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Amanda Root

Amanda Root

Birthday: 1963-01-01 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
Summerland

as    Mrs. Lawrence

2007
The Robber Bride

as    Tony Fremont

2006
The Impressionists

as    Alice Hoschede

2002
Daniel Deronda

as    Mrs. Davilow

2001
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

as    Margaret Robinson

2000
Anna Karenina

as    Dolly

2000
Anna Karenina

as    Dolly

1996
Deep in the Heart

as    Kate Markham

1996
Breaking the Code

as    Patricia 'Pat' Green

1995
Persuasion

as    Anne Elliott

1994
The Buddha of Suburbia

as    1st TV Producer

1989
The BFG

as    Sophie (voice)