Amanda Root
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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Acting
TV
Sherlock
as Emma Welsborough
2010
Movie
The Iron Lady
as Amanda
2011
TV
Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn
2024
TV
Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn (voice)
2024
TV
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs Rendell
1989
Movie
Their Finest
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
2017
TV
Midsomer Murders
as Ruth Scholey
1997
TV
Death in Paradise
as Teresa Gower
2011
TV
Patrick Melrose
as Virginia Watson-Scott
2018
TV
Call the Midwife
as Florrie Watkins
2012
Movie
Jane Eyre
as Miss Temple
1996
TV
Little Britain
2003
Movie
Summerland
as Mrs. Lawrence
2020
Movie
The BFG
as Sophie (voice)
1990
TV
Vera
as Deena Corbridge
2011
TV
Wolf Hall
as Abbess Zouche
2015
Movie
Persuasion
as Anne Elliott
1995
TV
Foyle's War
as Elizabeth Lewes
2002
TV
Casualty
as Joyce Paice
1986
TV
A Touch of Frost
as Dolores Delmonte
1992
TV
Dalgliesh
as Sister Brumfett
2021
TV
The Sixth Commandment
as Sue Farquhar
2023
TV
The Forsyte Saga
as Winifred Dartie
2002
TV
Waking the Dead
as Lorna Gyles
2001