For the American social reformer, see Amanda Lane Root.
Amanda Root
Born
1963 (age 60–61)
Chelmsford, Essex, England
Alma mater
Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1983 – present
Amanda Root (born 1963) is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Anne Elliot in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Persuasion. 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.
Her film roles include The Iron Lady (2011), Their Finest (2016), The Black Prince (2017) and Summerland (2020). Root is also known for her television roles, including Dolly in Anna Karenina (2000), Mrs Davilow in Daniel Deronda (2002), and Winifred Dartie in The Forsyte Saga (2002−2003). In 2018, she played Carol Finch in ITV crime drama Unforgotten (2018), and in 2023, she portrayed Sue Farquhar in BBC drama The Sixth Commandment (2023).
AmandaRoot (born 1963) is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Anne Elliot in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Persuasion...
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released in 1989 with David Jason providing the voice of the BFG and AmandaRoot as the voice of Sophie. It has also been adapted as a theatre performance...
Amanda Lane Root (July 9, 1839 – October 21, 1918) was an American social reformer in the temperance movement, and a leader in Good Templar activities...
with Joan much more than it actually was". The portrayal of Clarke, by AmandaRoot, in the 1996 film Breaking the Code, is a much truer depiction, both...
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principal characters played by Damian Lewis, Gina McKee, Rupert Graves, and AmandaRoot return. It has also been released on DVD. Ann, the eldest of the family...
part of The Saturday Play series. Adapted by Colin Davis, it featured AmandaRoot, Joanna Monro, Abigail Docherty, Christopher Wright, Charles Simpson...
Patriot For Me" by John Osborne starring Richard Goulding, Peter Egan, AmandaRoot, Michael Pennington. BBC Radio 3. Franks also directed "A Cold Supper...
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as Jamila Faruk Emma Fielding as Amy Hollis Indra Ové as Maria Carr AmandaRoot as Carol Finch Sara Stewart as Mel Hollis Bronagh Waugh as Jessica Reid...
Stephen Mangan as Norman, Jessica Hynes as Annie, Ben Miles as Tom, AmandaRoot as Sarah, Paul Ritter as Reg and Amelia Bullmore as Ruth. The Old Vic...
Roz, Greg Bryk as Henry, Shawn Doyle as John, Susan Lynch as Charis, AmandaRoot as Tony, Tatiana Maslany as Augusta and Brandon Firla as West, aired...
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