Amanda Root is an English stage and screen actress and a former voice actress for children's programs.Root is known for her starring role in the 1995 BBC film adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, her role in the British TV comedy All About Me, as Miranda, alongside Richard Lumsden in 2004, and for voicing Sophie in The BFG. She trained for the stage at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
Born1963
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- Other worksPlayed Cathy in the BBC radio drama of Wuthering Heights,and Fanny in the BBC radio drama of Mansfield Park
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- TriviaWas originally sought by Emma Thompson to play the role of Marianne inSense and Sensibility (1995). Root participated and was at the original scriptread-through. However, by the time the film was finally being made, she was already attached to appear in another Jane Austen film,Persuasion (1995). The role eventually went toKate Winslet.
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