Amanda Root Biography (1963-)

Born in 1963.

Gender

Female

Occupation

Actress

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Appearances
• Miniseries
• Miss Mounsey, Love on a Branch Line, BBC1, 1993
• Dolly, Anna Karenina, 2000
• Specials
• Adela, The House of Bernarda Alba, PBS, 1991
• The Taming of the Shrew, HBO, 1996
• Patricia Green, "Breaking the Code," Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1996
• Frances Peverell, Original Sin, PBS, 1996
• Episodic
• Dawn, Sunnyside Farm, 1997
• Alice Stratton, "Guilt," Dangerfield, 1997
• Other Television Appearances
• Voice of Sophie, The BFG (movie; also known as The Big FriendlyGiant), The Disney Channel, 1989
• Hilda Maxwell, The Man Who Cried, 1993
• Anne Elliot, Persuasion, BBC, 1995
• Rachel Mortimer, Mortimer's Law (pilot), 1998
• Alice, Big Cat, 1998
• Rachel Mortimer, Mortimer's Law (series), 1998
• Appeared in The Buddha of Suburbia, BBC; also appeared in Ladies in Charge, Mary Rose, Time for Murder, and World'sBeyond.
• Film Appearances
• Kate, In the West, 1996
• Miss Temple, Jane Eyre (also known as Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre), Miramax, 1996
• Kate Markham, Deep in the Heart \[also known as Deep in the Heart (of Texas)\], Vanguard Films, 1998
• Margaret Robinson, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?, USA Films, 1999
• Stage Appearances
• Edith, Conversations after a Burial, Almeida Theatre, London, 2000
• Appeared in The Constant Couple, in King Lear, in Love's Labour's Lost, as Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, in The Man ofMode, in The Merchant of Venice, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, as Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, in The Seagull, in Some Americans Abroad, as Neorza, Tell Me Honestly, in Today,and as Cressida, Troilus and Cressida, all with Royal Shakespeare Company; appeared in 50 Revolutions, Oxford Stage Company, Whitehall, London; appeared in The Dragon's Tail and The House of Bernarda Alba, both West End productions; also appeared in Caesar and Cleopatra, The Devil's Disciple, The Fairy Queen, Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens, and The Plough and the Stars.