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Amanda Root(I)

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Amanda Root in Persuasion (1995)
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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.
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Amanda Root and Satinder Sartaaj in The Black Prince (2017)
Amanda Root and Satinder Sartaaj in The Black Prince (2017)
Shabana Azmi, Amanda Root, and Satinder Sartaaj in The Black Prince (2017)
Jason Flemyng, Amanda Root, and Satinder Sartaaj in The Black Prince (2017)
Ciarán Hinds, Kate Buffery, and Amanda Root in The Man Who Cried (1993)
Amanda Root in The Man Who Cried (1993)
Ciarán Hinds and Amanda Root in The Man Who Cried (1993)
Ben Miles and Amanda Root in The Forsyte Saga (2002)
Ciarán Hinds, Richard McCabe, and Amanda Root in Persuasion (1995)
Ciarán Hinds and Amanda Root in Persuasion (1995)
Amanda Root in Persuasion (1995)
Emma Griffiths Malin, Damian Lewis, Oliver Milburn, Alistair Petrie, and Amanda Root in The Forsyte Saga (2002)

Known for

Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady (2011)
The Iron Lady
6.4
  • Amanda
  • 2011
The Forsyte Saga (2002)
The Forsyte Saga
8.1
TV Series
  • Winifred Dartie
Shabana Azmi, Jason Flemyng, Keith Duffy, David Essex, Amanda Root, Rup Magon, and Satinder Sartaaj in The Black Prince (2017)
The Black Prince
5.8
  • Queen Victoria
  • 2017
Hugh Bonneville, Hugh Dancy, Romola Garai, and Jodhi May in Daniel Deronda (2002)
Daniel Deronda
7.2
TV Mini Series
  • Mrs. Davilow

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Actress

  • The Sixth Commandment
    • Post-production
  • Casualty (1986)
    Casualty
    • ...
  • Bertie Carvel in Dalgliesh (2021)
    Dalgliesh
  • Russell Tovey, Bertie Carvel, and Amrita Acharia in The Sister (2020)
    The Sister
  • Tom Courtenay, Penelope Wilton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Gemma Arterton, Lucas Bond, and Dixie Egerickx in Summerland (2020)
    Summerland
  • Bryony Hannah, Helen George, and Jessica Raine in Call the Midwife (2012)
    Call the Midwife
  • MotherFatherSon (2019)
    MotherFatherSon
  • Emilia Fox in Silent Witness (1996)
    Silent Witness
  • Unforgotten (2015)
    Unforgotten
  • The Other Side of The Coin (2018)
    The Other Side of The Coin
  • Benedict Cumberbatch in Patrick Melrose (2018)
    Patrick Melrose
  • Shabana Azmi, Jason Flemyng, Keith Duffy, David Essex, Amanda Root, Rup Magon, and Satinder Sartaaj in The Black Prince (2017)
    The Black Prince
  • Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock (2010)
    Sherlock
  • Bill Nighy, Gemma Arterton, and Sam Claflin in Their Finest (2016)
    Their Finest
  • Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, and Dennis Waterman in New Tricks (2003)
    New Tricks
  • Ben Miller in Death in Paradise (2011)
    Death in Paradise

Additional Crew

  • George Takei, James Cawley, and John M. Kelley in Star Trek Phase II (2004)
    Star Trek Phase II

Soundtrack

  • The BFG (1989)
    The BFG

Videos14

Trailer
Trailer 1:12
Trailer
Jane Eyre (1996)
Trailer 0:34
Jane Eyre (1996)
Persuasion
Trailer 1:29
Persuasion
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 1.4
Trailer 1:57
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 1.4
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 1.5
Trailer 1:52
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 1.5
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 2.4
Trailer 2:00
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 2.4
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 2.3
Trailer 1:59
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 2.3
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 1.6
Trailer 2:00
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 1.6
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 1.3
Trailer 1:37
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 1.3
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 2.1
Trailer 1:50
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 2.1
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 1.2
Trailer 1:59
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 1.2
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 1.1
Trailer 1:36
The Forsyte Saga: Episode 1.1

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    • 1963
    • Essex, England, UK
  • Other works
    Played Cathy in the BBC radio drama of Wuthering Heights,and Fanny in the BBC radio drama of Mansfield Park
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    • 1 Article

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    Was originally sought by Emma Thompson to play the role of Marianne in Sense and Sensibility (1995). Root participated and was at the original script read-through. However, by the time the film was finally being made, she was already attached to appear in another Jane Austen film, Persuasion (1995). The role eventually went to Kate Winslet.

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