Amanda Root
Acting
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.
Born: January 1, 1963
Place of Birth: Chelmsford, Essex, England
Known For
Sherlock
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Foyle's War
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga is a British-American drama television serial based on John Galsworthy's novel series of the same name. Taking place from the 1870s to the 1920s, three generations of the upper-middle-class Forsyte family are explored.
Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name. The serial was directed by Tom Hooper, produced by Louis Marks, and was first broadcast in three parts on BBC One from 23 November to 7 December 2002. The serial starred Hugh Dancy as Daniel Deronda, Romola Garai as Gwendolen Harleth, Hugh Bonneville as Henleigh Grandcourt, and Jodhi May as Mirah Lapidoth. Co-production funding came from WGBH Boston. Louis Marks originally wanted to make a film adaptation of the novel but abandoned the project after a lengthy and fruitless casting process. The drama took a further five years to make it to television screens. Filming ran for 11 weeks from May to August on locations in England, Scotland and Malta. The serial was Marks' final television production before his death in 2010.
Baby Reindeer
When a struggling comedian shows one act of kindness to a vulnerable woman, it sparks a suffocating obsession which threatens to wreck both their lives.
Baby Reindeer
When a struggling comedian shows one act of kindness to a vulnerable woman, it sparks a suffocating obsession which threatens to wreck both their lives.
Patrick Melrose
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
Call the Midwife
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Wolf Hall
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
Filmography
as Elle Dunn
as Elle Dunn (voice)
as Sue Farquhar
as Cynthia
as Richards
as Sister Brumfett
as June Fox
as Mrs. Lawrence
as Virginia Watson-Scott
as Queen Victoria
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
as Abbess Zouche
as Florrie Watkins
as Amanda
as Teresa Gower
as Deena Corbridge
as Emma Welsborough
as Julie
as Mrs. Chart
as Tony Fremont
as Alice Hoschede
as Vera Sidney
as Maeve Brennan
as Andrea
as Mrs. Davilow
as Elizabeth Lewes
as Winifred Dartie
as Lorna Gyles
as Dolly
as Margaret Robinson
as Ruth Scholey
as Frances Peverell
as Kate Markham
as Patricia 'Pat' Green
as Miss Temple
as Anne Elliott
as Miss Hetherington
as Miss Mounsey
as Ricardis
as 1st TV Producer
as Hilda Maxwell
as Dolores Delmonte
as Kate (voice)
as Sophie (voice)
as Mrs Rendell
as Mary Rose
as Joyce Paice
as Sarah Penwarden
as Narrator