Amanda Root
Born: 1963-01-01
• 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.
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Filmography
Allelujah
Summerland
The Black Prince
Their Finest
The Iron Lady
Fiona's Story
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
The Robber Bride
Love Again
Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
No Image
Big Cat
Deep in the Heart
Breaking the Code
Jane Eyre
Persuasion
Hildegard
The Man Who Cried
The BFG
Mary Rose