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