Amanda Root

Acting

Amanda Root

Born 1963-01-01 · Chelmsford, Essex, England

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.

Acting credits

The Iron Lady poster
6.4

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

The Iron Lady

2011

Jane Eyre poster
6.9

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Jane Eyre

1996

Their Finest poster
6.6

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

Their Finest

2017

Persuasion poster
7.2

In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening to their hearts.

Persuasion

1995

Summerland poster
7.5

A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

Summerland

2020

Life Goes On poster
NR

BILL is in end of life care waiting for the sweet release of death - but unfortunately for him he is stuck in an infinite time loop, causing the day to restart the second his heart stops... A darkly comic yet sweet and hopeful film all about enjoying the time you have left and saying the important things to the important people.

Life Goes On

2026

Allelujah poster
5.2

When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their planning of a concert in honor of the hospital's most celebrated nurse. But there might be something more threatening to the hospital itself, more deadly than the politicians ready to shut down the place at a moment's notice.

Allelujah

2023

The BFG poster
6.4

Sophie is snatched from her orphanage early one morning by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), whom she witnesses engaged in mysterious activities. She is soon put at ease, as she learns that BFG's job is to collect, catalog and deliver pleasant dreams to children. She joins him that night, but a mean giants follow them, planning to eat the children of the world.

The BFG

1990

Hildegard poster
6.5

An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle Ages, her legacy comprising some of the most radiant accounts of religious experience ever.

Hildegard

1994

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7.0

Alice no longer expects a knight on a white charger to enter her life. Then she meets Leo. For the first time Alice begins to understand love and, for a while, it seems that she is going to live happily ever after.

Big Cat

1998

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? poster
6.2

It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

2000

The Robber Bride poster
4.8

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.

The Robber Bride

2007

Breaking the Code poster
5.6

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 secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.

Breaking the Code

1996

The Black Prince poster
5.0

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 young prince was removed from the throne and eventually sent off to England. His attempts to return to India and reclaim his kingdom were subsequently thwarted by the British.

The Black Prince

2017

Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall poster
5.8

Witness the life and loves of Marie Lloyd, the music hall legend known for her bawdy songs and outrageous lifestyle, which included three marriages and an illegitimate child.

Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall

2007

The Man Who Cried poster
6.3

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 sent a letter by Mason's wife, exposing the affair, Abel leaves her for good taking to the road and young Dick with him.

The Man Who Cried

1993

Mary Rose poster
NR

A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance and her once infant son is now older than she is…

Mary Rose

1987

Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party poster
8.0

A prequel to Marion and Geoff, which captures on camcorder the fateful events at a garden party when mini-cab driver Keith's life fell apart. Friends and family have gathered for a barbecue to celebrate the career of Keith's wife Marion, who is at the party with her boss, Mr Sushimoto, and her colleague, Geoff. However, Keith's father-in-law uncovers the true extent of Marion's naked ambition, with humiliating results for Keith.

Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party

2001

Fiona's Story poster
NR

Fiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography.

Fiona's Story

2008

Love Again poster
10.0

Dramatisation of the romantic life and various relationships of poet Philip Larkin, from his arrival as librarian at Hull University in 1955 to his death in 1985.

Love Again

2003

Deep in the Heart poster
8.0

Two British filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about Austin, Texas, and encounter strange and eccentric characters along the way.

Deep in the Heart

1996