda Root
Actor
Born January 1, 1963 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.
Filmography
Life Goes On
Judith
Baby Reindeer
Elle Dunn
The Sixth Commandment
Sue Farquhar
Allelujah
Cynthia
You & Me
Richards
Remembers…
Dalgliesh
Sister Brumfett
The Sister
June Fox
Summerland
Mrs. Lawrence
Patrick Melrose
Virginia Watson-Scott
The Black Prince
Queen Victoria
Their Finest
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
Wolf Hall
Abbess Zouche
Call the Midwife
Florrie Watkins
The Iron Lady
Amanda
Death in Paradise
Teresa Gower
Vera
Deena Corbridge
Thorne
Teresa Maxwell
Sherlock
Emma Welsborough
Law & Order: UK
Fiona's Story
Julie
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
Mrs. Chart
The Robber Bride
Tony Fremont
The Impressionists
Alice Hoschede
The Robinsons
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
Vera Sidney
Little Britain
Love Again
Maeve Brennan
The Afternoon Play
Andrea
Daniel Deronda
Mrs Davilow
Foyle's War
Elizabeth Lewes
Rose and Maloney
Marsha Campese
The Forsyte Saga
Winifred Dartie
All About Me
Miranda
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Karen
Waking the Dead
Lorna Gyles
Anna Karenina
Dolly
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Margaret Robinson
Midsomer Murders
Ruth Scholey
Original Sin
Frances Peverell
Deep in the Heart
Kate Markham
Breaking the Code
Patricia 'Pat' Green
Jane Eyre
Miss Temple
Persuasion
Anne Elliott
Harry Enfield and Chums
Miss Hetherington
Love on a Branch Line
Miss Mounsey
Hildegard
Ricardis
The Buddha of Suburbia
1st TV Producer
The Man Who Cried
Hilda Maxwell
A Touch of Frost
Dolores Delmonte
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Kate (voice)
The BFG
Sophie (voice)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs Rendell
Mary Rose
Mary Rose
Worlds Beyond
Julia
Casualty
Joyce Paice
Time for Murder
Sarah Penwarden
Natural World
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