Miranda Richardson

Miranda Richardson

  • Birthday: 1958-03-03
  • Place of birth: Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
  • Also know as: Miranda Jane Richardson

Biography

Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miranda Richardson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Enchanted April

1991

As Rose Arbuthnot

Dance with a Stranger

1985

As Ruth Ellis

Turtle: The Incredible Journey

2009

As Narrator (Voice)

Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

As Narrator (voice)

Falling Angels

2003

As Mary Field

The King and I

1999

As Anna Leonowens (voice)

Broken Skin

1991

As

Operation Orangutan

2015

As Narrator (voice)

Lost Property

1986

As Anne

Get Carter

2000

As Gloria Carter

Fatherland

1994

As Charlie Maguire

The Crying Game

1992

As Jude

Kansas City

1996

As Carolyn Stilton

Spider

2002

As Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg

Spinning Into Butter

2007

As Dean Catherine Kenney

Puffball

2007

As Mabs Tucker

Provoked: A True Story

2007

As Veronica Scott

Tom & Viv

1994

As Vivienne Haigh-Wood

St. Ives

1998

As Susan Gilchrist

Gideon's Daughter

2005

As Stella

Saint-Ex

1996

As Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

Twisted Obsession

1989

As Marilyn

The Bachelor

1990

As Friederike / Widow Sommer

The Scold's Bridle

1998

As Dr. Sarah Blakeney

After Pilkington

1987

As Penny Newhouse

A Fox's Tale

2008

As Anna Conda (voice)

The Line, the Cross & the Curve

1993

As Mysterious Woman

Churchill

2017

As Clementine Churchill

Swann

1997

As Sarah Maloney

Mountain Language

1988

As Young Woman

Sweet As You Are

1988

As Julia Perry

The Yellow Tie

0000

As Ioana Celibidache

Empire of the Sun

1987

As Mrs. Victor

Sleepy Hollow

1999

As Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch

The Apostle

1997

As Toosie

Damage

1992

As Ingrid Fleming

The Rage in Placid Lake

2003

As Sylvia Lake

The Big Brass Ring

1999

As Dinah Pellarin

Made in Dagenham

2010

As Barbara Castle

Old Times

1991

As

Century

1993

As Clara

The Master Builder

1988

As Hilde Wangel

Stronger

2017

As Patty Bauman

Rams

2020

As Kat

The Prince & Me

2004

As Queen Rosalind

Fred Claus

2007

As Annette Claus

The Evening Star

1996

As Patsy Carpenter

Alice in Wonderland

1999

As Queen of Hearts

The Phantom of the Opera

2004

As Madame Giry

The Young Victoria

2009

As Duchess of Kent

iBoy

2017

As Nancy 'Nan' Harvey

Redemption

1991

As Valerie Paris

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

1988

As Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX

Les Dogs

1990

As Bride's Mother

Jealousy

1993

As Stella/Elsbeth

The Hours

2002

As Vanessa Bell

The Actors

2003

As Mrs. Magnani

Wah-Wah

2005

As Lauren Compton

An Inspector Calls

2015

As Sybil Birling

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

1993

As Miss Straugheim

Chicken Run

2000

As Mrs. Tweedy (voice)

Belle

2013

As Lady Ashford

Blackadder: Back & Forth

1999

As Queenie

Casanova

2015

As Marquise d'Urfé

Ted & Ralph

1998

As Henrietta Blough-Pendleton

The House

2022

As Aunt Clarice (voice)

The Magician's Elephant

2023

As Madam LaVaughn (voice)

Demonella

1993

As Marie Antoinette

Testament of Youth

2014

As Miss Lorimer

The Innocent

1985

As Mary Turner

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

2023

As Mrs Tweedy (voice)

The Miracle Maker

2000

As Mary Magdalene

Comic Aid

2005

As

The Death of the Heart

1987

As Daphne Heccomb

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

2023

As Self – Contributor

Underworld

1985

As Oriel

Southland Tales

2006

As Nana Mae Frost

Eat the Rich

1987

As DHSS Blonde

Muppets Most Wanted

2014

As Berliner at Window

Paris Je T'aime

2006

As La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

2012

As (archive footage)

Production

Orango rischio fatale

2015

As Actor's Assistant

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