Amanda Root
Acting1963Chelmsford, Essex, England
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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Known For
Acting History
2025
Vera
TVas Deena Corbridge• 1 eps
2024
Wolf Hall
TVas Abbess Zouche• 4 eps
Baby Reindeer
TVas Elle Dunn / Elle Dunn (voice)• 1 eps
2023
The Sixth Commandment
TVas Sue Farquhar
2021
Dalgliesh
TVas Sister Brumfett• 2 eps
2020
2018
Patrick Melrose
TVas Virginia Watson-Scott• 1 eps
2017
Their Finest
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
Sherlock
TVas Emma Welsborough• 1 eps
2015
Death in Paradise
TVas Teresa Gower• 1 eps
2011
The Iron Lady
as Amanda
2010
Thorne
TVas Teresa Maxwell
2008
Fiona's Story
as Julie
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TVas Mrs Rendell• 1 eps
2007
The Robber Bride
as Tony Fremont
2006
The Impressionists
TVas Alice Hoschede• 3 eps
The Afternoon Play
TVas Andrea• 1 eps
2005
Natural World
TVas Narrator• 1 eps
2004
London
TVas Charlotte Bronte• 3 eps
2003
Love Again
as Maeve Brennan
Midsomer Murders
TVas Ruth Scholey• 1 eps
A Touch of Frost
TVas Dolores Delmonte• 1 eps
Foyle's War
TVas Elizabeth Lewes• 1 eps
2002
Daniel Deronda
TVas Mrs. Davilow
Waking the Dead
TVas Lorna Gyles• 2 eps
The Forsyte Saga
TVas Winifred Dartie• 10 eps
1996
Jane Eyre
as Miss Temple
1995
Persuasion
as Anne Elliott
1994
Harry Enfield and Chums
TVas Miss Hetherington
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
TVas Kate (voice)• 1 eps
1993
The Buddha of Suburbia
TVas 1st TV Producer
1990
The BFG
as Sophie (voice)
1987
Mary Rose
as Mary Rose
1986
Casualty
TVas Joyce Paice