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Amanda Root
Acting
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.
Known For
Midsomer Murders
1997
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Death in Paradise
2011
Casualty
1986
Call the Midwife
2012
Vera
2011
Sherlock
2010
Foyle's War
2002
A Touch of Frost
1992
Little Britain
2003
Wolf Hall
2015
Dalgliesh
2021
Patrick Melrose
2018
Baby Reindeer
2024
Baby Reindeer
2024
Persuasion
1995
The Iron Lady
2011
Their Finest
2017
Jane Eyre
1996
Summerland
2020
The BFG
1990
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