Amanda Root
Known For
Acting
Born
1963-01-01 in Chelmsford, Essex, England
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amanda Root, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Midsomer Murders
as Ruth Scholey
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs Rendell
Death in Paradise
as Teresa Gower
Vera
as Deena Corbridge
Call the Midwife
as Florrie Watkins
Sherlock
as Emma Welsborough
Foyle's War
as Elizabeth Lewes
Casualty
as Joyce Paice
Waking the Dead
as Lorna Gyles
Natural World
as Narrator
A Touch of Frost
as Dolores Delmonte
Little Britain
Wolf Hall
as Abbess Zouche
Dalgliesh
as Sister Brumfett
Patrick Melrose
as Virginia Watson-Scott
Law & Order: UK
Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn
Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn (voice)
The Forsyte Saga
as Winifred Dartie
