Amanda Root

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.

Cast

Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall

Mrs. Chart

Fiona's Story

Julie

Allelujah

Cynthia

The Robber Bride

Tony Fremont

The BFG

Sophie (voice)

Persuasion

Anne Elliott

Jane Eyre

Miss Temple

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

Margaret Robinson

Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party

Karen

Mary Rose

Mary Rose

Hildegard

Ricardis

Their Finest

Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)

The Man Who Cried

Hilda Maxwell

Breaking the Code

Patricia 'Pat' Green

Deep in the Heart

Kate Markham

The Black Prince

Queen Victoria

Love Again

Maeve Brennan

Summerland

Mrs. Lawrence

Big Cat

Alice

The Iron Lady

Amanda