Acting credits
80
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Amanda Root
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 23Series: 57
TMDB ID: 30318
IMDb ID: nm0740500
Known for: Acting
Born: January 1, 1963
Age: 63
Place of birth: Chelmsford, Essex, England
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1978 - 2026
Years active: 49
Average TMDB rating: 7.09
Wikidata: Q454111
Also known as
아만다 루트
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.
Movies
Movie credits linked with Amanda Root.
Love of Your Life
as Grief Therapist
2026 Movie
Life Goes On
as Judith
2026 Movie
Allelujah
as Cynthia
2023 Movie
Summerland
as Mrs. Lawrence
2020 Movie
The Black Prince
as Queen Victoria
2017 Movie
Their Finest
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
2017 Movie
The Iron Lady
as Amanda
2011 Movie
Fiona's Story
as Julie
2008 Movie
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
as Mrs. Chart
2007 Movie
The Robber Bride
as Tony Fremont
2007 Movie
Love Again
as Maeve Brennan
2003 Movie
Marion & Geoff: A Small Summer Party
as Karen
2001 Movie
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Margaret Robinson
2000 Movie
Deep in the Heart
as Kate Markham
1996 Movie
Breaking the Code
as Patricia 'Pat' Green
1996 Movie
Jane Eyre
as Miss Temple
1996 Movie
Persuasion
as Anne Elliott
1995 Movie
The Taming of the Shrew
as Kate (voice)
1994 Movie
Hildegard
as Ricardis
1994 Movie
The Man Who Cried
as Hilda Maxwell
1993 Movie
The House of Bernarda Alba
as Adela
1991 Movie
The BFG
as Sophie (voice)
1990 Movie
Mary Rose
as Mary Rose
1987 Movie
Series
Series credits linked with Amanda Root.
The Blame
as Pauline Chadwick • 1 eps
2026 Series
Harlan Coben's Lazarus
as Margot Macintyre • 6 eps
2025 Series
Britain Under the Nazis: The Forgotten Occupation
as Winifred Harvey • 2 eps
2025 Series
Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn • 2 eps
2024 Series
The Sixth Commandment
as Sue Farquhar • 4 eps
2023 Series
You & Me
as Richards • 2 eps
2023 Series
Remembers…
1 eps
2022 Series
Dalgliesh
as Sister Brumfett • 2 eps
2021 Series
Professor T
as Emily Maclean • 1 eps
2021 Series
The Sister
as June Fox • 4 eps
2020 Series
The Capture
as Margaret • 1 eps
2019 Series
MotherFatherSon
as Interviewer • 1 eps
2019 Series
Patrick Melrose
as Virginia Watson-Scott • 1 eps
2018 Series
Unforgotten
as Carol Finch • 6 eps
2015 Series
Wolf Hall
as Abbess Zouche • 4 eps
2015 Series
The Tunnel
as Dr Cross • 1 eps
2013 Series
Count Arthur Strong
as Karen • 1 eps
2013 Series
Call the Midwife
as Florrie Watkins • 1 eps
2012 Series
Death in Paradise
as Teresa Gower • 1 eps
2011 Series
DCI Banks
as Mary Rothwell • 2 eps
2011 Series
Vera
as Deena Corbridge • 1 eps
2011 Series
Thorne
as Teresa Maxwell • 1 eps
2010 Series
Sherlock
as Emma Welsborough • 1 eps
2010 Series
Starship Farragut - The Animated Episodes
as Lt Allison Bell • 1 eps
2009 Series