Amanda Root
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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.
Known for
Credits
Love of Your Life (2026)
as Grief Therapist
Their Finest (2017)
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
The Iron Lady (2011)
as Amanda
Marion & Geoff: A Small Summer Party (2001)
as Karen
Persuasion (1995)
as Anne Elliott
Jane Eyre (1996)
as Miss Temple
Summerland (2020)
as Mrs. Lawrence
The Taming of the Shrew (1994)
as Kate (voice)
Hildegard (1994)
as Ricardis
Big Cat (1998)
as Alice
Life Goes On (2026)
as Judith
Allelujah (2023)
as Cynthia
The BFG (1990)
as Sophie (voice)
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (2000)
as Margaret Robinson
The Man Who Cried (1993)
as Hilda Maxwell
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall (2007)
as Mrs. Chart
The House of Bernarda Alba (1991)
as Adela
The Black Prince (2017)
as Queen Victoria
Deep in the Heart (1996)
as Kate Markham
Fiona's Story (2008)
as Julie
The Robber Bride (2007)
as Tony Fremont
Breaking the Code (1996)
as Patricia 'Pat' Green
Love Again (2003)
as Maeve Brennan
Mary Rose (1987)
as Mary Rose