Rebecca Root

Rebecca Root
Root at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival
Born
Alma materRoyal Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupations
  • Actress
  • comedian
  • voice coach
Years active1995–present
Websiterebeccaroot.co.uk

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.[1] 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 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.[2]

  1. ^ "Boy Meets Girl". BBC online. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference IndRain2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).