Amanda Root
Department: 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.
Known For
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
2007
Fiona's Story
2008
Allelujah
2023
The Robber Bride
2007
The BFG
1990
Persuasion
1995
Jane Eyre
1996
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
2001
Mary Rose
1987
Hildegard
1994
Their Finest
2017
The Man Who Cried
1993
Breaking the Code
1996
Deep in the Heart
1996
The Black Prince
2017
Love Again
2003
Summerland
2020
Big Cat
1998
The Iron Lady
2011
Life Goes On
2026
Midsomer Murders
1997
All About Me
2002
A Touch of Frost
1992
Foyle's War
2002
Waking the Dead
2001
Law & Order: UK
2009
The Forsyte Saga
2002
The Robinsons
2005
Anna Karenina
2000
Patrick Melrose
2018
Love on a Branch Line
1994
Daniel Deronda
2002
Natural World
1983
Dalgliesh
2021
The Sixth Commandment
2023
London
2004
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
2004
Little Britain
2003
Original Sin
1997
Rose and Maloney
2002
Sunnyside Farm
1997
Sherlock
2010
Casualty
1986
You & Me
2023
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
The Buddha of Suburbia
1993
The Impressionists
2006
Call the Midwife
2012
The Sister
2020
Baby Reindeer
2024
Baby Reindeer
2024
Death in Paradise
2011
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
Wolf Hall
2015
Vera
2011
Harry Enfield and Chums
1994
The Afternoon Play
2003
Thorne
2010
Remembers…
2022
Worlds Beyond
1986
Time for Murder
1985