- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- January 1, 1963
- Place of Birth
- Chelmsford, Essex, England
Amanda Root
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.
Filmography
movieLife Goes On
2026 · Judith
tvBaby Reindeer
2024 · Elle Dunn, Elle Dunn (voice)
tvThe Sixth Commandment
2023 · Sue Farquhar
movieAllelujah
2023 · Cynthia
tvYou & Me
2023 · Richards
tvRemembers…
2022
tvDalgliesh
2021 · Sister Brumfett
tvThe Sister
2020 · June Fox
movieSummerland
2020 · Mrs. Lawrence
tvPatrick Melrose
2018 · Virginia Watson-Scott
movieThe Black Prince
2017 · Queen Victoria
movieTheir Finest
2017 · Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
tvWolf Hall
2015 · Abbess Zouche
tvCall the Midwife
2012 · Florrie Watkins
movieThe Iron Lady
2011 · Amanda
tvDeath in Paradise
2011 · Teresa Gower
tvVera
2011 · Deena Corbridge
tvThorne
2010 · Teresa Maxwell
tvSherlock
2010 · Emma Welsborough
tvLaw & Order: UK
2009
movieFiona's Story
2008 · Julie
movieMiss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
2007 · Mrs. Chart
movieThe Robber Bride
2007 · Tony Fremont
tvThe Impressionists
2006 · Alice Hoschede
tvThe Robinsons
2005
tvJulian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
2004 · Vera Sidney
London
tvLondon
2004 · Charlotte Bronte
tvLittle Britain
2003
movieLove Again
2003 · Maeve Brennan
tvThe Afternoon Play
2003 · Andrea
tvDaniel Deronda
2002 · Mrs Davilow
tvFoyle's War
2002 · Elizabeth Lewes
tvRose and Maloney
2002 · Marsha Campese
tvThe Forsyte Saga
2002 · Winifred Dartie
tvAll About Me
2002 · Miranda
movieMarion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
2001 · Karen
tvWaking the Dead
2001 · Lorna Gyles
tvAnna Karenina
2000 · Dolly
movieWhatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000 · Margaret Robinson
Big Cat
movieBig Cat
1998 · Alice
Mortimer's Law
tvMortimer's Law
1998 · Rachel Mortimer
Sunnyside Farm
tvSunnyside Farm
1997
tvMidsomer Murders
1997 · Ruth Scholey
tvOriginal Sin
1997 · Frances Peverell
movieDeep in the Heart
1996 · Kate Markham
movieBreaking the Code
1996 · Patricia 'Pat' Green
movieJane Eyre
1996 · Miss Temple
moviePersuasion
1995 · Anne Elliott
tvHarry Enfield and Chums
1994 · Miss Hetherington
tvLove on a Branch Line
1994 · Miss Mounsey
movieHildegard
1994 · Ricardis
tvThe Buddha of Suburbia
1993 · 1st TV Producer
movieThe Man Who Cried
1993 · Hilda Maxwell
tvA Touch of Frost
1992 · Dolores Delmonte
tvShakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 · Kate (voice)
movieThe BFG
1990 · Sophie (voice)
tvAgatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Mrs Rendell
movieMary Rose
1987 · Mary Rose
tvWorlds Beyond
1986 · Julia
tvCasualty
1986 · Joyce Paice
tvTime for Murder
1985 · Sarah Penwarden
tvNatural World
1983 · Narrator