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Amanda Root (born 1963) is an English stage and screen actress and a former voice actress for children's programmes. Root is known for her starring role in the 1995 BBC film adaptation of Jane Austen's ''Persuasion'', her role in the British TV comedy ''All About Me'', as Miranda, alongside Richard Lumsden in 2004, and for voicing Sophie in ''The BFG''. She trained for the stage at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. ==Life and career== Root was born in Chelmsford, Essex. She began her career at the Leeds Playhouse in 1983 when she played Essie in Bernard Shaw's ''The Devil's Disciple''.
She 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.〔 In 1995, she starred as Anne Elliot in ''Persuasion'', co-starring Ciarán Hinds and John Woodvine. The film (made for TV, then released theatrically) was based on the novel by Jane Austen and was her first leading role in a film.〔(Regency World magazine interview with Amanda Root )〕 She won rave reviews (and was nominated for a Tony Award) in October 2008 for her portrayal of the control freak Sarah in The Old Vic's revival of Alan Ayckbourn's interlinked trilogy ''The Norman Conquests'', directed in the round by Matthew Warchus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amanda Root」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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