Amanda Root
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as Emma Welsborough Sherlock 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.
Filmography
The Iron Lady
as Amanda
Their Finest
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
Jane Eyre
as Miss Temple
Summerland
as Mrs. Lawrence
The BFG
as Sophie (voice)
Persuasion
as Anne Elliott
Allelujah
as Cynthia
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
as Margaret Robinson
Breaking the Code
as Patricia 'Pat' Green
The Black Prince
as Queen Victoria
The Robber Bride
as Tony Fremont
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
as Mrs. Chart
The Man Who Cried
as Hilda Maxwell
Hildegard
as Ricardis
Deep in the Heart
as Kate Markham
Love Again
as Maeve Brennan
Fiona's Story
as Julie
Mary Rose
as Mary Rose