Amanda Root

Born: 1963-01-01, Chelmsford, Essex, England

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.

Filmography

• Midsomer Murders (1997)
• Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
• Death in Paradise (2011)
• Call the Midwife (2012)
• Casualty (1986)
• Sherlock (2010)
• Vera (2011)
• A Touch of Frost (1992)
• Waking the Dead (2001)
• Foyle's War (2002)
• Law & Order: UK (2009)
• Dalgliesh (2021)
• Wolf Hall (2015)
• Patrick Melrose (2018)
• Rose and Maloney (2002)
• The Forsyte Saga (2002)
• Thorne (2010)
• The Afternoon Play (2003)
• The Iron Lady (2011)
• Their Finest (2017)
• Persuasion (1995)
• Daniel Deronda (2002)
• The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
• The Robinsons (2005)
• Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder (2004)
• The Impressionists (2006)
• Love on a Branch Line (1994)
• The Black Prince (2017)
• Allelujah (2023)
• Hildegard (1994)