Amanda Root

Acting

Born January 1, 1963, 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.

Filmography

• 2026Life Goes On — Judith
• Baby Reindeer — Elle Dunn, Elle Dunn (voice)
• 2023Allelujah — Cynthia
• The Sixth Commandment — Sue Farquhar
• You & Me — Richards
• Remembers…
• Dalgliesh — Sister Brumfett
• 2020Summerland — Mrs. Lawrence
• The Sister — June Fox
• Patrick Melrose — Virginia Watson-Scott
• 2017The Black Prince — Queen Victoria
• 2017Their Finest — Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
• Wolf Hall — Abbess Zouche
• Call the Midwife — Florrie Watkins
• Death in Paradise — Teresa Gower
• 2011The Iron Lady — Amanda
• Vera — Deena Corbridge
• Sherlock — Emma Welsborough
• Thorne — Teresa Maxwell
• Law & Order: UK
• 2008Fiona's Story — Julie
• 2007Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall — Mrs. Chart
• 2007The Robber Bride — Tony Fremont
• The Impressionists — Alice Hoschede
• The Robinsons — Maggie Robinson
• Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder — Vera Sidney
• London — Charlotte Bronte
• Little Britain
• 2003Love Again — Maeve Brennan
• The Afternoon Play — Andrea
• All About Me — Miranda
• Daniel Deronda — Mrs Davilow
• Foyle's War — Elizabeth Lewes
• Rose and Maloney — Marsha Campese
• The Forsyte Saga — Winifred Dartie
• 2001Marion & Geoff: A Small Summer Party — Karen
• Waking the Dead — Lorna Gyles
• Anna Karenina — Dolly
• 2000Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? — Margaret Robinson
• 1998Big Cat — Alice
• Mortimer's Law — Rachel Mortimer
• Midsomer Murders — Ruth Scholey
• Original Sin — Frances Peverell
• Sunnyside Farm
• Turning World — Evelyn Sharples
• 1996Breaking the Code — Patricia 'Pat' Green
• 1996Deep in the Heart — Kate Markham
• 1996Jane Eyre — Miss Temple
• 1995Persuasion — Anne Elliott
• Harry Enfield and Chums — Miss Hetherington
• 1994Hildegard — Ricardis
• Love on a Branch Line — Miss Mounsey
• 1994The Taming of the Shrew — Kate (voice)
• The Buddha of Suburbia — 1st TV Producer
• 1993The Man Who Cried — Hilda Maxwell
• A Touch of Frost — Dolores Delmonte
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Kate (voice)
• 1990The BFG — Sophie (voice)
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Mrs Rendell
• 1987Mary Rose — Mary Rose
• Casualty — Joyce Paice
• Worlds Beyond — Julia
• Time for Murder — Sarah Penwarden
• Natural World — Narrator