Rebecca Root

ActorProducer 1986–2026 (40 year career)

6.5 avg rating

Highest Rated

Heartstopper

2022 · as Principal Edwards

8.6

The Queen's Gambit

2020 · as Miss Lonsdale

8.4

Sex Education

2019 · as Leanne

8.2

Known For

Film

The Danish Girl

Nurse

Film

Last Christmas

Dr. Addis

Film

The Sisters Brothers

Mayfield

Film

Colette

Rachilde

Film

Heartstopper Forever

Principal Edwards

Film

This Is Christmas

Miranda

Film

Monsieur Spade

Cynthia Fitzsimmons

Film

The Rising

DS Diana Aird

Filmography

Acting (31)

Movies (16)

Heartstopper Forever

as Principal Edwards

Enigma

as Narrator (voice)

The Breakdown of a Toxic Relationship as told by Fluffmeister, a Poodle of Questionable Heritage

This Is Christmas

as Miranda

The Gallery

as Nicky

Creation Stories

as Vicky

Last Christmas

as Dr. Addis

Colette

as Rachilde

The Sisters Brothers

as Mayfield

Eddie Elise

as Elise

Sis

2017

as Steph

3.2

Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe

2016

as Camilla Stevens

6.6

Approach/Withdraw

2016

as Narrator

The Danish Girl

2015

as Nurse

7.5

Normal

2012

as Cynthia

Hear Me Roar

as Elizabeth Bellinger

Television (15)

Monsieur Spade

2024

as Cynthia Fitzsimmons

Heartstopper

as Principal Edwards

The Rising

as DS Diana Aird

The Wheel of Time

as Keeper

Annika

as Alex Carrigan

Finding Alice

as Lindsay

The Queen's Gambit

as Miss Lonsdale

Sex Education

as Leanne

Flack

as Allie Gregs

The Romanoffs

as Dana

Boy Meets Girl

as Judy

Hollyoaks

as Midwife

The Detectives

as Vet

Keeping Up Appearances

as The Engineer

Casualty

as Psychiatric SHO

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Hear Me Roar

Executive Producer