Actor
Amanda Root
January 1, 1963 · Chelmsford, Essex, England
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.
Notable work
8.5Sherlock (2010)
as Emma Welsborough
6.4The Iron Lady (2011)
as Amanda
7.6Baby Reindeer (2024)
as Elle Dunn and as Elle Dunn (voice)
8.2Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989)
as Mrs Rendell
6.6Their Finest (2017)
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
7.5Midsomer Murders (1997)
as Ruth Scholey
7.4Death in Paradise (2011)
as Teresa Gower
7.5Patrick Melrose (2018)
as Virginia Watson-Scott
Often works with
Pip Torrens
3 titles together
The Iron Lady, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Patrick Melrose
Benedict Cumberbatch
2 titles together
Sherlock, Patrick Melrose
Nicholas Farrell
2 titles together
The Iron Lady, Agatha Christie's Poirot
Richard E. Grant
2 titles together
The Iron Lady, Their Finest
Anthony Stewart Head
2 titles together
The Iron Lady, Little Britain
Jessica Gunning
2 titles together
Baby Reindeer, Summerland
Full filmography · 60
Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn and as Elle Dunn (voice)
20247.6
The Sixth Commandment
as Sue Farquhar
20236.8
You & Me
as Richards
2023
Dalgliesh
as Sister Brumfett
20216.7
The Sister
as June Fox
20206.1
Patrick Melrose
as Virginia Watson-Scott
20187.5
Wolf Hall
as Abbess Zouche
20157.5
Call the Midwife
as Florrie Watkins
20127.6
Death in Paradise
as Teresa Gower
20117.4
Vera
as Deena Corbridge
20117.4
Thorne
as Teresa Maxwell
20106.4
Sherlock
as Emma Welsborough
20108.5