Amanda Root
Acting Born Jan 1, 1963 Chelmsford, Essex, England 24 credits
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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Full filmography
- Midsomer Murders (1997) as Ruth Scholey
- Death in Paradise (2011) as Teresa Gower
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) as Mrs Rendell
- Vera (2011) as Deena Corbridge
- Casualty (1986) as Joyce Paice
- Call the Midwife (2012) as Florrie Watkins
- Natural World (1983) as Narrator
- Sherlock (2010) as Emma Welsborough
- Waking the Dead (2001) as Lorna Gyles
- A Touch of Frost (1992) as Dolores Delmonte
- Foyle's War (2002) as Elizabeth Lewes
- Law & Order: UK (2009)
- Wolf Hall (2015) as Abbess Zouche
- Dalgliesh (2021) as Sister Brumfett
- Little Britain (2003)
- Remembers… (2022)
- Baby Reindeer (2024) as Elle Dunn
- Baby Reindeer (2024) as Elle Dunn (voice)
- Patrick Melrose (2018) as Virginia Watson-Scott
- The Forsyte Saga (2002) as Winifred Dartie
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992) as Kate (voice)
- The Afternoon Play (2003) as Andrea
- Jane Eyre (1996) as Miss Temple
- Harry Enfield and Chums (1994) as Miss Hetherington