Amanda Root

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1963-01-01 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

Chelmsford, Essex, England

Amanda Root

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.

Acting

2008

2023

Allelujah

as Cynthia

2007

The Robber Bride

as Tony Fremont

1989

The BFG

as Sophie (voice)

1995

Persuasion

as Anne Elliott

1996

Jane Eyre

as Miss Temple

2000

1987

Mary Rose

as Mary Rose

1994

Hildegard

as Ricardis

2017

Their Finest

as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)

1993

The Man Who Cried

as Hilda Maxwell

1996

Breaking the Code

as Patricia 'Pat' Green

1996

Deep in the Heart

as Kate Markham

2017

The Black Prince

as Queen Victoria

2003

Love Again

as Maeve Brennan

2020

Summerland

as Mrs. Lawrence

1998

Big Cat

as Alice

2011

The Iron Lady

as Amanda

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