Amanda Root

Amanda Root (born 1963 in Chelmsford, United Kingdom) is an English stage and screen actress and a former voice actress for children's television series for years.

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.