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