Amanda Root was born on 1963 and is an English actress.
27 Facts About Amanda Root
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Amanda Root is perhaps best known for her starring role as Anne Elliot in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Persuasion.
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Amanda Root was born in Chelmsford, Essex, to Ken and Maureen Amanda Root.
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Amanda Root's father was an accountant, whilst her mother had performed in amateur dramatic productions as a child.
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Amanda Root attended Philip Morant School in Colchester, studying drama at O Level; she joined the Essex Youth Theatre as a teenager.
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Amanda Root was a remarkably complete actress even in her early twenties, when physically she looked little more than a child.
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Amanda Root worked regularly with the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon and London from 1983 to 1991, including playing the role of Juliet to Daniel Day-Lewis's Romeo; a very young Lady Macbeth; Cressida to Ralph Fiennes's Troilus, and Rosaline to his Berowne.
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Amanda Root appeared as Jessica opposite Ian McDiarmid's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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In 1985, Amanda Root made her television debut in the pilot episode of Ladies in Charge, as one of a trio of women setting up an agency to help others in postwar London.
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Amanda Root starred as Nina in Chekhov's The Seagull at the Barbican Theatre.
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In 1993, Amanda Root played Hilda Maxwell in ITV period drama The Man Who Cried, opposite Ciaran Hinds.
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That same year, Amanda Root was sought by the actress Emma Thompson for the role of Marianne in Sense and Sensibility, based on the 1811 novel by Jane Austen.
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Amanda Root participated in a read through in London with the cast but was unable to take on the role as she had already committed to star as Anne Elliot in another Austen adaptation, Persuasion.
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Amanda Root's character was inspired by Bletchley code-breaker Joan Clarke, and starred Derek Jacobi as Alan Turing.
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In 1998, Amanda Root starred in BBC crime drama Mortimer's Law, as Rachel Mortimer, a barrister who relocates to rural Wales to take up a vacant coroner's post.
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That same year, Amanda Root returned to the stage in Yasmina Reza's Conversations After a Burial at the Almeida Theatre.
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Amanda Root made guest appearances in various crime dramas, including A Touch of Frost, Foyle's War, Waking the Dead, Poirot and Midsomer Murders.
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Amanda Root made her third appearance at the Almeida Theatre as Polina Bardin in Enemies by Maxim Gorky, in a new interpretation by David Hare.
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In 2008, Amanda Root was cast as Sarah in Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests.
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Amanda Root played Amanda in Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady opposite Meryl Streep and continued to make further guest appearances in television crime dramas, such as DCI Banks, The Tunnel and Death in Paradise.
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In 2017, Amanda Root featured in an episode of hit BBC drama Sherlock as Emma Welsborough.
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Amanda Root had a supporting role in true-life crime drama The Sixth Commandment, based on the murder of Peter Farquhar.
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In 2025, Amanda Root appeared in the penultimate episode of long-running ITV crime drama Vera as Deena Corbridge.
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Amanda Root is set to feature in upcoming British crime thriller Lazarus for Amazon Prime; filming for the series began in February 2024.
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In 2016, Amanda Root was awarded a Point of Light Award by Prime Minister Theresa May in recognition of her work.
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Amanda Root was shortlisted for Lorraine Kelly's Inspirational Woman of the Year Award; she was informed of her nomination in a surprise live announcement on the Lorraine programme.
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In 2020, Amanda Root announced that she was stepping down as Artistic Director after ten years in the role.