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Amanda Root

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: Acting

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

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1987	Mary Rose	Mary Rose	0
2	1989	The BFG	Sophie (voice)	64
3	1993	The Man Who Cried	Hilda Maxwell	55
4	1994	Hildegard	Ricardis	0
5	1995	Persuasion	Anne Elliott	71
6	1996	Jane Eyre	Miss Temple	69
7	1996	Breaking the Code	Patricia 'Pat' Green	54
8	1996	Deep in the Heart	Kate Markham	0
9	1998	Big Cat	Alice	0
10	2000	Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?	Margaret Robinson	61
11	2001	Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party	Karen	60
12	2003	Love Again	Maeve Brennan	0
13	2007	The Robber Bride	Tony Fremont	48
14	2007	Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall	Mrs. Chart	51
15	2008	Fiona's Story	Julie	0
16	2017	Their Finest	Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)	66
17	2017	The Black Prince	Queen Victoria	49
18	2020	Summerland	Mrs. Lawrence	76
19	2023	Allelujah	Cynthia	52

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1983	Natural World	Narrator	71
2	1985	Time for Murder	Sarah Penwarden	40
3	1986	Casualty	Joyce Paice	61
4	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Mrs Rendell	82
5	1992	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Kate (voice)	64
6	1992	A Touch of Frost	Dolores Delmonte	75
7	1993	The Buddha of Suburbia	1st TV Producer	62
8	1994	Love on a Branch Line	Miss Mounsey	50
9	1994	Harry Enfield and Chums	Miss Hetherington	71
10	1997	Original Sin	Frances Peverell	70
11	1997	Midsomer Murders	Ruth Scholey	75
12	1997	Sunnyside Farm		0
13	2000	Anna Karenina	Dolly	70
14	2001	Waking the Dead	Lorna Gyles	72
15	2002	All About Me	Miranda	0
16	2002	The Forsyte Saga	Winifred Dartie	79
17	2002	Rose and Maloney		62
18	2002	Foyle's War	Elizabeth Lewes	79
19	2002	Daniel Deronda	Mrs. Davilow	77
20	2003	Little Britain		72
21	2004	London	Charlotte Bronte	0
22	2004	Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder	Vera Sidney	0
23	2005	The Robinsons		60
24	2006	The Impressionists	Alice Hoschede	75
25	2009	Law & Order: UK		69
26	2010	Sherlock	Emma Welsborough	85
27	2010	Thorne		63
28	2011	Vera	Deena Corbridge	74
29	2011	Death in Paradise	Teresa Gower	74
30	2012	Call the Midwife	Florrie Watkins	75
31	2015	Wolf Hall	Abbess Zouche	75
32	2018	Patrick Melrose	Virginia Watson-Scott	75
33	2020	The Sister	June Fox	62
34	2021	Dalgliesh	Sister Brumfett	66
35	2023	You & Me	Richards	63
36	2023	The Sixth Commandment	Sue Farquhar	66
37	2024	Baby Reindeer	Elle Dunn	76
38	2024	Baby Reindeer	Elle Dunn (voice)	76