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.
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Midsomer Murders
1997
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Death in Paradise
2011
Casualty
1986
Call the Midwife
2012
Sherlock
2010
Vera
2011
Natural World
1983
A Touch of Frost
1992
Foyle's War
2002
Waking the Dead
2001
Law & Order: UK
2009
Patrick Melrose
2018
Little Britain
2003
Dalgliesh
2021
Remembers…
2022
Rose and Maloney
2002
Baby Reindeer
2024
Wolf Hall
2015
The Forsyte Saga
2002
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
The Afternoon Play
2003
The Iron Lady
2011
Their Finest
2017
Jane Eyre
1996
The Sister
2020
Persuasion
1995
Thorne
2010
Worlds Beyond
1986
Time for Murder
1985
The Robinsons
2005
Turning World
1997
Harry Enfield and Chums
1994
The BFG
1990
You & Me
2023
The Sixth Commandment
2023
The Buddha of Suburbia
1993
The Impressionists
2006
Daniel Deronda
2002
Love on a Branch Line
1994
Sunnyside Farm
1997
Summerland
2020
All About Me
2002
Original Sin
1997
Life Goes On
2026
Anna Karenina
2000
London
2004
Allelujah
2023
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
2004
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
2001
Hildegard
1994
Big Cat
1998
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
2007
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000
The Robber Bride
2007
The Man Who Cried
1993
The Black Prince
2017
Mortimer's Law
1998
Deep in the Heart
1996
Fiona's Story
2008
Love Again
2003
Breaking the Code
1996
Mary Rose
1987