Miranda Richardson profile
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Miranda Richardson

3rd March 1958 Southport, Lancashire, England, UK Acting

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.

105 Movies 38 TV Shows 143 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

The House poster
The House 14th January 2022 as Aunt Clarice (voice)
Rams poster
Rams 15th October 2020 as Kat
Stronger poster
Stronger 22nd September 2017 as Patty Bauman
iBoy poster
iBoy 27th January 2017 as Nancy 'Nan' Harvey
Casanova poster
Casanova 1st August 2015 as Marquise d'Urfé
Belle poster
Belle 1st May 2013 as Lady Ashford
Wah-Wah poster
Wah-Wah 17th August 2005 as Lauren Compton
Spider poster
Spider 6th November 2002 as Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg
Sleepy Hollow poster
Sleepy Hollow 19th November 1999 as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
Ted & Ralph poster
Ted & Ralph 26th December 1998 as Henrietta Blough-Pendleton
St. Ives poster
St. Ives 1st January 1998 as Susan Gilchrist
Swann poster
Swann 1st March 1997 as Sarah Maloney
Saint-Ex poster
Saint-Ex 17th November 1996 as Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
Tom & Viv poster
Tom & Viv 15th April 1994 as Vivienne Haigh-Wood
Damage poster
Damage 2nd December 1992 as Ingrid Fleming
The Fool poster
The Fool 7th December 1990 as Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
Casanova poster
Casanova 7th August 2015 as Marquise d'Urfé
Rubicon poster
Rubicon 13th June 2010 as Katherine Rhumor
Merlin poster
Merlin 26th April 1998 as Lady of the Lake / Mab
Blackadder poster
Blackadder 15th June 1983 as Amy Hardwood, the elusive shadow