Miranda Richardson

Known for ActingBorn 1958-03-03 (age 68)Southport, Lancashire, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Bachelor

The Yellow Tie

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips

The Death of the Heart

Casanova

Good Omens

Fate: The Winx Saga

The Storyteller

Like Tears in Rain

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

The Fool

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Blackadder

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Rubicon

And Then There Were None

Modern Love

Shooting Stars

An Inspector Calls

Shades of Darkness

A Woman of Substance

Absolutely Fabulous

Testament of Youth

Empire of the Sun

The Last Anniversary

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

The Phantom of the Opera

The Hours

The Comic Strip Presents...

The Young Victoria

The House

After Pilkington

Belle

Natural World

The Lost Prince

Sleepy Hollow

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

The Line, the Cross & the Curve

Operation Orangutan

Stronger

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

The Magician's Elephant

Screen Two

Blackadder: Back & Forth

Provoked: A True Story

Ted & Ralph