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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
March 3, 1958
Place of Birth:
Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
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Miranda Richardson
Biography
Miranda Jane Richardson (born March 3, 1958) is an English actor. She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger (1985) and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Damage (1992) and Tom & Viv (1994). A seven-time BAFTA Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Damage. She has also been nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, winning twice for Enchanted April (1992) and the TV film Fatherland (1994). In 1996, one critic asserted that she is "the greatest actress of our time in any medium" after she appeared in Orlando at the Edinburgh Festival. Richardson began her career in 1979 and made her West End debut in the 1981 play Moving, before being nominated for the 1987 Olivier Award for Best Actress for A Lie of the Mind. Her television credits include Blackadder (1986–1989), A Dance to the Music of Time (1997), Merlin (1998), The Lost Prince (2003), Gideon's Daughter (2006), the sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (2007), and Rubicon (2010). She was nominated for the 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for Operation Orangutan.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Like Tears in Rain | Self |
| 2023 | The Magician's Elephant | Madam LaVaughn (voice) |
| 2023 | Blackadder: A Cunning Story | Self – Contributor |
| 2023 | Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Mrs Tweedy (voice) |
| 2022 | The House | Aunt Clarice (voice) |
| 2020 | Rams | Kat |
| 2017 | Churchill | Clementine Churchill |
| 2017 | Stronger | Patty Bauman |
| 2017 | iBoy | Nancy 'Nan' Harvey |
| 2015 | Operation Orangutan | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Testament of Youth | Miss Lorimer |
| 2015 | An Inspector Calls | Sybil Birling |
| 2015 | Casanova | Marquise d'Urfé |
| 2014 | Muppets Most Wanted | Berliner at Window |
| 2014 | The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm | Mrs Blitherington |
| 2013 | Belle | Lady Ashford |
| 2013 | Hidden Universe | |
| 2013 | Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips | Self / Mrs. Victor |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Made in Dagenham | Barbara Castle |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Rita Skeeter |
| 2009 | Turtle: The Incredible Journey | Narrator (Voice) |
| 2009 | The Young Victoria | Duchess of Kent |
| 2008 | Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga | Self |
| 2008 | Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments | Self |
| 2007 | Southland Tales | Nana Mae Frost |
| 2007 | Fred Claus | Annette Claus |
| 2007 | Puffball | Mabs Tucker |
| 2007 | Spinning Into Butter | Dean Catherine Kenney |
| 2007 | Provoked: A True Story | Veronica Scott |
| 2006 | Paris Je T'aime | La femme au trench rouge (Bastille) |
| 2005 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Rita Skeeter |
| 2005 | Wah-Wah | Lauren Compton |
| 2005 | Gideon's Daughter | Stella |
| 2005 | Comic Aid | |
| 2004 | The Prince & Me | Queen Rosalind |
| 2004 | The Phantom of the Opera | Madame Giry |
| 2004 | Churchill: The Hollywood Years | Eva Braun |
| 2003 | The Actors | Mrs. Magnani |
| 2003 | The Rage in Placid Lake | Sylvia Lake |
| 2003 | Falling Angels | Mary Field |
| 2002 | The Hours | Vanessa Bell |
| 2002 | Spider | Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg |
| 2001 | Snow White | Queen Elspeth |
| 2001 | Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making | Self |
| 2000 | Get Carter | Gloria Carter |
| 2000 | The Miracle Maker | Mary Magdalene (voice) |
| 2000 | Chicken Run | Mrs. Tweedy (voice) |
| 2000 | Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend | Self |
| 1999 | Sleepy Hollow | Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch |
| 1999 | Alice in Wonderland | Queen of Hearts |
| 1999 | The Big Brass Ring | Dinah Pellarin |
| 1999 | The King and I | Anna Leonowens (voice) |
| 1999 | Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang | Miss Fowl |
| 1999 | Blackadder: Back & Forth | Queenie |
| 1998 | St. Ives | Susan Gilchrist |
| 1998 | The Scold's Bridle | Dr. Sarah Blakeney |
| 1998 | Ted & Ralph | Henrietta Blough-Pendleton |
| 1997 | The Apostle | Toosie |
| 1997 | The Designated Mourner | Judy |
| 1997 | Swann | Sarah Maloney |
| 1996 | The Evening Star | Patsy Carpenter |
| 1996 | Kansas City | Carolyn Stilton |
| 1996 | Saint-Ex | Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry |
| 1995 | The Night and the Moment | Julie |
| 1994 | Fatherland | Charlie Maguire |
| 1994 | Tom & Viv | Vivienne Haigh-Wood |
| 1993 | Demonella | Marie Antoinette |
| 1993 | Jealousy | Stella/Elsbeth |
| 1993 | Century | Clara |
| 1993 | The Line, the Cross & the Curve | Mysterious Woman |
| 1993 | Space Virgins from Planet Sex | Miss Straugheim |
| 1992 | Damage | Ingrid Fleming |
| 1992 | The Crying Game | Jude |
| 1992 | Mr. Wakefield's Crusade | Sandra |
| 1991 | Enchanted April | Rose Arbuthnot |
| 1991 | Old Times | |
| 1991 | Redemption | Valerie Paris |
| 1991 | Broken Skin | |
| 1990 | The Bachelor | Friederike / Widow Sommer |
| 1990 | Les Dogs | Bride's Mother |
| 1990 | The Fool | Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia |
| 1989 | Twisted Obsession | Marilyn |
| 1989 | Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage | Early Bird |
| 1989 | Communicators From Hell | |
| 1988 | Blackadder's Christmas Carol | Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX |
| 1988 | The Master Builder | Hilde Wangel |
| 1988 | Mountain Language | Young Woman |
| 1988 | Sweet As You Are | Julia Perry |
| 1987 | Empire of the Sun | Mrs. Victor |
| 1987 | After Pilkington | Penny Newhouse |
| 1987 | Eat the Rich | DHSS Blonde |
| 1987 | The Death of the Heart | Daphne Heccomb |
| 1986 | Lost Property | Anne |
| 1986 | The Demon Lover | Gina |
| 1985 | Dance with a Stranger | Ruth Ellis |
| 1985 | The Innocent | Mary Turner |
| 1985 | Transmutations | Oriel |
| The Yellow Tie | Ioana Celibidache | |
| The Bitter End |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Last Anniversary | |
| 2021 | Fate: The Winx Saga | Rosalind |
| 2019 | Good Omens | Shax |
| 2019 | Modern Love | Jane |
| 2019 | Curfew | Lou |
| 2019 | Good Omens | Madame Tracy |
| 2018 | Girlfriends | Sue |
| 2015 | And Then There Were None | Emily Brent |
| 2015 | Casanova | Marquise d'Urfé |
| 2014 | Mapp and Lucia | Elizabeth Mapp |
| 2012 | Parade's End | Mrs. Wannop |
| 2012 | Dead Boss | Jo |
| 2012 | World Without End | Mother Cecilia |
| 2010 | Rubicon | Katherine Rhumor |
| 2007 | The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle | |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self - Guest |
| 2006 | Merlin's Apprentice | Lady of the Lake |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill | Corky (British dub voice) |
| 2005 | Final Chance to Save | Herself |
| 2003 | The Lost Prince | Queen Mary |
| 2002 | V Graham Norton | Self |
| 1998 | Merlin | Lady of the Lake / Mab |
| 1998 | The Scold's Bridle | Dr Sarah Blakeney |
| 1997 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Pamela Flitton |
| 1993 | Shooting Stars | Self |
| 1992 | Absolutely Fabulous | Bettina |
| 1991 | Performance | Anna |
| 1990 | Die Kinder | Sidonie Reiger |
| 1988 | This Morning | Self |
| 1988 | The Storyteller | Witch |
| 1986 | Unnatural Causes | Anne Forrest |
| 1985 | A Woman of Substance | Paula McGill Amory |
| 1983 | Natural World | Narrator |
| 1983 | Blackadder | Nurse Mary |
| 1983 | Blackadder | Queen Elizabeth I |
| 1983 | Blackadder | Amy Hardwood, the elusive shadow |
| 1982 | The Comic Strip Presents... | Bride's Mother |
| 1982 | The Comic Strip Presents... | Miss Straugheim |
| 1982 | The Comic Strip Presents... | Stella/Elsbeth |
| 1982 | The Comic Strip Presents... | Marie Antoinette |
| 1979 | Agony | Gudrun |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |