Amanda Root
Acting
Born: 1963-01-01 in Chelmsford, Essex, England
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.
Known For
Midsomer Murders
Ruth Scholey
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs Rendell
Death in Paradise
Teresa Gower
Call the Midwife
Florrie Watkins
Sherlock
Emma Welsborough
Casualty
Joyce Paice
Vera
Deena Corbridge
Natural World
Narrator
A Touch of Frost
Dolores Delmonte
Waking the Dead
Lorna Gyles
Little Britain
Foyle's War
Elizabeth Lewes
Law & Order: UK
Remembers…
Dalgliesh
Sister Brumfett
Patrick Melrose
Virginia Watson-Scott
Rose and Maloney
Marsha Campese
Wolf Hall
Abbess Zouche
Baby Reindeer
Elle Dunn
Baby Reindeer
Elle Dunn (voice)
The Forsyte Saga
Winifred Dartie
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Kate (voice)
The Iron Lady
Amanda
The Afternoon Play
Andrea
Thorne
Teresa Maxwell
Their Finest
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
The Sister
June Fox
Worlds Beyond
Julia
Jane Eyre
Miss Temple
Persuasion
Anne Elliott
You & Me
Richards
Harry Enfield and Chums
Miss Hetherington
Daniel Deronda
Mrs Davilow
The Sixth Commandment
Sue Farquhar
The Robinsons
Maggie Robinson
Summerland
Mrs. Lawrence
The Buddha of Suburbia
1st TV Producer
Time for Murder
Sarah Penwarden
The BFG
Sophie (voice)