Acting

Rebecca Root

Born 1969-05-10 · Woking, Surrey, England, UK

Rebecca Root is an English actress, comedian and voice coach. She was rated 18th in The Independent on Sunday's Rainbow List 2014, which named her as one of the very few openly transgender actresses in mainstream television, alongside Laverne Cox and Adèle Anderson.

Credits

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Heartstopper Forever
as Principal Edwards
2026
The Breakdown of a Toxic Relationship as told by Fluffmeister, a Poodle of Questionable Heritage
2025
Enigma
as Narrator (voice)
2025
Monsieur Spade
as Cynthia Fitzsimmons
2024
This Is Christmas
as Miranda
2022
The Gallery
as Nicky
2022
Heartstopper
as Principal Edwards
2022
The Rising
as DS Diana Aird
2022
The Wheel of Time
as Keeper
2021
Annika
as Alex Carrigan
2021
Creation Stories
as Vicky
2021
Finding Alice
as Lindsay
2021
The Queen's Gambit
as Miss Lonsdale
2020
Last Christmas
as Dr. Addis
2019
Flack
as Allie Gregs
2019
Sex Education
as Leanne
2019
The Romanoffs
as Dana
2018
Colette
as Rachilde
2018
The Sisters Brothers
as Mayfield
2018
Eddie Elise
as Elise
2018
Sis
as Steph
2017
Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe
as Camilla Stevens
2016
Approach/Withdraw
as Narrator
2016
The Danish Girl
as Nurse
2015
Boy Meets Girl
as Judy
2015
Normal
as Cynthia
2012
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
Hollyoaks
as Midwife
1995
Hollyoaks
as Melanie Athill
1995
The Detectives
as Vet
1993
Keeping Up Appearances
as The Engineer
1990
Casualty
as Psychiatric SHO
1986
Hear Me Roar
as Elizabeth Bellinger
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Hear Me Roar
Executive Producer
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