Amanda Root

Actor, Additional Crew, Soundtrack

Birthplace: Essex, England, UK

Amanda Root is an English stage and screen actress and a former voice actress for children's programs.Root is known for her starring role in the 1995 BBC film adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, her role in the British TV comedy All About Me, as Miranda, alongside Richard Lumsden in 2004, and for voicing Sophie in The BFG. She trained for the stage at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Known For

Persuasion

(1995)

The Forsyte Saga

(2002)

Jane Eyre

(1996)

The Iron Lady

(2011)

Amanda Root Movies

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2020 |
Summerland
Summerland
2020
PG
1h 39m
Drama, Romance, War
7
During World War II, an Englishwoman opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him in this moving journey of womanhood, love and friendship.
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asMrs Lawrence
2017 |
The Black Prince
2017 |
Their Finest
Their Finest
2017
R
1h 57m
Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
6.8
A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.
asCecy
2016 |
The BFG
The BFG
2016
PG
1h 57m
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
6.3
An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
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1999 |
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
1996 |
Deep in the Heart
1996 |
Jane Eyre