Amanda Root
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.
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Filmography
Life Goes On
2026
as Judith
Allelujah
2023
as Cynthia
Summerland
2020
as Mrs. Lawrence
The Black Prince
2017
as Queen Victoria
Their Finest
2017
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
The Iron Lady
2011
as Amanda
Fiona's Story
2008
as Julie
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
2007
as Mrs. Chart
The Robber Bride
2007
as Tony Fremont
Love Again
2003
as Maeve Brennan
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
2001
as Karen
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000
as Margaret Robinson
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Big Cat
1998
as Alice
Deep in the Heart
1996
as Kate Markham
Breaking the Code
1996
as Patricia 'Pat' Green
Jane Eyre
1996
as Miss Temple
Persuasion
1995
as Anne Elliott
Hildegard
1994
as Ricardis
The Man Who Cried
1993
as Hilda Maxwell
The BFG
1990
as Sophie (voice)
Mary Rose
1987
as Mary Rose