Actor
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. Description above from th ...

Known For
Acting
2023 -- Allelujah | Cynthia
2020 -- Summerland | Mrs. Lawrence
2017 -- The Black Prince | Queen Victoria
2017 -- Their Finest | Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
2008 -- Fiona's Story | Julie
2007 -- Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall | Mrs. Chart
2007 -- The Robber Bride | Tony Fremont
2003 -- Love Again | Maeve Brennan
2001 -- Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party | Karen
2000 -- Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | Margaret Robinson
1996 -- Deep in the Heart | Kate Markham
1996 -- Breaking the Code | Patricia 'Pat' Green
1996 -- Jane Eyre | Miss Temple
1995 -- Persuasion | Anne Elliott
1994 -- Hildegard | Ricardis
1993 -- The Man Who Cried | Hilda Maxwell
1989 -- The BFG | Sophie (voice)
1987 -- Mary Rose | Mary Rose
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