Biography
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
Complete Filmography
Enigma
2025
as Narrator (voice)
Two legends contested their identities as women in the court of public opinion: April Ashley, who was immortalized as a trailblazer by embracing her t...
This Is Christmas
2022
as Miranda
Follow Adam and Emma on their daily commute from the village of Langton to London, where they meet the same passengers every day. One morning, Adam br...
The Gallery
2022
as Nicky
An art curator is held hostage by a portraitist who threatens to detonate a bomb unless their demands are met. 'The Gallery' contains two interactive ...
Creation Stories
2021
as Vicky
The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its infamous founder Alan McGee; the man responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtra...
Last Christmas
2019
as Dr. Addis
Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a depa...
Colette
2018
as Rachilde
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France...
The Sisters Brothers
2018
as Mayfield
Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the...
Eddie Elise
2018
as Elise
The young ex-offender Jason arrives home after spending years in prison, only to discover that his father had transitioned to a transgender woman and ...
Sis
2017
as Steph
Two estranged sisters, religious Fran and transgender Steph, reconcile their differences during the course of one night where honesty is the only poli...
Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe
2016
as Camilla Stevens
Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe follows Hank in the run up to Christmas as he prepares for a new baby brother. But Hank's life never runs smoothly...
Approach/Withdraw
2016
as Narrator
Approach/Withdraw is a ten-minute, 16mm film narrated by Rebecca Root, which explores how public understandings of oestrogen and sex hormones affect t...
The Danish Girl
2015
as Nurse
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as L...
Normal
2012
as Cynthia
Normal is a biographical film that follows the turbulent lives of people who work in the sex industry. Nicola Mai's groundbreaking and unique form of ...
Hear Me Roar
N/A
as Elizabeth Bellinger
Elizabeth Bellinger became one of the few transgender people in Britain to get married in the 1980s. She kept this ceremony secret from almost everyon...
Hear Me Roar
N/A
Executive Producer
Elizabeth Bellinger became one of the few transgender people in Britain to get married in the 1980s. She kept this ceremony secret from almost everyon...