Amanda Root is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 stage and screen actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and a former voice actor for children's programmes.

Root known for her starring role in the 1995 BBC film adaptation of Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...

's Persuasion

Persuasion (1995 film)

Producer Fiona Finlay had for several years been interested in making a film based on the novel Persuasion, and approached screenwriter Nick Dear about adapting it for television...

and the British TV comedy All About Me

All About Me

All About Me is a British television sitcom starring Jasper Carrott about a multicultural family living in Birmingham. It was broadcast on BBC One from 2002 to 2004...

, as Miranda, alongside Richard Lumsden

Richard Lumsden

Richard James Lumsden is a British actor, writer, composer and musician. He played Nathan in Channel 4's drama Sugar Rush and on radio he plays Ray in Clare in the Community.-Career:...

 in 2004 and when she was a voice actor for voicing Sophie in BFG

The BFG (film)

The BFG is a 1989 animated film based on the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was first shown on Christmas Day 1989 on ITV1 in the UK.The film was dedicated to animator George Jackson who worked on numerous Cosgrove Hall Productions-Plot:...

.

She trained for the stage at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art

Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art

The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, formerly the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art, was a drama school, and originally a singing school, in London. It was one of the leading drama schools in Britain, and offered comprehensive training for those intending to pursue a...

.

Career

Amanda Root began her career at the Leeds Playhouse in 1983 when she played Essie in Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...

's The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist, George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright...

.

"She was a remarkably complete actress even in her early twenties, when physically she looked little more than a child. With her dark soulful eyes she could command a stage, and the Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...

 saw her talent very early on."

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

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor with both British and Irish citizenship. His portrayals of Christy Brown in My Left Foot and Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood won Academy and BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, and Screen Actors Guild as well as Golden Globe Awards for the latter...

's Romeo; a very young Lady Macbeth; Cressida to Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor and film director. He has appeared in such films as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, The Duchess and Schindler's List....

' Troilus, and Rosaline to his Berowne.

In 1995, she starred as Anne Elliot

Anne Elliot

Anne Elliot is the protagonist of Jane Austen's sixth and last completed novel, Persuasion .-Description:Anne is the overlooked middle daughter of a narcissistic and extravagant baronet, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall. Unique among Jane Austen heroines, she is 27 years old and seemingly a...

 in Persuasion

Persuasion (1995 film)

Producer Fiona Finlay had for several years been interested in making a film based on the novel Persuasion, and approached screenwriter Nick Dear about adapting it for television...

, co-starring Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds is an Irish film, television and stage actor. He has built up a reputation as a versatile character actor appearing in such high profile films as Road to Perdition, The Phantom of the Opera, Munich, There Will Be Blood and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. His television roles include...

 and John Woodvine

John Woodvine

John Woodvine is an English stage and screen actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.-Early life:...

. The film (made for TV, then released theatrically) was based on the novel

Persuasion (novel)

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year ....

 by Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...

 and provided Amanda Root with her first leading role in a film.

She won rave reviews in October 2008 for her portrayal of the control freak Sarah in the Old Vic

Old Vic

The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road. Established in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, it was taken over by Emma Cons in 1880 when it was known formally as the Royal Victoria Hall. In 1898, a niece of Cons, Lilian...

 revival of Alan Ayckbourn

Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their...

's interlinked trilogy The Norman Conquests, directed in the round by Matthew Warchus

Matthew Warchus

-Life:Warchus studied music and drama at Bristol University. He has directed for the National Youth Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Donmar Warehouse, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, Opera North, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera and in the West...

.http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/oct/07/theatre1

Audio

She was the voice of Sophie

Sophie Dahl

Sophie Dahl , born Sophie Holloway, is an English author and former model. She was born in London, the daughter of actor Julian Holloway and writer Tessa Dahl. Her maternal grandparents were author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal. Her paternal grandparents were actor Stanley Holloway and...

 in the animated film of Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander...

's The BFG

The BFG

The BFG is a children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, first published in 1982. The book was an expansion of a story told in Danny, the Champion of the World, an earlier Dahl book...

(1989).

She portrayed Joan de Pucelle

Joan of Arc

Saint Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" , is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the...

 in the Arkangel Shakespeare

Arkangel Shakespeare

The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare is a notable series of unabridged audio drama presentations of all 38 plays of William Shakespeare, released from 1998 onwards on cassette and then CD...

's 2000 production of Henry VI, Part 1

Henry VI, part 1

Henry VI, Part 1 or The First Part of Henry the Sixt is a history play by William Shakespeare, and possibly Thomas Nashe, believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England...

.

In 2006, Amanda Root undertook the marathon task of recording an unabridged audiobook of Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards...

's Jane Eyre. Published by Naxos

Naxos Records

Naxos Records is a record label specializing in classical music. Through a number of imprints, Naxos also releases genres including Chinese music, jazz, world music, and early rock & roll. The company was founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, a German-born resident of Hong Kong.Naxos is the largest...

 it has a running time of 20 hours 30 minutes, spread across 17 audio CDs: ISBN 9789626343579.

She had previously recorded an abridged 3-hour reading of Jane Austen's Persuasion, published by Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks in July 2004: ISBN 184456035X.

In November 2007 for BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

 she played in the Woman's Hour

Woman's Hour

Woman's Hour is a radio magazine programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom.-History:Created by Norman Collins and originally presented by Alan Ivimey the programme was first broadcast on 7 October 1946 on the BBC's Light Programme . It was transferred to its current home in 1973...

 Drama serial adaptation of F. Tennyson Jesse's novel A Pin to See the Peep Show http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0085bhb, and on 2 December 2007 was heard in Arnold Wesker

Arnold Wesker

Sir Arnold Wesker is a prolific British dramatist known for his contributions to kitchen sink drama. He is the author of 42 plays, 4 volumes of short stories, 2 volumes of essays, a book on journalism, a children's book, extensive journalism, poetry and other assorted writings...

's 75-minute radio play The Rocking Horse, commissioned by the BBC World Service

BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...

 to celebrate its 75th anniversary.http://www.arnoldwesker.com

As part of the BBC Radio 4 Hopes and Desires season, she played Lindsey, an incurable romantic who yearns to meet a modern-day Heathcliff

Heathcliff

Heathcliff may refer to:* Heathcliff , a comic strip about a cat of the same name** Heathcliff , a cartoon based on the above comic strip, produced by Ruby-Spears...

, in Nick Warburton's 30 minute comedy Catching Heathcliff, broadcast at 11pm on 15 January 2008.http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00773j8

Theatre

Her stage credits include:

• Essie in The Devil's Disciple
  The Devil's Disciple
  The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist, George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright...
  
  (Bernard Shaw), Leeds Playhouse, 1983
• Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
  
  and Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, RSC
  Royal Shakespeare Company
  The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
  
   small-scale tour 1983; The Other Place
  The Other Place
  The Other Place may refer to:* The Other Place , a 1999 young adult novel* The Other Place, a collection of short stories by J. B...
  
   1984
• Jessica in The Merchant of Venice
  The Merchant of Venice
  The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...
  
  , RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre
  Royal Shakespeare Theatre
  The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is a 1,040+ seat thrust stage theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the British playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is located in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon - Shakespeare's birthplace - in the English Midlands, beside the River Avon...
  
  , 1984
• Moth in Love's Labours Lost, RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1984
• Lucy Ellison in Today by Robert Holman
  Robert Holman
  Robert Holman is a British dramatist whose work has been produced since the 1970s at the RSC, the West End, Royal Court Theatre and elsewhere in the UK...
  
  , RSC
  Royal Shakespeare Company
  The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
  
   The Other Place, October 1984; The Pit
  The Pit
  -Places:* The Pit , the main indoor arena at the University of New Mexico* Elder 'The Pit' Stadium, the football stadium at Elder High School in Cincinnati, Ohio* The Pit, a 200-seat studio theatre at the Barbican Arts Centre in the City of London...
  
   Barbican
  Barbican
  A barbican, from medieval Latin barbecana, signifying the "outer fortification of a city or castle," with cognates in the Romance languages A barbican, from medieval Latin barbecana, signifying the "outer fortification of a city or castle," with cognates in the Romance languages A barbican, from...
  
  , May 1985
• Apricot in The Dragon’s Tail by Douglas Watkinson, Apollo Theatre
  Apollo Theatre
  The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. Designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield, and the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, its doors opened on 21 February 1901 with the American...
  
  , October 1985
• Neuroza in Tell Me Honestly (Kenneth Branagh
  Kenneth Branagh
  Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V , Much Ado About Nothing , Hamlet Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from...
  
  ), Not the RSC Festival, Almeida Theatre
  Almeida Theatre
  The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diverse range of drama and holds an annual summer festival of...
  
   1985
• Adela in The House of Bernarda Alba (Lorca
  Lorca
  Lorca is a municipality and town in the autonomous community of Murcia in southeastern Spain, 36 miles southwest of the city of Murcia. It had a population of 92,694 in 2010, up from the 2001 census total of 77,477. Lorca is the municipality with the second-largest surface area in Spain with...
  
  , directed by Nuria Espert
  Núria Espert
  Núria Espert is a TV, theatre and television Spanish actress, theatre and opera director....
  
  ), Lyric Hammersmith
  Lyric Hammersmith
  The Lyric Theatre, also known as the Lyric Hammersmith, is a theatre on King Street, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which takes pride in its original, "groundbreaking" productions....
  
  , September 1986; Globe Theatre
  Globe Theatre
  The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613...
  
  , January 1987
• Harriet in The Man of Mode
  The Man of Mode
  The Man of Mode, or, Sir Fopling Flutter is a Restoration comedy by George Etherege, written in 1676 and first performed March 2 of the same year. Gibbons argues that the play "offers the comedy of manners in its most concentrated form"...
  
  (George Etherege
  George Etherege
  Sir George Etherege was an English dramatist. He wrote the plays The Comical Revenge or, Love in a Tub in 1664, She Would if She Could in 1668, and The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter in 1676.-Early life:George Etherege was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, around 1635, to George Etherege and...
  
  ), RSC Swan Theatre
  Swan Theatre
  Swan Theatre may refer to:* The Swan , an Elizabethan playhouse* Swan Theatre , a theatre belonging to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, England...
  
  , July 1988; The Pit, April 1989
• Lady Macbeth in Macbeth
  Macbeth
  The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
  
  , RSC Barbican Theatre, May 1989
• Betty McNeil in Some Americans Abroad (Richard Nelson
  Richard Nelson
  Richard Nelson may refer to:* Richard Nelson , anthropologist and writer* Richard Nelson , Episcopal bishop in America...
  
  ), RSC The Pit, July 1989
• Cordelia in King Lear
  King Lear
  King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
  
  , RSC Almeida Theatre
  Almeida Theatre
  The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diverse range of drama and holds an annual summer festival of...
  
  . September 1989
• Cressida in Troilus and Cressida
  Troilus and Cressida
  Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was also described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus...
  
  , RSC Swan Theatre, April 1990; The Pit, June 1991
• Rosaline in Love's Labours Lost RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre, September 1990; Barbican Theatre, March 1991
• Nina in The Seagull
  The Seagull
  The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...
  
  (Anton Chekhov
  Anton Chekhov
  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
  
  ), RSC Swan Theatre; November 1990; Barbican Theatre July 1991
• Cleopatra in Caesar and Cleopatra
  Caesar and Cleopatra (play)
  Caesar and Cleopatra, a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw, was first staged in 1901 and first published with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and The Devil's Disciple in his 1901 collection, Three Plays for Puritans. It was first performed at Newcastle-on-Tyne on March 15, 1899...
  
  (Shaw),co-starring with Alec McCowen
  Alec McCowen
  Alexander Duncan "Alec" McCowen CBE is an English actor. He is known for his work in numerous film and stage productions. He was awarded the CBE in the 1985 New Year's Honours List.-Personal:...
  
  , Greenwich Theatre
  Greenwich Theatre
  The Greenwich Theatre is a local theatre located in Croom's Hill close to the centre of Greenwich in south-east London.-Building history:The building was originally a music hall created in 1855 as part of the neighbouring Rose and Crown public house, but the Rose and Crown Music Hall was...
  
  , February 1992
• The Manageress in 50 Revolutions (Murray Gold), Oxford Stage Company, Whitehall Theatre, September 1999
• Edith in Conversations After a Burial (Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
  
  ), Almeida Theatre
  Almeida Theatre
  The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diverse range of drama and holds an annual summer festival of...
  
  , September 2000
• Polina Bardin in Enemies (Maxim Gorky
  Maxim Gorky
  Alexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...
  
   in a version by David Hare
  David Hare (dramatist)
  Sir David Hare is an English playwright and theatre and film director.-Early life:Hare was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, the son of Agnes and Clifford Hare, a sailor. He was educated at Lancing, an independent school in West Sussex, and at Jesus College, Cambridge...
  
  ), Almeida Theatre, May 2006 http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/12600/enemies
• Sarah in The Norman Conquests
  The Norman Conquests
  The Norman Conquests is a trilogy of plays written in 1973 by Alan Ayckbourn. The small scale of the drama is typical of Ayckbourn. There are only six characters, namely Norman, his wife Ruth, her brother Reg and his wife Sarah, Ruth's sister Annie, and Tom, Annie's next-door-neighbour...
  
  , an interlinked trilogy by Alan Ayckbourn
  Alan Ayckbourn
  Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their...
  
  , Old Vic, October 2008 http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/21991/the-norman-conquests-table-manners-living
• Hester Collyer in The Deep Blue Sea
  The Deep Blue Sea
  The Deep Blue Sea is a play by Terence Rattigan. Premiering in London on 6 March 1952, it was praised by critics and audiences who saw it as evidence that Rattigan's view of life was growing deeper and more complex. It also won praise for actress Peggy Ashcroft, who co-starred with Kenneth More...
  
  (Terence Rattigan
  Terence Rattigan
  Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan CBE was one of England's most popular 20th-century dramatists. His plays are generally set in an upper-middle-class background...
  
  ), Chichester Festival Theatre
  Chichester Festival Theatre
  Chichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989....
  
  , July 2011

Films and Television

• This Lightning Always Strikes Twice (1985) (TV)
• The BFG
  The BFG
  The BFG is a children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, first published in 1982. The book was an expansion of a story told in Danny, the Champion of the World, an earlier Dahl book...
  
  (1989) - Sophie (voice)
• The House of Bernarda Alba (1991) (TV) - Adela
• The Buddha of Suburbia
  The Buddha of Suburbia
  The Buddha of Suburbia may refer to:* The Buddha of Suburbia , a 1990 novel by Hanif Kureishi* The Buddha of Suburbia , a 1993 BBC television series based on the book...
  
  (1993) (TV) - First TV Producer
• The Man Who Cried (1993) (TV) - Hilda Maxwell
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
  Shakespeare: the Animated Tales
  thumb|right|[[Banquo]] and [[Fleance]] from the "Macbeth" episode. Shakespeare: The Animated Tales comprised two six-part television series, first broadcast in 1992 and 1994...
  
  (TV)
  • The Taming of the Shrew
    The Taming of the Shrew
    The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1591.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself...
    
    (1994) - Kate
• Love on a Branch Line
  Love on a Branch Line (TV series)
  Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line by John Hadfield. It was broadcast in 1994 airing on the BBC in four 50 minute episodes.-Cast:-Synopsis:...
  
  (1994) (TV) - Miss Mounsey
• Persuasion
  Persuasion (1995 film)
  Producer Fiona Finlay had for several years been interested in making a film based on the novel Persuasion, and approached screenwriter Nick Dear about adapting it for television...
  
  (1995) - Anne Elliot
• Deep in the Heart (1996) - Kate Markham
• Breaking the Code
  Breaking the Code
  Breaking the Code is a 1986 play by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II...
  
  (1996) (TV) - Patricia 'Pat' Green
• Jane Eyre
  Jane Eyre (1996 film)
  Jane Eyre is a 1996 film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. This Hollywood version, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, is similar to the original novel, although it compresses and eliminates most of the plot in the last quarter of the book to make it fit into a 2-hour...
  
  (1996) - Miss Temple
• Turning World (1996) TV)
• Dangerfield
  Dangerfield (TV series)
  Dangerfield is a British drama series about a small town doctor / police surgeon, which ran for 6 series, between 1995 and 1999. Originally Nigel Le Vaillant played the central role , but this character later left the series, the focus switching to his replacement, played by Nigel Havers.The BBC...
  
  (TV)
  • Guilt (1997) - Alice Stratton
• Sunnyside Farm (TV series)
  • Episode 25 April 1997 (1997) - Dawn
• Original Sin (1997) (TV) - Frances Peverell
• Big Cat (1998) (TV) - Alice
• Mortimer's Law (1998) (TV) - Rachel Mortimer
• Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
  Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
  Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? is a film written by Ben Steiner, directed by Peter Hewitt and released in 1999. The British movie was filmed in Sheffield....
  
  (1999) - Margaret Robinson
• Anna Karenina (2000) (TV) - Dolly
• A Small Summer Party (2001) (TV) - Karen
• Holby City
  Holby City
  Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
  
  (TV)
  • Snakes and Ladders (2001) - Abbie Sawyer
• Daniel Deronda
  Daniel Deronda
  Daniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876. It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of her day...
  
  (2002) (TV) - Mrs. Davilow
• Waking the Dead
  Waking the Dead (TV series)
  Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...
  
  (TV)
  • Special Relationships (2002) - Lorna Gyles
• The Forsyte Saga (2002) (TV) - Winifred Dartie née Forsyte
• Foyle's War
  Foyle's War
  Foyle's War is a British detective drama television series set during World War II, created by screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz, and was commissioned by ITV after the long-running series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000. It has aired on ITV since 2002...
  
  (TV)
  • Fifty Ships (2003) - Elizabeth Lewes
• Little Britain
  Little Britain
  Little Britain is a British character-based comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC radio and then turned into a television show. It was written by comic duo David Walliams and Matt Lucas...
  
  (TV)
  • Most People in a Mini (2003) - Baby's Mother
• A Touch of Frost
  A Touch of Frost (TV series)
  A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....
  
  (TV)
  • Another Life (2003) - Delores Delmonte
• Love Again (BBC television film based on the life of the poet Philip Larkin, 2003) - Maeve Brennan
• The Forsyte Saga Series II (2003) (TV) - Winifred Dartie née Forsyte
• Midsomer Murders
  Midsomer Murders
  Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
  
  (TV)
  • A Talent for Life (2003) - Ruth Scholey
• Bloom (2004 short) - Helen Chapman
• All About Me
  All About Me
  All About Me is a British television sitcom starring Jasper Carrott about a multicultural family living in Birmingham. It was broadcast on BBC One from 2002 to 2004...
  
  (2004) (TV) - Miranda
• Rose and Maloney
  Rose and Maloney
  Rose and Maloney is a British television crime drama starring Sarah Lancashire and Phil Davis as Rose Linden and Maloney, two investigators working for the fictional Criminal Justice Review Agency. This agency takes on claims of miscarriages of justice, assessing whether there are grounds to...
  
  (TV)
  • Episode 1/2 (2004) - Marsha Campese
• London (2004) (TV) - Charlotte Brontë
• Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
  Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder
  Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder is a British five-part docudrama series produced by Touchpaper Television , which premièred on BBC One on 16 October 2004.-Overview:...
  
  - The Case of the Croydon Poisonings (2005) (TV) - Vera Sidney
• Empire (2005) (TV) - Noella
• The Robinsons
  The Robinsons
  The Robinsons is a British comedy television series that debuted on BBC Two on May 5, 2005. The show's central character is a divorced reinsurance actuary, Ed Robinson , who realises that reinsurance is not his passion and decides to rethink his life. The series is written and directed by Mark...
  
  (2005) (TV) - Maggie Robinson
• The Impressionists
  The Impressionists (BBC drama)
  The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution is a 4 part factual drama from the BBC, which reconstructs the origins of the Impressionist art movement.-Narrative:...
  
  (2006) (TV) - Alice Hoschedé
• The Afternoon Play
  The Afternoon Play
  The Afternoon Play is a series of individual plays which sometimes appear on BBC One during weekday afternoons. The first series began on 27 January 2003, and as of 2008 there have been five series...
  
  (TV)
  • The Last Will and Testament of Billy Two-Sheds (2006) - Andrea
• Brief Encounters (TV)
  • Lost & Found (2006) - June Makenzie
• Agatha Christie's Poirot
  Agatha Christie's Poirot
  Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was originally made by LWT and is now made by ITV Studios...
  
  (ITV)
  • Mrs McGinty's Dead
    Mrs McGinty's Dead
    Mrs. McGinty's Dead is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1952 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on March 3 of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition nine shillings and sixpence...
    
    (2008) - Mrs Shelagh Rendell

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