Amanda Root
ActingAlso Known As
아만다 루트
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.
Movies
(20 total)
The Iron Lady
as Amanda
Their Finest
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
Jane Eyre
as Miss Temple
Summerland
as Mrs. Lawrence
The BFG
as Sophie (voice)
Persuasion
as Anne Elliott
Allelujah
as Cynthia
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Margaret Robinson
Breaking the Code
as Patricia 'Pat' Green
The Black Prince
as Queen Victoria
The Robber Bride
as Tony Fremont
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
as Mrs. Chart
The Man Who Cried
as Hilda Maxwell
Hildegard
as Ricardis
Fiona's Story
as Julie
Mary Rose
as Mary Rose
Deep in the Heart
as Kate Markham
Love Again
as Maeve Brennan
TV Shows
(41 total)
Sherlock
as Emma Welsborough
Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn
Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn (voice)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs Rendell
Midsomer Murders
as Ruth Scholey
Death in Paradise
as Teresa Gower
Patrick Melrose
as Virginia Watson-Scott
Call the Midwife
as Florrie Watkins
Vera
as Deena Corbridge
Wolf Hall
as Abbess Zouche
Foyle's War
as Elizabeth Lewes
Casualty
as Joyce Paice
A Touch of Frost
as Dolores Delmonte
Dalgliesh
as Sister Brumfett
The Sixth Commandment
as Sue Farquhar
Waking the Dead
as Lorna Gyles
The Forsyte Saga
as Winifred Dartie
Daniel Deronda
as Mrs. Davilow