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Aliases: 아만다 루트

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Chelmsford, Essex, England

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Movie Involvements: 14

TV Involvements: 15


Most Famous Work

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 Famous Work

Midsomer Murders
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8

Midsomer Murders

(1997) Ruth Scholey
Agatha Christie's Poirot
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8

Agatha Christie's Poirot

(1989) Mrs Rendell
Waking the Dead
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7

Waking the Dead

(2000) Lorna Gyles
Casualty
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6

Casualty

(1986) Joyce Paice
Sherlock
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9

Sherlock

(2010) Emma Welsborough
Natural World
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7

Natural World

(1983) Narrator
Jane Eyre
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7

Jane Eyre

(1996) Miss Temple
Their Finest
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7

Their Finest

(2017) Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Sue Farquhar
Cynthia
Richards
2021 Sister Brumfett
2020 June Fox
Mrs. Lawrence
2018 Virginia Watson-Scott
2017 Queen Victoria
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
2011 Teresa Gower
2010 N/A
Emma Welsborough
2009 N/A
2008 Julie
2007 Mrs. Chart
Tony Fremont
2006 Alice Hoschede
2005 N/A
2004 Vera Sidney
Charlotte Bronte
2003 N/A
Maeve Brennan
2002 N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Miranda
2001 Karen
2000 Lorna Gyles
Dolly
Margaret Robinson
1997 N/A
Ruth Scholey
Frances Peverell
1996 Kate Markham
Patricia 'Pat' Green
Miss Temple
1995 Anne Elliott
1994 Miss Mounsey
1993 1st TV Producer
Hilda Maxwell
1992 N/A
Kate (voice)
1989 Sophie (voice)
Mrs Rendell
1987 Mary Rose
1986 Joyce Paice
1983 Narrator
Year Character Movie/Tv

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