
Amanda Root
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Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1 January 1963 (63 years old)
Place of birthChelmsford, Essex, England
Known credits86
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.

Love of Your Life
2026 · Grief Therapist

The Blame
2026 · Pauline Chadwick

Life Goes On
2026 · Judith

Harlan Coben's Lazarus
2025 · Margot Macintyre

Britain Under the Nazis: The Forgotten Occupation
2025 · Winifred Harvey

Baby Reindeer
2024 · Elle Dunn

Baby Reindeer
2024 · Elle Dunn (voice)

The Sixth Commandment
2023 · Sue Farquhar

Allelujah
2023 · Cynthia

You & Me
2023 · Richards

Remembers…
2022

Dalgliesh
2021 · Sister Brumfett

Professor T
2021 · Emily Maclean

The Sister
2020 · June Fox

Summerland
2020 · Mrs. Lawrence

The Capture
2019 · Margaret

MotherFatherSon
2019 · Interviewer

Patrick Melrose
2018 · Virginia Watson-Scott

The Black Prince
2017 · Queen Victoria

Their Finest
2017 · Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)

Unforgotten
2015 · Carol Finch

Wolf Hall
2015 · Abbess Zouche

The Tunnel
2013 · Dr Cross

Count Arthur Strong
2013 · Karen

Call the Midwife
2012 · Florrie Watkins

The Iron Lady
2011 · Amanda

Death in Paradise
2011 · Teresa Gower

DCI Banks
2011 · Mary Rothwell

Vera
2011 · Deena Corbridge

Thorne
2010 · Teresa Maxwell

Sherlock
2010 · Emma Welsborough

Starship Farragut - The Animated Episodes
2009 · Lt Allison Bell

Law & Order: UK
2009 · Patricia Smith

Fiona's Story
2008 · Julie

Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
2007 · Mrs. Chart

The Robber Bride
2007 · Tony Fremont
Brief Encounters
2006 · June Makenzie

The Impressionists
2006 · Alice Hoschede

Empire
2005 · Noella

The Robinsons
2005 · Maggie Robinson

Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
2004 · Vera Sidney
London
2004 · Charlotte Bronte

New Tricks
2004 · Eleanor

The Adventure of English
2003 · Anne Elliot

Little Britain
2003 · Baby's Mother

Love Again
2003 · Maeve Brennan

The Afternoon Play
2003 · Andrea

Daniel Deronda
2002 · Mrs Davilow
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