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Rebecca Root was born on 10 May, 1969 in Woking, Surrey, England, is an English actress and stand-up comedian. Discover Rebecca Root's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?
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| Occupation |
Actress · comedian · voice coach |
| Age |
54 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus |
| Born |
10 May, 1969 |
| Birthday |
10 May |
| Birthplace |
Woking, Surrey, England |
| Nationality |
United Kingdom
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She is a member of famous Actress with the age 54 years old group.
Rebecca Root Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Rebecca Root Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Rebecca Root worth at the age of 54 years old? Rebecca Root’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actress. She is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Rebecca Root's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Pending |
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Under Review |
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Timeline
Rebecca Root is an English actress, comedian and voice coach.
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, working in a range of television and theatre productions, notably in TV shows like Keeping Up Appearances and Casualty, and stage plays like The Lady's Not For Burning, Hamlet, and Tartuffe.
She started that career after she transitioned from male to female in 2003 and acting work became harder to find.
Root also advertises voice therapy lessons specifically for transgender people to help them "find a voice they feel fits their gender".
Root is a bisexual trans woman and currently resides in London with her partner, actress Elizabeth Menabney.
She is also a passionate advocate for LGBT rights and is patron for the charities Diversity Role Models and Liberate Jersey.
She went on to graduate from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a Master of Arts in Vocal Studies in 2012.
Her thesis, "There and Back Again: Adventures in Genderland", has since been published in the peer reviewed journal Voice and Speech Review.
She was rated 18th in The Independent on Sunday's Rainbow List 2014, which named her as an openly transgender actress in mainstream television, alongside others like Alexandra Billings, Laverne Cox and Adèle Anderson.
Root was born in Woking, Surrey, England.
She is the second child of an auxiliary nurse mother, while her father was a banker in Guildford.
She has an older sister called Rachel and a younger sister, Rosalind, who is eight years her junior.
At 11 years old her family moved to rural Oxfordshire where she attended Bartholomew School in Eynsham.
As a young person she performed with local drama groups as well as the prestigious National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, where she was a contemporary of actors Lucy Briers, Jonathan Cake, and Daniel Craig.
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.
Before her breakthrough in 2015 playing a supporting role in the award-winning film The Danish Girl (her debut in film) and a lead role in the groundbreaking BBC Two romantic sitcom Boy Meets Girl, Root considered that she played roles described as “a romantic lead, debonair, knight, a soldier—typically and boringly ‘normal.’”
In 2015 Root also starred in the BBC Radio 4 drama 1977, about the transgender popular 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 flat.
She has appeared in the Doctor Who audio series Stranded, part of the Eighth Doctor's adventures, playing Tania Bell, the Doctor's first openly transgender companion, and an operative of Torchwood monitoring the Eighth Doctor when he is trapped on Earth due to the TARDIS suffering damage.
Root is also a voice coach, teaching at the East 15 Acting School and from her home in Highgate, London.
