Amanda Root
Birthday: 1963-01-01
Place of Birth: Chelmsford, Essex, England
Biography: 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.
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Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
Witness the life and loves of Marie Lloyd, the music hall legend known for her bawdy songs and outra...
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Fiona's Story
Fiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography....
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Allelujah
When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hos...
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The Robber Bride
Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next ...
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The BFG
Sophie is snatched from her orphanage early one morning by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), whom she wi...
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Persuasion
Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with ...
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Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto p...
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Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
A prequel to Marion and Geoff, which captures on camcorder the fateful events at a garden party when...
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Mary Rose
A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades l...
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Hildegard
An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia R...
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Their Finest
During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resili...
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The Man Who Cried
Abel Mason is a man caught in a loveless marriage with a harridan wife who constantly berates him an...
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Breaking the Code
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital co...
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Deep in the Heart
Two British filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about Austin, Texas, and encounter strange and ...
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The Black Prince
The Black Prince follows the story of the last Sikh Maharaja — the son of the powerful ruler Ranjit ...
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Love Again
Dramatisation of the romantic life and various relationships of poet Philip Larkin, from his arrival...
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Summerland
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be ri...
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Big Cat
Alice no longer expects a knight on a white charger to enter her life. Then she meets Leo. For the f...
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The Iron Lady
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a foc...
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