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Miranda Richardson

Miranda Richardson

Birthday: 1958-03-03 | Place of Birth: Southport, Lancashire, England, UK

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The House

as    Aunt Clarice (voice)

2020
Rams

as    Kat

2019
Curfew

as    Lou

2018
Girlfriends

as    Sue

2017
Churchill

as    Clementine Churchill

2017
Stronger

as    Patty Bauman

2015
And Then There Were None

as    Emily Brent

2015
Casanova

as    Marquise d'Urfé

2015
Testament of Youth

as    Miss Lorimer

2015
An Inspector Calls

as    Sybil Birling

2014
Mapp & Lucia

as    Elizabeth Mapp

2014
Mapp and Lucia

as    Elizabeth Mapp

2014
2013
Belle

as    Lady Ashford

2012
World Without End

as    Mother Cecilia

2012
World Without End

as    Mother Cecilia

2012
Parade's End

as    Mrs. Wannop

2011
Turtle: The Incredible Journey

as    Narrator (Voice)

2010
Made in Dagenham

as    Barbara Castle

2010
Rubicon

as    Katherine Rhumor

2009
The Young Victoria

as    Duchess of Kent

2008
A Fox's Tale

as    Anna Conda (voice)

2007
Fred Claus

as    Annette Claus

2007
Spinning Into Butter

as    Dean Catherine Kenney

2007
Puffball

as    Mabs Tucker

2007
Provoked: A True Story

as    Veronica Scott

2006
Merlin's Apprentice

as    Lady of the Lake

2006
Wah-Wah

as    Lauren Compton