Amanda Root was born in Essex in 1963. Amanda had enjoyed acting at school and whilst studying A levels at College found she had excellent teachers in Drama and English. She went on to train at the Weber Douglas drama school.
Amanda was a member of The Royal Shakespeare Company for five years from 1987, playing Juliet, Lady Macbeth and Cressida in Troilus and Cresside.
Over the past few years she has concentrated on film and television roles including Anne Eliot in Persuasion (1995), Dolly in Anna Karenina (2000), Mrs Davilow in Daniel
… More Deronda (2002) and Winifred in The Forsyte Saga (202/2003).
Amanda has also recorded readings of novels including Jane Austen's Persuasion and Northanger Abbey and Vera Brittains Letters From a Lost Generation. She has also performed in a number of dramas for BBC radio including Mansfield Park (1997), Dr Thorne (1999) and Go Ask Alice ( 2000).
Amanda has said " The reason I am an actor is that I want to say things that are of value, that touch people, that are life-giving, not life-taking".
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