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Acting

Amanda Root

Career: Active from 1987 to 2020, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 10
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: The Forsyte Saga
81/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 51 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Amanda Root Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.0, average 4.8
Violence
2.9, average 4.1
Physical Comedy
1.3, average 2.4
Scare
1.6, average 2.6

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

Social Commentary 3
Strong Female Lead 2
Biographical Drama 2
Tragic Romance 2
Character Study 2
Psychological Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

73

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

11 titles · average score 65

Love of Your Life

67

as Grief Therapist

Life Goes On

as Judith

Harlan Coben's Lazarus

58

TV show · as Margot Macintyre

Baby Reindeer

85

TV show · as Elle Dunn (voice) / Elle Dunn

The Sixth Commandment

81

TV show · as Sue Farquhar

You & Me

61

TV show · as Richards

Allelujah

43

as Cynthia

Remembers…

TV show

Dalgliesh

75

TV show · as Sister Brumfett

The Sister

50

TV show · as June Fox

Summerland

70

as Mrs. Lawrence

2010s

13 titles · average score 68

The Capture

79

TV show · as Margaret

Patrick Melrose

75

TV show · as Virginia Watson-Scott

The Black Prince

38

as Queen Victoria

Their Finest

75

as Cecy/Mrs Brown (Careless Talk Film)

Wolf Hall

85

TV show · as Abbess Zouche

The Tunnel

72

TV show · as Dr Cross

Call the Midwife

82

TV show · as Florrie Watkins

Death in Paradise

59

TV show · as Teresa Gower

Vera

60

TV show · as Deena Corbridge

The Iron Lady

55

as Amanda

Sherlock

84

TV show · as Emma Welsborough

Thorne

65

TV show · as Teresa Maxwell

2000s

20 titles · average score 66

Law & Order: UK

77

TV show · as Patricia Smith

The Robber Bride

51

as Tony Fremont

The Impressionists

80

TV show · as Alice Hoschede

The Robinsons

46

TV show · as Maggie Robinson

Love Again

as Maeve Brennan

Little Britain

74

TV show

The Forsyte Saga

81

TV show · as Winifred Dartie

All About Me

TV show · as Miranda

Foyle's War

83

TV show · as Elizabeth Lewes

Waking the Dead

50

TV show · as Lorna Gyles

Anna Karenina

70

TV show · as Dolly

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

45

as Margaret Robinson

1990s

21 titles · average score 69

Holby City

64

TV show · as Abbie Sawyer

as Alice

TV show · as Rachel Mortimer

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Ruth Scholey

Silent Witness

75

TV show · as Olivia Walsh

Deep in the Heart

as Kate Markham

Persuasion

74

as Anne Elliott

Hildegard

as Ricardis

Harry Enfield and Chums

73

TV show · as Miss Hetherington

The Man Who Cried

65

as Hilda Maxwell

A Touch of Frost

51

TV show · as Dolores Delmonte

The BFG

65

as Sophie (voice)

1980s

7 titles · average score 75

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Mrs Rendell

Mary Rose

as Mary Rose

Casualty

62

TV show · as Barb Edmonds / Joyce Paice

Worlds Beyond

TV show · as Julia

Time for Murder

TV show · as Sarah Penwarden

Natural World

80

TV show · as Narrator

Storyboard

TV show · as Polly Swift

1970s

1 title · average score 63

The South Bank Show

63

TV show · as Claire Clairmont