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. 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 influential transgender actress in mainstream television, alongside others like Alexandra Billings, Laverne Cox and Adèle Anderson.
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Root was born in Woking, Surrey, England, assigned male. She is the second child of an auxiliary nurse mother, while her father was a banker in Guildford. She has two sisters.
When she was 11 years old, her family moved to rural Oxfordshire where she attended Bartholomew School in Eynsham. Root performed with local drama groups as well as the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, whose alumni includes actors such as Lucy Briers, Jonathan Cake, and Daniel Craig.
She went on to graduate from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a Master of Arts in Voice Studies in 2012.
