Amanda Root
Also Known As: 아만다 루트
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chelmsford, Essex, England
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Birthday: January 01, 1963
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Female
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Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall
Overview: 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'.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-09
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Fiona's Story
Overview: Fiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-31
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Allelujah
Overview: When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their planning of a concert in honor of the hospital's most celebrated nurse. But there might be something more threatening to the hospital itself, more deadly than the politicians ready to shut down the place at a moment's notice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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The Robber Bride
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-03
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The BFG
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-25
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Persuasion
Overview: Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick -- who is now rich, successful, and perhaps still in love with Anne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-01
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Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-20
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
Overview: It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Overview: A prequel to Marion and Geoff, which captures on camcorder the fateful events at a garden party when mini-cab driver Keith's life fell apart. Friends and family have gathered for a barbecue to celebrate the career of Keith's wife Marion, who is at the party with her boss, Mr Sushimoto, and her colleague, Geoff. However, Keith's father-in-law uncovers the true extent of Marion's naked ambition, with humiliating results for Keith.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-03
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Mary Rose
Overview: 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…
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Hildegard
Overview: An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle Ages, her legacy comprising some of the most radiant accounts of religious experience ever.
Genres: Documentary Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-03
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Their Finest
Overview: During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-19
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The Man Who Cried
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-25
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Breaking the Code
Overview: 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.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-17
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Deep in the Heart
Overview: Two British filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about Austin, Texas, and encounter strange and eccentric characters along the way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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The Black Prince
Overview: The Black Prince follows the story of the last Sikh Maharaja — the son of the powerful ruler Ranjit Singh — who was placed on the throne at the age of five, after the death of his father. In 1849, the young prince was removed from the throne and eventually sent off to England. His attempts to return to India and reclaim his kingdom were subsequently thwarted by the British.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-21
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Love Again
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-26
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Summerland
Overview: A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-24
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Big Cat
Overview: Alice no longer expects a knight on a white charger to enter her life. Then she meets Leo. For the first time Alice begins to understand love and, for a while, it seems that she is going to live happily ever after.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-06
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