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