Actor profile

Amanda Root

1st January 1963 Chelmsford, Essex, England Acting

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.

21 Movies 40 TV Shows 61 Credits

Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Life Goes On poster

Life Goes On 24th April 2026 as Judith

Allelujah poster

Allelujah 17th March 2023 as Cynthia

Summerland poster

Summerland 24th July 2020 as Mrs. Lawrence

The Black Prince poster

The Black Prince 21st July 2017 as Queen Victoria

Their Finest poster

Their Finest 19th February 2017 as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)

The Iron Lady poster

The Iron Lady 26th December 2011 as Amanda

Fiona's Story poster

Fiona's Story 31st August 2008 as Julie

Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall poster

Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall 9th May 2007 as Mrs. Chart

The Robber Bride poster

The Robber Bride 3rd March 2007 as Tony Fremont

Love Again poster

Love Again 26th July 2003 as Maeve Brennan

Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party poster

Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party 3rd September 2001 as Karen

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? poster

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? 10th March 2000 as Margaret Robinson

Big Cat 6th September 1998 as Alice

Deep in the Heart poster

Deep in the Heart 10th October 1996 as Kate Markham

Breaking the Code poster

Breaking the Code 17th September 1996 as Patricia 'Pat' Green

Jane Eyre poster

Jane Eyre 20th January 1996 as Miss Temple

Persuasion poster

Persuasion 1st May 1995 as Anne Elliott

Hildegard poster

Hildegard 3rd January 1994 as Ricardis

The Man Who Cried poster

The Man Who Cried 25th May 1993 as Hilda Maxwell

The BFG poster

The BFG 25th December 1990 as Sophie (voice)

Mary Rose poster

Mary Rose 1st January 1987 as Mary Rose

Baby Reindeer poster

Baby Reindeer 11th April 2024 as Elle Dunn (voice)

The Sixth Commandment poster

The Sixth Commandment 17th July 2023 as Sue Farquhar

You & Me poster

You & Me 23rd February 2023 as Richards

Remembers… poster

Remembers… 29th June 2022

Dalgliesh poster

Dalgliesh 4th November 2021 as Sister Brumfett

The Sister poster

The Sister 26th October 2020 as June Fox

Patrick Melrose poster

Patrick Melrose 12th May 2018 as Virginia Watson-Scott

Wolf Hall poster

Wolf Hall 21st January 2015 as Abbess Zouche

Call the Midwife poster

Call the Midwife 15th January 2012 as Florrie Watkins

Death in Paradise poster

Death in Paradise 25th October 2011 as Teresa Gower

Vera poster

Vera 1st May 2011 as Deena Corbridge

Thorne poster

Thorne 10th October 2010 as Teresa Maxwell

Sherlock poster

Sherlock 25th July 2010 as Emma Welsborough

Law & Order: UK poster

Law & Order: UK 23rd February 2009

The Impressionists poster

The Impressionists 30th April 2006 as Alice Hoschede

The Robinsons poster

The Robinsons 5th May 2005

Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder poster

Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder 16th October 2004 as Vera Sidney

London 7th May 2004 as Charlotte Bronte

Little Britain poster

Little Britain 16th September 2003

The Afternoon Play poster

The Afternoon Play 27th January 2003 as Andrea

Daniel Deronda poster

Daniel Deronda 23rd November 2002 as Mrs Davilow

Foyle's War poster

Foyle's War 27th October 2002 as Elizabeth Lewes

Rose and Maloney poster

Rose and Maloney 29th September 2002

The Forsyte Saga poster

The Forsyte Saga 7th April 2002 as Winifred Dartie

All About Me poster

All About Me 8th March 2002 as Miranda

Waking the Dead poster

Waking the Dead 18th June 2001 as Lorna Gyles

Anna Karenina poster

Anna Karenina 9th May 2000 as Dolly

Sunnyside Farm 18th April 1997

Midsomer Murders poster

Midsomer Murders 23rd March 1997 as Ruth Scholey

Original Sin poster

Original Sin 20th March 1997 as Frances Peverell

Harry Enfield and Chums poster

Harry Enfield and Chums 4th November 1994 as Miss Hetherington

Love on a Branch Line poster

Love on a Branch Line 12th June 1994 as Miss Mounsey

The Buddha of Suburbia poster

The Buddha of Suburbia 3rd November 1993 as 1st TV Producer

A Touch of Frost poster

A Touch of Frost 6th December 1992 as Dolores Delmonte

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales poster

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales 9th November 1992 as Kate (voice)

Agatha Christie's Poirot poster

Agatha Christie's Poirot 8th January 1989 as Mrs Rendell

Worlds Beyond poster

Worlds Beyond 10th October 1986 as Julia

Casualty poster

Casualty 6th September 1986 as Joyce Paice

Time for Murder poster

Time for Murder 9th November 1985 as Sarah Penwarden

Natural World poster

Natural World 30th October 1983 as Narrator