Amanda Root

Acting

Amanda Root

Born 1963-01-01 Chelmsford, Essex, England 21 films

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 …

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Filmography

21 films
Life Goes On poster

BILL is in end of life care waiting for the sweet release of death - but unfortunately for him he i…

Life Goes On

★ 0.0 2026

Allelujah poster

When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the ho…

Allelujah

★ 5.2 2023

Summerland poster

A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be r…

Summerland

★ 7.5 2020

Their Finest poster

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resil…

Their Finest

★ 6.6 2017

The Iron Lady poster

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a fo…

The Iron Lady

★ 6.4 2011

Love Again poster

Dramatisation of the romantic life and various relationships of poet Philip Larkin, from his arriva…

Love Again

★ 10.0 2003