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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-03-03
Place of birth
Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
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Cast
The Hours
2002
7.26
Paris Je T'aime
2006
6.77
Empire of the Sun
1987
7.50
Sleepy Hollow
1999
7.19
The Apostle
1997
6.30
Get Carter
2000
5.19
Southland Tales
2007
5.22
Damage
1992
6.60
The Prince & Me
2004
6.21
Fred Claus
2007
5.86
The Evening Star
1996
6.00
The Miracle Maker
2000
6.14
Fatherland
1994
6.17
The Crying Game
1992
6.84
Chicken Run
2000
6.83
Kansas City
1996
6.09
Alice in Wonderland
1999
6.22
Puffball
2007
3.50
Spinning Into Butter
2009
5.40
Snow White
2001
5.90
The Actors
2003
5.58
Enchanted April
1991
6.70
Spider
2002
6.60
The Phantom of the Opera
2004
7.26
Dance with a Stranger
1985
6.10
The Magician's Elephant
2023
6.80
Turtle: The Incredible Journey
2009
6.60
The Rage in Placid Lake
2003
6.40
Wah-Wah
2005
5.80
Provoked: A True Story
2007
6.70
The Big Brass Ring
1999
4.20
Made in Dagenham
2010
6.70
The King and I
1999
5.40
Tom & Viv
1994
6.10
The Young Victoria
2009
7.17
St. Ives
1998
5.38
The House
2022
7.02
Gideon's Daughter
2005
6.20
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
7.60
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012
7.53
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
7.50
Saint-Ex
1996
2.30
The Designated Mourner
1997
5.17
Twisted Obsession
1989
5.40
Operation Orangutan
2015
7.00
The Night and the Moment
1995
4.30
Old Times
1991
4.00
Belle
2013
7.08
Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
5.84
The Bachelor
1990
0.00
The Scold's Bridle
1998
6.14
After Pilkington
1987
6.83
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023
6.93
Les Dogs
1990
0.00
Testament of Youth
2015
7.26
Hidden Universe
2013
6.80
Demonella
1993
0.00
Jealousy
1993
0.00
Century
1993
4.90
Muppets Most Wanted
2014
6.30
Lost Property
1986
0.00
Blackadder: Back & Forth
1999
6.99
Ted & Ralph
1998
6.60
The Yellow Tie
2025
8.00
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
1989
4.38
Comic Aid
2005
5.00
Falling Angels
2003
5.82
Eat the Rich
1987
6.20
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
2004
5.20
An Inspector Calls
2015
7.41
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
1992
4.50
The Fool
1990
7.00
The Line, the Cross & the Curve
1994
7.10
Churchill
2017
6.17
Stronger
2017
6.97
iBoy
2017
5.95
The Master Builder
1988
0.00
Redemption
1991
0.00
Casanova
2015
8.20
Swann
1997
2.50
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
0.00
The Innocent
1985
5.50
Mountain Language
1988
4.00
Transmutations
1985
3.90
Sweet as You Are
1988
3.80
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
2000
7.13
Rams
2020
6.29
The Death of the Heart
1987
8.00
Broken Skin
1991
0.00
Communicators From Hell
1989
0.00
The Demon Lover
1986
0.00
Like Tears in Rain
2024
7.67
The Bitter End
0.00