Amanda Root
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1 January 1963 · Chelmsford, Essex, England
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
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- 2026Life Goes On as Judith
- 2023Allelujah as Cynthia
- 2020Summerland as Mrs. Lawrence
- 2017The Black Prince as Queen Victoria
- 2017Their Finest as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
- 2011The Iron Lady as Amanda
- 2008Fiona's Story as Julie
- 2007Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall as Mrs. Chart
- 2007The Robber Bride as Tony Fremont
- 2003Love Again as Maeve Brennan
- 2001Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party as Karen
- 2000Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? as Margaret Robinson
- 1998Big Cat as Alice
- 1996Deep in the Heart as Kate Markham
- 1996Breaking the Code as Patricia 'Pat' Green
- 1996Jane Eyre as Miss Temple
- 1995Persuasion as Anne Elliott
- 1994The Taming of the Shrew as Kate (voice)
- 1994Hildegard as Ricardis
- 1993The Man Who Cried as Hilda Maxwell
- 1990The BFG as Sophie (voice)
- 1987Mary Rose as Mary Rose