Amanda Root

Personal Info

Birthday

January 1, 1963

(62 years old)

Place of Birth

Chelmsford, Essex, England

Also Known As

아만다 루트

Amanda Root

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

Midsomer Murders

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Death in Paradise

Vera

Sherlock

Call the Midwife

Foyle's War

A Touch of Frost

Filmography

2023
Allelujah
as Cynthia
2020
Summerland
as Mrs. Lawrence
2017
The Black Prince
as Queen Victoria
Their Finest
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
2011
The Iron Lady
as Amanda
2008
Fiona's Story
as Julie
2007
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
as Mrs. Chart
The Robber Bride
as Tony Fremont
2003
Love Again
as Maeve Brennan
2001
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
as Karen
2000
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Margaret Robinson
1998
Big Cat
as Alice
1996
Deep in the Heart
as Kate Markham
Breaking the Code
as Patricia 'Pat' Green
Jane Eyre
as Miss Temple
1995
Persuasion
as Anne Elliott
1994
Hildegard
as Ricardis
1993
The Man Who Cried
as Hilda Maxwell
1989
The BFG
as Sophie (voice)
1987
Mary Rose
as Mary Rose