Born in Chelmsford, England in 1963, Amanda Root spent years at the Royal Shakespeare Company before international audiences discovered her as Anne Elliot in the BBC and Sony adaptation of Persuasion (1995), one of the most admired Jane Austen films of that decade. She has since balanced quiet English television and film work with distinguished stage runs. On screen she is watchful and interior, letting emotion surface late rather than early. Long undervalued outside the theatre, she is one of British acting's most refined subtle performers. Read more