Amanda Root
Born: 1963-01-01 in Chelmsford, Essex, England
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2024
- Baby Reindeer as Elle Dunn
2023
- Allelujah as Cynthia
- You & Me as Richards
- The Sixth Commandment as Sue Farquhar
2021
- Dalgliesh as Sister Brumfett
2020
- Summerland as Mrs. Lawrence
- The Sister as June Fox
2018
- Patrick Melrose as Virginia Watson-Scott
2017
- The Black Prince as Queen Victoria
- Their Finest as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
2015
- Wolf Hall as Abbess Zouche
2012
- Call the Midwife as Florrie Watkins
2011
- Death in Paradise as Teresa Gower
- Vera as Deena Corbridge
- The Iron Lady as Amanda
2009
2008
- Fiona's Story as Julie
2007
- The Robber Bride as Tony Fremont
- Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall as Mrs. Chart
2006
- The Impressionists as Alice Hoschede
2005
2004
- London as Charlotte Bronte
- Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder as Vera Sidney
2003
- Little Britain
- Love Again as Maeve Brennan
- The Afternoon Play as Andrea
2002
- Foyle's War as Elizabeth Lewes
- The Forsyte Saga as Winifred Dartie
- Rose and Maloney
- Daniel Deronda as Mrs. Davilow
- All About Me as Miranda
2001
- Waking the Dead as Lorna Gyles
- Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party as Karen
2000
- Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Margaret Robinson
- Anna Karenina as Dolly
1998
- Big Cat as Alice
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Ruth Scholey
- Original Sin as Frances Peverell
- Sunnyside Farm
1996
- Jane Eyre as Miss Temple
- Breaking the Code as Patricia 'Pat' Green
- Deep in the Heart as Kate Markham
1995
- Persuasion as Anne Elliott
1994
- Hildegard as Ricardis
- Harry Enfield and Chums as Miss Hetherington
- Love on a Branch Line as Miss Mounsey
1993
- The Man Who Cried as Hilda Maxwell
- The Buddha of Suburbia as 1st TV Producer
1992
- A Touch of Frost as Dolores Delmonte
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Kate (voice)
1990
- The BFG as Sophie (voice)
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Mrs Rendell
1987
- Mary Rose as Mary Rose
1986
- Casualty as Joyce Paice
1985
- Time for Murder as Sarah Penwarden
1983
- Natural World as Narrator