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Amanda Root
AKA: 아만다 루트
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Born: 1963
Chelmsford, Essex, England
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Biography
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.
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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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| Show / Title | Year | Credit / Role |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Reindeer | 2024 | Elle Dunn |
| The Sixth Commandment | 2023 | Sue Farquhar |
| You & Me | 2023 | Richards |
| Remembers… | 2022 | Contributor |
| Dalgliesh | 2021 | Sister Brumfett |
| The Sister | 2020 | June Fox |
| Patrick Melrose | 2018 | Virginia Watson-Scott |
| Wolf Hall | 2015 | Abbess Zouche |
| Call the Midwife | 2012 | Florrie Watkins |
| Death in Paradise | 2011 | Teresa Gower |
| Vera | 2011 | Deena Corbridge |
| Thorne | 2010 | Teresa Maxwell |
| Law & Order: UK | 2009 | Contributor |
| The Robinsons | 2005 | Contributor |
| Little Britain | 2003 | Contributor |
| The Afternoon Play | 2003 | Andrea |
| Daniel Deronda | 2002 | Mrs Davilow |
| Foyle's War | 2002 | Elizabeth Lewes |
| Rose and Maloney | 2002 | Marsha Campese |
| The Forsyte Saga | 2002 | Winifred Dartie |
| All About Me | 2002 | Miranda |
| Waking the Dead | 2001 | Lorna Gyles |
| Midsomer Murders | 1997 | Ruth Scholey |
| A Touch of Frost | 1992 | Dolores Delmonte |
| Agatha Christie's Poirot | 1989 | Mrs Rendell |
| Worlds Beyond | 1986 | Julia |
| Casualty | 1986 | Joyce Paice |
| Natural World | 1983 | Narrator |