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Amanda Root

Amanda Root

Known For Acting
Birthday Jan 01, 1963 (62)
Birthplace Chelmsford, Essex, England
Popularity 0.9 (history)
Updated Jun 30, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

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.

Known For

Filmography

Allelujah

Allelujah

2023

as Cynthia

Summerland

Summerland

2020

as Mrs. Lawrence

The Black Prince

The Black Prince

2017

as Queen Victoria

Their Finest

Their Finest

2017

as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)

Fiona's Story

Fiona's Story

2008

as Julie

The Robber Bride

The Robber Bride

2007

as Tony Fremont

Love Again

Love Again

2003

as Maeve Brennan

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

2000

as Margaret Robinson

Deep in the Heart

Deep in the Heart

1996

as Kate Markham

Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code

1996

as Patricia 'Pat' Green

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

1996

as Miss Temple

Persuasion

Persuasion

1995

as Anne Elliott

Hildegard

Hildegard

1994

as Ricardis

The Man Who Cried

The Man Who Cried

1993

as Hilda Maxwell

The BFG

The BFG

1989

as Sophie (voice)

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

All About Me

as Miranda

Episodes: 8

First Aired: Mar 08, 2002

Anna Karenina

as Dolly

Episodes: 4

First Aired: May 09, 2000

Love on a Branch Line

as Miss Mounsey

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Jun 12, 1994

Daniel Deronda

as Mrs. Davilow

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Nov 23, 2002

The Sixth Commandment

as Sue Farquhar

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Jul 17, 2023

The Buddha of Suburbia

as 1st TV Producer

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Nov 03, 1993

The Sister

as June Fox

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Oct 26, 2020

Wolf Hall

as Abbess Zouche

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Jan 21, 2015

London

as Charlotte Bronte

Episodes: 3

First Aired: May 07, 2004

Original Sin

as Frances Peverell

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Mar 20, 1997

The Impressionists

as Alice Hoschede

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Apr 30, 2006

Waking the Dead

as Lorna Gyles

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jun 18, 2001

Dalgliesh

as Sister Brumfett

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Nov 04, 2021

You & Me

as Richards

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Feb 23, 2023

Baby Reindeer

as Elle Dunn

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Apr 11, 2024

Midsomer Murders

as Ruth Scholey

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 23, 1997

A Touch of Frost

as Dolores Delmonte

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 06, 1992

Patrick Melrose

as Virginia Watson-Scott

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 12, 2018

Natural World

as Narrator

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 30, 1983

Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder

as Vera Sidney

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 16, 2004

Sherlock

as Emma Welsborough

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 25, 2010

Casualty

as Joyce Paice

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 06, 1986

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Mrs Rendell

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 08, 1989

Call the Midwife

as Florrie Watkins

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 15, 2012

Time for Murder

as Sarah Penwarden

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 09, 1985

Baby Reindeer

as Elle Dunn (voice)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 11, 2024

Death in Paradise

as Teresa Gower

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 25, 2011

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

as Kate (voice)

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 09, 1992

The Forsyte Saga

Episodes: 10

First Aired: Apr 07, 2002

The Robinsons

Episodes: 6

First Aired: May 05, 2005

Rose and Maloney

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Sep 29, 2002

Foyle's War

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 27, 2002

Law & Order: UK

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 23, 2009

Little Britain

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 16, 2003

Sunnyside Farm

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 18, 1997

Thorne

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 10, 2010

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