Rebecca Root

Rebecca Root is an English actress, comedian and voice coach. She is most well-known for playing the leading role in the 2015 BBC Two sitcom Boy Meets Girl. She has performed the role of Siobhan in the National Theatre's touring production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

She was rated 18th in The Independent on Sundays Rainbow List 2014, which named her as an influential transgender actress in mainstream television, alongside others like Alexandra Billings, Laverne Cox and Adèle Anderson.

She went on to graduate from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a Master of Arts in Voice Studies in 2012.

Career

After finishing her sixth form education in 1987, Root moved to London full time in order to train as an actor at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts spent the next decade as a jobbing actor,

In 2015, Root also starred in the BBC Radio 4 drama 1977, about the popular transgender composer Angela Morley who had become a household name to British radio audiences as Wally Stott. It followed the year in which Morley was enlisted to complete composition of the musical soundtrack to the film Watership Down in three weeks. Root has also appeared in the Doctor Who audio series Stranded, part of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, playing Tania Bell, the Doctor's first transgender companion, and an operative of Torchwood monitoring the Eighth Doctor when he is trapped on Earth due to the TARDIS suffering damage. and Liberate Jersey.

Filmography