Amanda Root

Amanda Root

Nascimento : 1963-01-01, Chelmsford, Essex, England

História

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.

Perfil

Amanda Root

Filmes

Onde Fica o Paraíso
Mrs. Lawrence
Com Gemma Arterton. Durante a II Guerra Mundial, uma pesquisadora durona e solitária abriga um menino fugindo dos bombardeios em Londres. Aos poucos, ela acaba por abrir seu coração em uma emocionante jornada de amizade e imaginação.
O Príncipe Negro
Queen Victoria
O Príncipe Negro é a história da Rainha Vitória e do Último Rei do Punjab, o Maharajah Duleep Singh. Seu personagem evolui, dividido entre duas culturas e enfrentando constantes dilemas como resultado. Seu relacionamento com a Rainha Vitória será o relacionamento mais impactante do filme, a Rainha representando a cultura inglesa pela qual ele foi atraído. O Príncipe Negro começa uma luta ao longo da vida para reconquistar seu Reino. Isso o leva a uma jornada extraordinária pelo mundo.
Sua Melhor História
Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)
Durante o "London Blitz" de 1940, a roteirista Catrin (Gemma Arterton) se esforça para encontrar sua voz em meio à guerra, enquanto ela e um elenco improvisado trabalham sob fogo para criar um filme para levantar os espíritos da nação e inspirar a América a participar da guerra.
Fiona's Story
Julie
Fiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography.
Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
Mrs. Chart
Jessie Wallace stars in this BBC drama based on the turbulent life and times of Marie Lloyd, known as the 'Queen of the Music Hall', who was famous at the turn of the 20th century not just for her performances on stage but also for her riotous behaviour off it. Lloyd's love life and outrageous conduct made her a target for the rising tabloid newspapers of the time. The film includes some of Lloyd's most famous songs, including 'My Old Man Said Follow the Van' and her theme song 'A Little of What You Fancy Does You Good'.
The Robber Bride
Tony Fremont
Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they've uncovered a homicide.
Love Again
Maeve Brennan
Dramatisation of the romantic life and various relationships of poet Philip Larkin, from his arrival as librarian at Hull University in 1955 to his death in 1985.
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Margaret Robinson
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
Deep in the Heart
Kate Markham
Two British filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about Austin, Texas, and encounter strange and eccentric characters along the way.
Breaking the Code
Patricia 'Pat' Green
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
Jane Eyre: Encontro com o Amor
Miss Temple
Jane Eyre é uma menina órfã que vive com sua tia, a sra. Reed, e seus primos, que sempre a maltratam. Até que, cansada do convívio forçado com a sobrinha de seu falecido esposo, a mulher envia Jane a um colégio para moças, onde ela cresce e se torna professora. Com o tempo, cresce nela a vontade de expandir seus horizontes. Ela põe um anúncio no jornal em busca de trabalho como governanta. O anúncio é respondido pela senhora Fairfax, e Jane parte do colégio para trabalhar em Thornfield Hall. Lá, ela conhece seu patrão, o sr. Rochester, um homem brusco e sombrio, por quem se apaixona. Mas um grande segredo do passado se interpõe entre eles. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Persuasão
Anne Elliott
Há sete anos, Anne Elliot rompeu seu noivado com Frederick Wentworth por pressão familiar porque ele era apenas um pescador. Agora, a família Elliot aluga sua casa para o Almirante Croft, e Anne descobre que Frederick se tornou um rico capitão, em busca de uma esposa. Mas será que ele vai casar com uma de suas pretendentes ou vai perdoar Anne?
The Man Who Cried
Hilda Maxwell
Abel Mason is a man caught in a loveless marriage with a harridan wife who constantly berates him and beats their son Dick. When the one woman he loves dies at the hands of her husband after he was sent a letter by Mason's wife, exposing the affair, Abel leaves her for good taking to the road and young Dick with him.
The BFG
Sophie (voice)
Sophie is snatched from her orphanage early one morning by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), whom she witnesses engaged in mysterious activities. She is soon put at ease, as she learns that BFG's job is to collect, catalog and deliver pleasant dreams to children. She joins him that night, but a mean giants follow them, planning to eat the children of the world.
Mary Rose
Mary Rose
A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance and her once infant son is now older than she is…