Acting

Amanda Root

Born 1963-01-01 · 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.

Credits

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Life Goes On
as Judith
2026
Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn
2024
Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn (voice)
2024
The Sixth Commandment
as Sue Farquhar
2023
Allelujah
as Cynthia
2023
You & Me
as Richards
2023
Remembers…
2022
Dalgliesh
as Sister Brumfett
2021
Professor T
as Emily Maclean
2021
The Sister
as June Fox
2020
Summerland
as Mrs. Lawrence
2020
Patrick Melrose
as Virginia Watson-Scott
2018
The Black Prince
as Queen Victoria
2017
Their Finest
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
2017
Wolf Hall
as Abbess Zouche
2015
Call the Midwife
as Florrie Watkins
2012
The Iron Lady
as Amanda
2011
Death in Paradise
as Teresa Gower
2011
Vera
as Deena Corbridge
2011
Thorne
as Teresa Maxwell
2010
Sherlock
as Emma Welsborough
2010
Law & Order: UK
2009
Fiona's Story
as Julie
2008
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
as Mrs. Chart
2007
The Robber Bride
as Tony Fremont
2007
The Impressionists
as Alice Hoschede
2006
The Robinsons
as Maggie Robinson
2005
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
as Vera Sidney
2004
London
as Charlotte Bronte
2004
Little Britain
2003
Love Again
as Maeve Brennan
2003
The Afternoon Play
as Andrea
2003
Daniel Deronda
as Mrs Davilow
2002
Foyle's War
as Elizabeth Lewes
2002
Rose and Maloney
as Marsha Campese
2002
The Forsyte Saga
as Winifred Dartie
2002
All About Me
as Miranda
2002
Marion & Geoff: A Small Summer Party
as Karen
2001
Waking the Dead
as Lorna Gyles
2001
Anna Karenina
as Dolly
2000
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Margaret Robinson
2000
Big Cat
as Alice
1998
Mortimer's Law
as Rachel Mortimer
1998
Sunnyside Farm
1997
Midsomer Murders
as Ruth Scholey
1997
Original Sin
as Frances Peverell
1997
Turning World
as Evelyn Sharples
1997
Deep in the Heart
as Kate Markham
1996
Breaking the Code
as Patricia 'Pat' Green
1996
Jane Eyre
as Miss Temple
1996
Persuasion
as Anne Elliott
1995
The Taming of the Shrew
as Kate (voice)
1994
Harry Enfield and Chums
as Miss Hetherington
1994
Love on a Branch Line
as Miss Mounsey
1994
Hildegard
as Ricardis
1994
The Buddha of Suburbia
as 1st TV Producer
1993
The Man Who Cried
as Hilda Maxwell
1993
A Touch of Frost
as Dolores Delmonte
1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Kate (voice)
1992
The BFG
as Sophie (voice)
1990
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs Rendell
1989
Mary Rose
as Mary Rose
1987
Worlds Beyond
as Julia
1986
Casualty
as Joyce Paice
1986
Time for Murder
as Sarah Penwarden
1985
Natural World
as Narrator
1983