Amanda Root
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 1, 1963 (age 63)
- Place of birth
- Chelmsford, Essex, England
- Credits
- 65
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.
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Known for
Sherlock
2010TV
Emma Welsborough
The Iron Lady
2011Movie
Amanda
Baby Reindeer
2024TV
Elle Dunn, Elle Dunn (voice)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Mrs Rendell
Their Finest
2017Movie
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Ruth Scholey
Filmography
Life Goes On
2026Movie
Judith
Baby Reindeer
2024TV
Elle Dunn, Elle Dunn (voice)
The Sixth Commandment
2023TV
Sue Farquhar
Allelujah
2023Movie
Cynthia
You & Me
2023TV
Richards
Remembers…
2022TV
Dalgliesh
2021TV
Sister Brumfett
Professor T
2021TV
Emily Maclean
The Sister
2020TV
June Fox
Summerland
2020Movie
Mrs. Lawrence
Patrick Melrose
2018TV
Virginia Watson-Scott
The Black Prince
2017Movie
Queen Victoria
Their Finest
2017Movie
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
Wolf Hall
2015TV
Abbess Zouche
Call the Midwife
2012TV
Florrie Watkins
The Iron Lady
2011Movie
Amanda
Death in Paradise
2011TV
Teresa Gower
Vera
2011TV
Deena Corbridge
Thorne
2010TV
Teresa Maxwell
Sherlock
2010TV
Emma Welsborough
Law & Order: UK
2009TV
Fiona's Story
2008Movie
Julie
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
2007Movie
Mrs. Chart
The Robber Bride
2007Movie
Tony Fremont
The Impressionists
2006TV
Alice Hoschede
The Robinsons
2005TV
Maggie Robinson
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
2004TV
Vera Sidney
London
2004TV
Charlotte Bronte
Little Britain
2003TV
Love Again
2003Movie
Maeve Brennan
The Afternoon Play
2003TV
Andrea
Daniel Deronda
2002TV
Mrs Davilow
Foyle's War
2002TV
Elizabeth Lewes
Rose and Maloney
2002TV
Marsha Campese
The Forsyte Saga
2002TV
Winifred Dartie
All About Me
2002TV
Miranda
Marion & Geoff: A Small Summer Party
2001Movie
Karen
Waking the Dead
2001TV
Lorna Gyles
Anna Karenina
2000TV
Dolly
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000Movie
Margaret Robinson
Big Cat
1998Movie
Alice
Mortimer's Law
1998TV
Rachel Mortimer
Sunnyside Farm
1997TV
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Ruth Scholey
Original Sin
1997TV
Frances Peverell
Turning World
1997TV
Evelyn Sharples
Deep in the Heart
1996Movie
Kate Markham
Breaking the Code
1996Movie
Patricia 'Pat' Green
Jane Eyre
1996Movie
Miss Temple
Persuasion
1995Movie
Anne Elliott
The Taming of the Shrew
1994Movie
Kate (voice)
Harry Enfield and Chums
1994TV
Miss Hetherington
Love on a Branch Line
1994TV
Miss Mounsey
Hildegard
1994Movie
Ricardis
The Buddha of Suburbia
1993TV
1st TV Producer
The Man Who Cried
1993Movie
Hilda Maxwell
A Touch of Frost
1992TV
Dolores Delmonte
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992TV
Kate (voice)
The BFG
1990Movie
Sophie (voice)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Mrs Rendell
Mary Rose
1987Movie
Mary Rose
Worlds Beyond
1986TV
Julia
Casualty
1986TV
Joyce Paice
Time for Murder
1985TV
Sarah Penwarden
Natural World
1983TV
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