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.
Persuasion
as Anne ElliottAnne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break...
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Jane Eyre
as Miss TempleJane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in...
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Their Finest
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's...
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Summerland
as Mrs. LawrenceA woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to...
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The BFG
as Sophie (voice)Sophie is snatched from her orphanage early one morning by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), whom...
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Allelujah
as CynthiaWhen news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the...
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Breaking the Code
as Patricia 'Pat' GreenA biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the...
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Deep in the Heart
as Kate MarkhamTwo British filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about Austin, Texas, and encounter strange...
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The Man Who Cried
as Hilda MaxwellAbel Mason is a man caught in a loveless marriage with a harridan wife who constantly berates...
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The Black Prince
as Queen VictoriaThe Black Prince follows the story of the last Sikh Maharaja — the son of the powerful ruler...
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The Robber Bride
as Tony FremontJournalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario...
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Margaret RobinsonIt's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a...
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Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
as KarenA prequel to Marion and Geoff, which captures on camcorder the fateful events at a garden party...
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Mary Rose
as Mary RoseA young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up...
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Fiona's Story
as JulieFiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography.
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Hildegard
as RicardisAn abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by...
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Love Again
as Maeve BrennanDramatisation of the romantic life and various relationships of poet Philip Larkin, from his...
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Midsomer Murders
as Ruth ScholeyThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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Death in Paradise
as Teresa GowerA brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling...
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs RendellFrom England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...
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Call the Midwife
as Florrie WatkinsDrama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of...
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Sherlock
as Emma WelsboroughA modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
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Casualty
as Joyce PaiceDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...
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Waking the Dead
as Lorna GylesA detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Foyle's War
as uncreditedAs WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates...
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A Touch of Frost
as Dolores DelmonteJack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and...
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Natural World
as NarratorNatural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and...
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Baby Reindeer
as Elle DunnWhen a struggling comedian shows one act of kindness to a vulnerable woman, it sparks a...
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Baby Reindeer
as Elle Dunn (voice)When a struggling comedian shows one act of kindness to a vulnerable woman, it sparks a...
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Law & Order: UK
as uncreditedAdapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and...
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Little Britain
as uncreditedA zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little...
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Dalgliesh
as Sister BrumfettA recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional...
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Patrick Melrose
as Virginia Watson-ScottA critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing...
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Rose and Maloney
as uncreditedRose and Maloney investigate old criminal cases, seeking to rectify miscarriages of justice.
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The Sister
as June FoxAlmost a decade into his new devoted married life Nathan is rocked to the core when Bob, an...
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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Kate (voice)An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by...
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The Forsyte Saga
as uncreditedEpic series spanning three generations of the upwardly mobile Forsyte family at the turn of the...
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Daniel Deronda
as Mrs. DavilowDaniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George...
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The Sixth Commandment
as Sue FarquharA series that dramatises the shocking story of the true-life murder of former Stowe schoolmaster...
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Time for Murder
as Sarah PenwardenWritten by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael...
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Thorne
as uncreditedThorne is a television drama series which debuted on Sky1 in the UK on 10 October 2010. It stars...
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The Buddha of Suburbia
as 1st TV ProducerKarim is 17 years old and lives in a South London suburb with his English mother and Pakistani...
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The Impressionists
as Alice HoschedeThe Impressionists is a three-part factual docudrama from the BBC, which reconstructs the...
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Original Sin
as Frances PeverellCommander Adam Dalgliesh is consulted by one of his literary heroes when Peverell Press staff...
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You & Me
as RichardsThree people experience tragedies they feel they will never overcome. They attempt to find hope...
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The Robinsons
as uncreditedThe show's central character is a divorced reinsurance actuary, Ed Robinson, who realises that...
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Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
as Vera SidneyJulian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder is a British five-part docudrama series...
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Anna Karenina
as DollyIn 19th century Russia, aristocrat Anna Karenina has a passionate extramarital affair with the...
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Love on a Branch Line
as Miss MounseyLove on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line...
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