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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Known for
Midsomer Murders
Ruth Scholey
Death in Paradise
Teresa Gower
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs Rendell
Casualty
Joyce Paice
Vera
Deena Corbridge
Call the Midwife
Florrie Watkins
Sherlock
Emma Welsborough
Foyle's War
Elizabeth Lewes
Natural World
Narrator
Waking the Dead
Lorna Gyles
A Touch of Frost
Dolores Delmonte
Law & Order: UK
Dalgliesh
Sister Brumfett
Wolf Hall
Abbess Zouche
Little Britain
The Forsyte Saga
Winifred Dartie
Baby Reindeer
Elle Dunn
Baby Reindeer
Elle Dunn (voice)
Jane Eyre
Miss Temple
The Iron Lady
Amanda
Persuasion
Anne Elliott
Patrick Melrose
Virginia Watson-Scott
Thorne
Their Finest
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
The Black Prince
Queen Victoria
Allelujah
Cynthia
The BFG
Sophie (voice)
London
Charlotte Bronte
Summerland
Mrs. Lawrence
The Afternoon Play
Andrea
Rose and Maloney
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Kate (voice)
Breaking the Code
Patricia 'Pat' Green
Daniel Deronda
Mrs. Davilow
You & Me
Richards
Harry Enfield and Chums
Miss Hetherington
Mary Rose
Mary Rose
Anna Karenina
Dolly
Deep in the Heart
Kate Markham
The Robber Bride
Tony Fremont
The Robinsons
Time for Murder
Sarah Penwarden
Love Again
Maeve Brennan
The Sister
June Fox
All About Me
Miranda
Original Sin
Frances Peverell
Hildegard
Ricardis
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Karen
The Buddha of Suburbia
1st TV Producer
Big Cat
Alice
The Sixth Commandment
Sue Farquhar
The Man Who Cried
Hilda Maxwell
The Impressionists
Alice Hoschede
Sunnyside Farm
Love on a Branch Line
Miss Mounsey
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
Vera Sidney
Fiona's Story
Julie
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Margaret Robinson
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
Mrs. Chart