Rebecca Root is an English actress, comedian and voice coach. She was rated 18th in The Independent on Sunday's Rainbow List 2014, which named her as one of the very few openly transgender actresses in mainstream television, alongside Laverne Cox and Adèle Anderson.

KNOWN FOR

Casualty
1997
Sex Education
2021
The Wheel of Time
2025
Hollyoaks
2015
The Queen's Gambit
2020
Celebrity Mastermind
2015
Heartstopper
2023
Keeping Up Appearances
1995
Monsieur Spade
2024
Flack
2019
The Detectives
1996
The Romanoffs
2018

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
33
Producing
1
2026
Heartstopper Forever
as Principal Edwards
2025
Enigma
as Narrator (voice)
2025
The Breakdown of a Toxic Relationship as told by Fluffmeister, a Poodle of Questionable Heritage
2025
The Wheel of Time
as Keeper
2025
Hollyoaks
as Melanie Athill
2024
Monsieur Spade
as Cynthia Fitzsimmons
2023
Heartstopper
as Principal Edwards
2023
Annika
as Alex Carrigan
2022
This Is Christmas
as Miranda
2022
The Gallery
as Nicky
2022
The Rising
as DS Diana Aird
2021
Creation Stories
as Vicky
2021
Sex Education
as Leanne
2021
Finding Alice
as Lindsay
2020
The Queen's Gambit
as Miss Lonsdale
2019
Last Christmas
as Dr. Addis
2019
Flack
as Allie Gregs
2018
Eddie Elise
as Elise
2018
Colette
as Rachilde
2018
The Sisters Brothers
as Mayfield
2018
The Romanoffs
as Dana
2017
Sis
as Steph
2016
Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe
as Camilla Stevens
2016
Approach/Withdraw
as Narrator
2015
The Danish Girl
as Nurse
2015
Hollyoaks
as Midwife
2015
Boy Meets Girl
as Judy
2015
Celebrity Mastermind
2012
Normal
as Cynthia
1997
Casualty
as Psychiatric SHO
1996
The Detectives
as Vet
1995
Keeping Up Appearances
as The Engineer
Hear Me Roar
as Elizabeth Bellinger