Amanda Root
Known for ActingBorn 1963-01-01Chelmsford, Essex, England
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.
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She trained for the stage at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Known for
Jane Eyre
1996 · as Miss Temple
The Iron Lady
2011 · as Amanda
Persuasion
1995 · as Anne Elliott
Their Finest
2017 · as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
Summerland
2020 · as Mrs. Lawrence
Life Goes On
2026 · as Judith
Hildegard
1994 · as Ricardis
The BFG
1990 · as Sophie (voice)
Big Cat
1998 · as Alice
The Black Prince
2017 · as Queen Victoria
The Robber Bride
2007 · as Tony Fremont
Allelujah
2023 · as Cynthia
The Man Who Cried
1993 · as Hilda Maxwell
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
2001 · as Karen
Breaking the Code
1996 · as Patricia 'Pat' Green
Deep in the Heart
1996 · as Kate Markham
Fiona's Story
2008 · as Julie
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000 · as Margaret Robinson