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Amanda Root is a British actress (born 1963 in Essex), best known for her television appearances.

She also did the voice of Sophie in the animated film of Roald Dahl's The BFG, and appeared in the sitcom All About Me as Miranda.

In 1995, she starred as Anne Elliot in "Persuasion". The film (made for TV, then released theatrically) which is based on the novel by Jane Austen, provided Amanda with her first leading role in a film.

• Brief Encounters (TV series)
  • Lost & Found (2006) - June Makenzie
• The Impressionists (2006 TV mini-series) - Alice Hoschedé
• The Afternoon Play (TV series)
  • The Last Will and Testament of Billy Two-Sheds (2006) - Andrea
• Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder - The Case of the Croydon Poisonings (2005 TV movie) - Vera Sidney
• Empire (2005 TV mini-series) - Noella
• The Robinsons (2005 TV series) - Maggie Robinson
• Bloom (2004 short) - Helen Chapman
• All About Me (2004 TV series) - Miranda
• Rose and Maloney (TV series)
  • Episode #1.2 (2004) - Marsha Campese
• London (2004 TV movie) - Charlotte Brontë
• Foyle's War (TV series)
  • Fifty Ships (2003) - Elizabeth Lewes
• Little Britain (TV series)
  • Most People in a Mini]] (2003) - Baby's Mother
• A Touch of Frost (TV series)
  • Another Life (2003) - Delores Delmonte
• Love Again (2003 TV movie) - Maeve Brennan
• The Forsyte Saga Series II (2003 TV mini-series) - Winifred Dartie nee Forsyte
• Midsomer Murders (TV series)
  • A Talent for Life (2003) - Ruth Scholey
• Daniel Deronda (2002 TV movie) - Mrs. Davilow
• Waking the Dead (TV series)
  • Special Relationships (2002) - Lorna Gyles
• The Forsyte Saga (2002 TV mini-series) - Winifred Dartie née Forsyte
• A Small Summer Party (2001 TV movie) - Karen
• Holby City (TV series)
  • Snakes and Ladders (2001) - Abbie Sawyer
• Anna Karenina (2000 TV mini-series) - Dolly
• Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999) - Margaret Robinson
• Big Cat (1998 TV movie) - Alice
• Mortimer's Law (1998 TV series) - Rachel Mortimer
• Dangerfield (TV series)
  • Guilt (1997) - Alice Stratton
• Sunnyside Farm (TV series)
  • Episode dated 25 April 1997 (1997) - Dawn
• Original Sin (1997 TV movie) - Frances Peverell
• Deep in the Heart (1996) - Kate Markham
• Breaking the Code (1996 TV movie) - Patricia 'Pat' Green
• Jane Eyre (1996) - Miss Temple
• Turning World (1996 TV series)
• Persuasion (1995) - Anne Elliot
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (TV series)
  • The Taming of the Shrew (1994) - Kate
• Love on a Branch Line (1994 TV mini-series) - Miss Mounsey
• The Buddha of Suburbia (1993 TV mini-series) - First TV Producer
• The Man Who Cried (1993 TV movie) - Hilda Maxwell
• The House of Bernarda Alba (1991 TV broadcast) - Adela
• The BFG (1989) - Sophie (voice)
• This Lightning Always Strikes Twice (1985 TV movie)

• Amanda Root at the Internet Movie Database

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