Amanda Root
Born in Chelmsford, Essex, England — Jan 01 1963
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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, fu…
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Midsomer Murders
Ruth Scholey
Death in Paradise
Teresa Gower
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs Rendell
Casualty
Joyce Paice
Call the Midwife
Florrie Watkins
Sherlock
Emma Welsborough
Foyle's War
Elizabeth Lewes
Vera
Deena Corbridge
Waking the Dead
Lorna Gyles
Natural World
Narrator
A Touch of Frost
Dolores Delmonte
Law & Order: UK
Wolf Hall
Abbess Zouche
Little Britain
The Forsyte Saga
Winifred Dartie
Dalgliesh
Sister Brumfett
The Afternoon Play
Andrea
Baby Reindeer
Elle Dunn
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Kate (voice)
Rose and Maloney
Thorne
Teresa Maxwell
Patrick Melrose
Virginia Watson-Scott
Harry Enfield and Chums
Miss Hetherington
Worlds Beyond
Julia
Persuasion
Anne Elliott
Daniel Deronda
Mrs. Davilow
Time for Murder
Sarah Penwarden
Anna Karenina
Dolly
London
Charlotte Bronte
You & Me
Richards
The Robinsons
The Sister
June Fox
All About Me
Miranda
The Iron Lady
Amanda
The Sixth Commandment
Sue Farquhar
The Buddha of Suburbia
1st TV Producer
Original Sin
Frances Peverell
Jane Eyre
Miss Temple
Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
Vera Sidney
The Impressionists
Alice Hoschede
Their Finest
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
Summerland
Mrs. Lawrence
Sunnyside Farm
Allelujah
Cynthia
The Robber Bride
Tony Fremont
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
Mrs. Chart
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Karen
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Margaret Robinson
The BFG
Sophie (voice)
Big Cat
Alice
Fiona's Story
Julie
Love on a Branch Line
Miss Mounsey
Hildegard
Ricardis
Breaking the Code
Patricia 'Pat' Green
The Black Prince
Queen Victoria
Mary Rose
Mary Rose
Love Again
Maeve Brennan
The Man Who Cried
Hilda Maxwell
Deep in the Heart
Kate Markham
Life Goes On
Judith