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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.
The roles that explain the career.
14 credits across 1 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Life Goes On | Judith | Film |
| 2020 | Summerland | Mrs. Lawrence | Film |
| 2017 | Their Finest | Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film) | Film |
| 2011 | The Iron Lady | Amanda | Film |
| 2007 | Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall | Mrs. Chart | Film |
| 2007 | The Robber Bride | Tony Fremont | Film |
| 2000 | Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? | Margaret Robinson | Film |
| 1998 | Mortimer's Law | Rachel Mortimer | TV |
| 1996 | Breaking the Code | Patricia 'Pat' Green | Film |
| 1996 | Jane Eyre | Miss Temple | Film |
| 1995 | Persuasion | Anne Elliott | Film |
| 1994 | Love on a Branch Line | Miss Mounsey | TV |
| 1993 | The Man Who Cried | Hilda Maxwell | Film |
| 1990 | The BFG | Sophie (voice) | Film |
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