Actor
Amanda Root
Born 1963 · Chelmsford, Essex, England
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.
Acting
Sherlock
Emma Welsborough · 2010
Baby Reindeer
Elle Dunn · 2024
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs Rendell · 1989
The Iron Lady
Amanda · 2011
Midsomer Murders
Ruth Scholey · 1997
Patrick Melrose
Virginia Watson-Scott · 2018
Death in Paradise
Teresa Gower · 2011
Call the Midwife
Florrie Watkins · 2012
Summerland
Mrs. Lawrence · 2020
Their Finest
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film) · 2017
Vera
Deena Corbridge · 2011
Jane Eyre
Miss Temple · 1996
Wolf Hall
Abbess Zouche · 2015
Foyle's War
Elizabeth Lewes · 2002
Persuasion
Anne Elliott · 1995
A Touch of Frost
Dolores Delmonte · 1992
The BFG
Sophie (voice) · 1990
The Forsyte Saga
Winifred Dartie · 2002
Daniel Deronda
Mrs Davilow · 2002
Waking the Dead
Lorna Gyles · 2001
Dalgliesh
Sister Brumfett · 2021
Casualty
Joyce Paice · 1986
The Sixth Commandment
Sue Farquhar · 2023
Natural World
Narrator · 1983