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Amanda Root
Known For: Acting · Birthday: 1963-01-01
13 Movies · 8 TV Series
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Biography
Amanda Root (born 1963) is an English stage and screen actress and a former voice actress for children's programmes.
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.
Movies & TV Series
2020.
1 Movie
2017.
2 Movies
Their Finest
6
2017
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true...
The Black Prince
2017
The Black Prince follows the story of the last Sikh Maharaja — the son of the powerful ruler Ranjit Singh — who was placed on the throne at the age of five, after the death of his father. In 1849, the...
2010.
1 TV Series
2007.
2 Movies
The Robber Bride
2007
Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they've uncovered a homicide.
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
2007
Jessie Wallace stars in this BBC drama based on the turbulent life and times of Marie Lloyd, known as the 'Queen of the Music Hall', who was famous at the turn of the 20th century not just for her per...
2006.
1 TV Series
2004.
1 TV Series
2003.
1 Movie
2000.
1 Movie · 1 TV Series
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
TV
Anna Karenina
2000
In 19th century Russia, aristocrat Anna Karenina has a passionate extramarital affair with the dashing Count Vronsky that could lead to both their ruin. A four-part British television adaptation of To...
1997.
1 TV Series
1996.
3 Movies
Jane Eyre
1996
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment...
Deep in the Heart
1996
Two British filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about Austin, Texas, and encounter strange and eccentric characters along the way.
Breaking the Code
1996
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send se...
1995.
1 Movie
1993.
1 Movie · 1 TV Series
The Man Who Cried
1993
Abel Mason is a man caught in a loveless marriage with a harridan wife who constantly berates him and beats their son Dick. When the one woman he loves dies at the hands of her husband after he was se...
TV
The Buddha of Suburbia
1993
Naveen Andrews plays the charismatic Karim, a half-Asian, half-English, wholly hedonistic chancer who is mortified when his civil servant father (Roshan Seth) plunges into an affair with the exotic Ev...
1989.
1 Movie
1986.
1 TV Series
1983.
1 TV Series
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