Amanda Root
Acting
Born: 1963-01-01 · Chelmsford, Essex, England
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 th
🎬 Movies (20)
Life Goes On
2026
Judith
Allelujah
2023
Cynthia
Summerland
2020
Mrs. Lawrence
The Black Prince
2017
Queen Victoria
Their Finest
2017
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
The Iron Lady
2011
Amanda
Fiona's Story
2008
Julie
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
2007
Mrs. Chart
The Robber Bride
2007
Tony Fremont
Love Again
2003
Maeve Brennan
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
2001
Karen
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000
Margaret Robinson
Big Cat
1998
Alice
Deep in the Heart
1996
Kate Markham
Breaking the Code
1996
Patricia 'Pat' Green
Jane Eyre
1996
Miss Temple
Persuasion
1995
Anne Elliott
Hildegard
1994
Ricardis
The Man Who Cried
1993
Hilda Maxwell
The BFG
1990
Sophie (voice)
📺 TV Shows (20)
Baby Reindeer
2024
Elle Dunn
Baby Reindeer
2024
Elle Dunn (voice)
The Sixth Commandment
2023
Sue Farquhar
You & Me
2023
Richards
Remembers…
2022
Dalgliesh
2021
Sister Brumfett
The Sister
2020
June Fox
Patrick Melrose
2018
Virginia Watson-Scott
Wolf Hall
2015
Abbess Zouche
Call the Midwife
2012
Florrie Watkins
Death in Paradise
2011
Teresa Gower
Vera
2011
Deena Corbridge
Thorne
2010
Teresa Maxwell
Sherlock
2010
Emma Welsborough
Law & Order: UK
2009
The Impressionists
2006
Alice Hoschede
The Robinsons
2005
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
2004
Vera Sidney
London
2004
Charlotte Bronte
Little Britain
2003