Amanda Root
Acting
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
Persuasion
1995
Jane Eyre
1996
Mary Rose
1987
The Man Who Cried
1993
The BFG
1990
The Iron Lady
2011
Allelujah
2023
Love Again
2003
Deep in the Heart
1996
Summerland
2020
Their Finest
2017
Hildegard
1994
The Black Prince
2017
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
2001
The Robber Bride
2007
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000
Breaking the Code
1996
Fiona's Story
2008
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
2007
TV Shows
Midsomer Murders
1997
Death in Paradise
2011
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Vera
2011
Call the Midwife
2012
Sherlock
2010
Foyle's War
2002
Casualty
1986
Waking the Dead
2001
A Touch of Frost
1992
Natural World
1983
Dalgliesh
2021
Little Britain
2003
Wolf Hall
2015
Law & Order: UK
2009
Baby Reindeer
2024
Baby Reindeer
2024
The Forsyte Saga
2002
Patrick Melrose
2018
Rose and Maloney
2002