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Amanda Root
Known for: ActingAmanda 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 17
The Forsyte Saga
as Winifred Dartie 
Daniel Deronda
as Mrs Davilow 
The Iron Lady
as Amanda 
Their Finest
as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film) 
The Sixth Commandment
as Sue Farquhar 
The Sister
as June Fox 
Anna Karenina
as Dolly 
All About Me
as Miranda 
Jane Eyre
as Miss Temple 
Summerland
as Mrs. Lawrence 
Persuasion
as Anne Elliott 
Marion & Geoff: A Small Summer Party
as Karen
London
as Charlotte Bronte
The BFG
as Sophie (voice) 
The Impressionists
as Alice Hoschede 
The Black Prince
as Queen Victoria 
Hildegard
as Ricardis