Amanda Root
Acting
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.
TV Shows(40)
Baby Reindeer
Elle Dunn
2024
The Sixth Commandment
Sue Farquhar
2023
You & Me
Richards
2023
Remembers…
2022
Dalgliesh
Sister Brumfett
2021
The Sister
June Fox
2020
Patrick Melrose
Virginia Watson-Scott
2018
Wolf Hall
Abbess Zouche
2015
Call the Midwife
Florrie Watkins
2012
Death in Paradise
Teresa Gower
2011
Vera
Deena Corbridge
2011
Thorne
Teresa Maxwell
2010
Sherlock
Emma Welsborough
2010
Law & Order: UK
2009
The Impressionists
Alice Hoschede
2006
The Robinsons
2005
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
Vera Sidney
2004
London
Charlotte Bronte
2004
Little Britain
2003
The Afternoon Play
Andrea
2003
Daniel Deronda
Mrs Davilow
2002
Foyle's War
Elizabeth Lewes
2002
Rose and Maloney
2002
The Forsyte Saga
Winifred Dartie
2002
All About Me
Miranda
2002
Waking the Dead
Lorna Gyles
2001
Anna Karenina
Dolly
2000
Sunnyside Farm
1997
Midsomer Murders
Ruth Scholey
1997
Original Sin
Frances Peverell
1997
Harry Enfield and Chums
Miss Hetherington
1994
Love on a Branch Line
Miss Mounsey
1994
The Buddha of Suburbia
1st TV Producer
1993
A Touch of Frost
Dolores Delmonte
1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Kate (voice)
1992
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs Rendell
1989
Worlds Beyond
Julia
1986
Casualty
Joyce Paice
1986
Time for Murder
Sarah Penwarden
1985
Natural World
Narrator
1983
Movies(21)
Life Goes On
Judith
2026
Allelujah
Cynthia
2023
Summerland
Mrs. Lawrence
2020
The Black Prince
Queen Victoria
2017
Their Finest
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
2017
The Iron Lady
Amanda
2011
Fiona's Story
Julie
2008
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
Mrs. Chart
2007
The Robber Bride
Tony Fremont
2007
Love Again
Maeve Brennan
2003
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Karen
2001
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Margaret Robinson
2000
Big Cat
Alice
1998
Deep in the Heart
Kate Markham
1996
Breaking the Code
Patricia 'Pat' Green
1996
Jane Eyre
Miss Temple
1996
Persuasion
Anne Elliott
1995
Hildegard
Ricardis
1994
The Man Who Cried
Hilda Maxwell
1993
The BFG
Sophie (voice)
1990
Mary Rose
Mary Rose
1987