Amanda Root
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1963-01-01 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
Chelmsford, Essex, England
Amanda Root
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.
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Acting
(2023)
Allelujah
as Cynthia
(2020)
Summerland
as Mrs. Lawrence
(2017)
Their Finest
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
(2017)
The Black Prince
as Queen Victoria
(2008)
Fiona's Story
as Julie
(2007)
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
as Mrs. Chart
(2007)
The Robber Bride
as Tony Fremont
(2003)
Love Again
as Maeve Brennan
(2001)
(2000)
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Margaret Robinson
(1998)
Big Cat
as Alice
(1996)
Jane Eyre
as Miss Temple
(1996)
Deep in the Heart
as Kate Markham
(1996)
Breaking the Code
as Patricia 'Pat' Green
(1995)
Persuasion
as Anne Elliott
(1994)
Hildegard
as Ricardis
(1993)
The Man Who Cried
as Hilda Maxwell
(1989)
The BFG
as Sophie (voice)
(1987)
Mary Rose
as Mary Rose