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
2026
- Life Goes On as Judith
2024
- Baby Reindeer as Elle Dunn
2023
- The Sixth Commandment as Sue Farquhar
- You & Me as Richards
- Allelujah as Cynthia
2022
2021
- Dalgliesh as Sister Brumfett
2020
- The Sister as June Fox
- Summerland as Mrs. Lawrence
2018
- Patrick Melrose as Virginia Watson-Scott
2017
- Their Finest as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
- The Black Prince as Queen Victoria
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
- Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder as Vera Sidney
- London as Charlotte Bronte
2003
- Little Britain
- The Afternoon Play as Andrea
- Love Again as Maeve Brennan
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
- Anna Karenina as Dolly
- Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Margaret Robinson
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
- Harry Enfield and Chums as Miss Hetherington
- Love on a Branch Line as Miss Mounsey
- Hildegard as Ricardis
1993
- The Buddha of Suburbia as 1st TV Producer
- The Man Who Cried as Hilda Maxwell
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
- Worlds Beyond as Julia
1985
- Time for Murder as Sarah Penwarden
1983
- Natural World as Narrator