Amanda Root
British actress · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Born 1963 · age 63
Amanda Root is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Anne Elliot in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Persuasion.
Amanda Root is read about 269 times a day, in 13 languages.
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Something wrong?A life in dates
Life Goes OnFilm, Judith2024
Baby ReindeerSeries, Elle Dunn2023
AllelujahFilm, Cynthia2022
Remembers…Series2020
SummerlandFilm, Mrs. Lawrence2018
Patrick MelroseSeries, Virginia Watson-Scott2012
Call the MidwifeSeries, Florrie Watkins2011
The Iron LadyFilm, Amanda2010
SherlockSeries, Emma Welsborough2009Theatre World Special AwardAward2008
Fiona's StoryFilm, Julie2007
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music HallFilm, Mrs. Chart2003
Little BritainSeries
Love AgainFilm, 2003Maeve Brennan2001
Waking the DeadSeries, Lorna Gyles2000
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?Film, Margaret Robinson1998Big CatFilm, Alice1996
Breaking the CodeFilm, Patricia 'Pat' Green1995
PersuasionFilm, Anne Elliott1994
Harry Enfield and ChumsSeries, Miss Hetherington1993
The Man Who CriedFilm, Hilda Maxwell1990
The BFGFilm, Sophie (voice)1989
Agatha Christie's PoirotSeries, Mrs Rendell1987
Mary RoseFilm, Mary Rose1983
Natural WorldSeries, Narrator1963BornPeople around Amanda
Close ties
Franco Zeffirelli Directed Jane Eyre (1997)
Tom Hooper Directed Daniel Deronda (2002)
Fiona Shaw Also in Persuasion and Jane Eyre
Richard E. Grant Also in The Iron Lady and Their Finest
Tom Courtenay Also in Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (2000)
Siân Phillips Also in Mrs McGinty’s Dead and Summerland
Roger Michell Directed Persuasion (1995)
Samuel West Also in Persuasion and Jane Eyre
Matthew Marsh Also in Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall (2007)- Nick Dear Wrote Persuasion and Mrs McGinty’s Dead
Dyson Lovell Produced Jane Eyre (1997)
Jeremy Child Also in Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (2000)
Known for
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Summerland 2020
Persuasion 1995
Jane Eyre 1996
Love of Your Life 2026
Their Finest 2017
Filmography 23
67 credits on file
Television 24
Awards
About this person
A familiar face on both stage and screen, she worked regularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company during her early career, performing as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, among other roles. In 2009, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Sarah in Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests.
