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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 1, 1963
Place of Birth
Chelmsford, Essex, England
Also Known As
- 아만다 루트
Amanda Root
0.8 Popularity
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
7.6
Elle Dunn
Baby Reindeer
2024
7.6
Elle Dunn (voice)
Baby Reindeer
2024
6.6
Sue Farquhar
The Sixth Commandment
2023
5.2
Cynthia
Allelujah
2023
7.0
Richards
You & Me
2023
6.5
Sister Brumfett
Dalgliesh
2021
6.2
June Fox
The Sister
2020
7.5
Mrs. Lawrence
Summerland
2020
7.5
Virginia Watson-Scott
Patrick Melrose
2018
4.9
Queen Victoria
The Black Prince
2017
Credits
Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn
2024
7.6
Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn (voice)
2024
7.6
The Sixth Commandment
as Sue Farquhar
2023
6.6
Allelujah
as Cynthia
2023
5.2
You & Me
as Richards
2023
7.0
Dalgliesh
as Sister Brumfett
2021
6.5
The Sister
as June Fox
2020
6.2
Summerland
as Mrs. Lawrence
2020
7.5
Patrick Melrose
as Virginia Watson-Scott
2018
7.5
The Black Prince
as Queen Victoria
2017
4.9
Their Finest
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
2017
6.6
Wolf Hall
as Abbess Zouche
2015
7.5
Call the Midwife
as Florrie Watkins
2012
7.5
Death in Paradise
as Teresa Gower
2011
7.4
Vera
as Deena Corbridge
2011
7.4
Thorne
2010
6.3
Sherlock
as Emma Welsborough
2010
8.5
Law & Order: UK
2009
6.9
Fiona's Story
as Julie
2008
0.0
🎬
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
as Mrs. Chart
2007
5.1
The Robber Bride
as Tony Fremont
2007
4.8
The Impressionists
as Alice Hoschede
2006
7.5
The Robinsons
2005
6.0
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
as Vera Sidney
2004
0.0
🎬
London
as Charlotte Bronte
2004
0.0
Little Britain
2003
7.2
Love Again
as Maeve Brennan
2003
0.0
Daniel Deronda
as Mrs. Davilow
2002
7.7
Foyle's War
as Elizabeth Lewes
2002
7.9
Rose and Maloney
2002
6.3
The Forsyte Saga
2002
7.9
🎬
All About Me
as Miranda
2002
0.0
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
as Karen
2001
6.0
Waking the Dead
as Lorna Gyles
2001
7.2
Anna Karenina
as Dolly
2000
7.0
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Margaret Robinson
2000
6.1
🎬
Big Cat
as Alice
1998
0.0
🎬
Sunnyside Farm
1997
0.0
Midsomer Murders
as Ruth Scholey
1997
7.5
Original Sin
as Frances Peverell
1997
7.0
Deep in the Heart
as Kate Markham
1996
0.0
Breaking the Code
as Patricia 'Pat' Green
1996
5.4
Jane Eyre
as Miss Temple
1996
6.9
Persuasion
as Anne Elliott
1995
7.1
Harry Enfield and Chums
as Miss Hetherington
1994
7.1
Love on a Branch Line
as Miss Mounsey
1994
5.0
Hildegard
as Ricardis
1994
0.0
The Buddha of Suburbia
as 1st TV Producer
1993
6.2
The Man Who Cried
as Hilda Maxwell
1993
5.5
A Touch of Frost
as Dolores Delmonte
1992
7.5
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Kate (voice)
1992
6.4
The BFG
as Sophie (voice)
1989
6.4
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs Rendell
1989
8.2
Mary Rose
as Mary Rose
1987
0.0
Casualty
as Joyce Paice
1986
6.1
Time for Murder
as Sarah Penwarden
1985
4.0
Natural World
as Narrator
1983
7.1