Amanda Root

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.

  • Title: Amanda Root
  • Popularity: 15.007
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1963-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Chelmsford, Essex, England
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  • Also Known As: 아만다 루트
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Amanda Root Movies

  • 2007
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    Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
    Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall

    5.1 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 2007
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    The Robber Bride
    The Robber Bride

    4.8 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    The BFG
    The BFG

    6.3 1989 HD

    Sophie is snatched from her orphanage early one morning by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), whom she witnesses engaged in mysterious activities. She is...

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  • 1995
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    Persuasion
    Persuasion

    7.083 1995 HD

    Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea...

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  • 1996
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    Jane Eyre
    Jane Eyre

    6.87 1996 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
    Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

    6.2 2000 HD

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

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  • 2017
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    Their Finest
    Their Finest

    6.67 2017 HD

    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....

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  • 1993
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    The Man Who Cried
    The Man Who Cried

    5.5 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 1996
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    Breaking the Code
    Breaking the Code

    5.4 1996 HD

    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...

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  • 1996
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    Deep in the Heart
    Deep in the Heart

    1 1996 HD

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

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  • 2017
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    The Black Prince
    The Black Prince

    4.7 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    Love Again
    Love Again

    1 2003 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Summerland
    Summerland

    7.525 2020 HD

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

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  • 2008
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    Fiona's Story
    Fiona's Story

    1 2008 HD

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

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  • 1987
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    Mary Rose
    Mary Rose

    1 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    Allelujah
    Allelujah

    5.5 2023 HD

    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...

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  • 2001
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    Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
    Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party

    6 2001 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    Hildegard
    Hildegard

    1 1994 HD

    An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle...

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  • 1970
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    Waking the Dead
    Waking the Dead

    7.229 1970 HD

    A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

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  • 1970
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    The Forsyte Saga
    The Forsyte Saga

    7.8 1970 HD

    Epic series spanning three generations of the upwardly mobile Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century.

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  • 1970
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    Midsomer Murders
    Midsomer Murders

    7.58 1970 HD

    The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his...

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  • 1970
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    All About Me
    All About Me

    1 1970 HD

    All About Me is a British television sitcom starring Jasper Carrott about a multicultural family living in Birmingham. It was broadcast on BBC One...

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  • 1970
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    A Touch of Frost
    A Touch of Frost

    7.483 1970 HD

    Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble...

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  • 1970
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    Foyle's War
    Foyle's War

    7.782 1970 HD

    As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War...

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  • 1970
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    Law & Order: UK
    Law & Order: UK

    6.9 1970 HD

    Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the...

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  • 1970
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    The Robinsons
    The Robinsons

    5.7 1970 HD

    The show's central character is a divorced reinsurance actuary, Ed Robinson, who realises that reinsurance is not his passion and decides to rethink...

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  • 1970
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    Anna Karenina
    Anna Karenina

    7 1970 HD

    In 19th century Russia, aristocrat Anna Karenina has a passionate extramarital affair with the dashing Count Vronsky that could lead to both their...

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  • 1970
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    Daniel Deronda
    Daniel Deronda

    7.676 1970 HD

    Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name. The serial was directed by...

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  • 1970
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    Natural World
    Natural World

    7 1970 HD

    Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand....

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    London
    London

    1 1970 HD

    London is a 2004 three-part BBC history documentary series about the history of London, presented by Peter Ackroyd.

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  • 1970
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    Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
    Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder

    1 1970 HD

    Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder is a British five-part docudrama series produced by Touchpaper Television, which...

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  • 1970
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    Little Britain
    Little Britain

    7.117 1970 HD

    A zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little Britain.

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  • 1970
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    Rose and Maloney
    Rose and Maloney

    5 1970 HD

    Rose and Maloney investigate old criminal cases, seeking to rectify miscarriages of justice.

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  • 1970
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    Sunnyside Farm
    Sunnyside Farm

    1 1970 HD

    Sunnyside Farm is the title of a 1997 BBC comedy television series. The basic plot was that brothers Ray and Ken Sunnyside inherited the failing...

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  • 1970
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    Thorne
    Thorne

    6.235 1970 HD

    Thorne is a television drama series which debuted on Sky1 in the UK on 10 October 2010. It stars David Morrissey who plays the title role of...

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  • 1970
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    Original Sin
    Original Sin

    1 1970 HD

    Commander Adam Dalgliesh is consulted by one of his literary heroes when Peverell Press staff fall victim to a rash of hate mail. When the body of an...

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  • 1970
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    Casualty
    Casualty

    5.942 1970 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

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  • 1970
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    Sherlock
    Sherlock

    8.514 1970 HD

    A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

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  • 1970
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    The Buddha of Suburbia
    The Buddha of Suburbia

    6.1 1970 HD

    Karim is 17 years old and lives in a South London suburb with his English mother and Pakistani father, who has become a kind of spiritual guru to his...

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  • 1970
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    The Impressionists
    The Impressionists

    7.5 1970 HD

    The Impressionists is a three-part factual docudrama from the BBC, which reconstructs the origins of the Impressionist art movement.

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  • 1970
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    Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
    Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

    6.833 1970 HD

    An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost...

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  • 1970
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    Patrick Melrose
    Patrick Melrose

    7.51 1970 HD

    A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult...

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  • 1970
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    Love on a Branch Line
    Love on a Branch Line

    5 1970 HD

    Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line by John Hadfield. It was broadcast in 1994 airing on...

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  • 1970
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    Dalgliesh
    Dalgliesh

    6.5 1970 HD

    A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the...

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  • 1970
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    The Sister
    The Sister

    6.333 1970 HD

    Almost a decade into his new devoted married life Nathan is rocked to the core when Bob, an unwelcome face from the past, turns up on his doorstep...

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  • 1970
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    Death in Paradise
    Death in Paradise

    7.464 1970 HD

    A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of...

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  • 1970
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    The Sixth Commandment
    The Sixth Commandment

    6.5 1970 HD

    A series that dramatises the shocking story of the true-life murder of former Stowe schoolmaster and deeply closeted evangelical Christian,...

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  • 1970
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    You & Me
    You & Me

    7.7 1970 HD

    Three people experience tragedies they feel they will never overcome. They attempt to find hope and love again in the future, but worry that the past...

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  • 1970
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    Agatha Christie's Poirot
    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    8.149 1970 HD

    From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule...

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  • 1970
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    Call the Midwife
    Call the Midwife

    7.486 1970 HD

    Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling...

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  • 1970
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    Time for Murder
    Time for Murder

    4 1970 HD

    Written by six of Britain's finest writers (including Fay Weldon, Antonia Fraser, and Michael Robson), performed by leading actors, these are no...

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  • 1970
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    Baby Reindeer
    Baby Reindeer

    7.675 1970 HD

    When a struggling comedian shows one act of kindness to a vulnerable woman, it sparks a suffocating obsession which threatens to wreck both their...

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  • 1970
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    Baby Reindeer
    Baby Reindeer

    7.675 1970 HD

    When a struggling comedian shows one act of kindness to a vulnerable woman, it sparks a suffocating obsession which threatens to wreck both their...

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