Rebecca Root

Born: 1969-05-10, Woking, Surrey, England, UK

Biography

Rebecca Root is an English actress, comedian and voice coach. She was rated 18th in The Independent on Sunday's Rainbow List 2014, which named her as one of the very few openly transgender actresses in mainstream television, alongside Laverne Cox and Adèle Anderson.

Filmography

• Casualty (1986)
• Sex Education (2019)
• Hollyoaks (1995)
• The Wheel of Time (2021)
• Keeping Up Appearances (1990)
• The Queen's Gambit (2020)
• Heartstopper (2022)
• Monsieur Spade (2024)
• Annika (2021)
• Heartstopper Forever (2026)
• The Danish Girl (2015)
• Last Christmas (2019)
• The Sisters Brothers (2018)
• The Rising (2022)
• Colette (2018)
• This Is Christmas (2022)
• Creation Stories (2021)
• Eddie Elise (2018)
• Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe (2016)
• The Gallery (2022)
• The Breakdown of a Toxic Relationship as told by Fluffmeister, a Poodle of Questionable Heritage (2025)
• Approach/Withdraw (2016)