Dakota Blue Richards

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1994-04-11 (30 years old)

Place of Birth Chelsea, London, England, UK

Dakota Blue Richards

Biography

​Dakota Blue Richards (born 11 April 1994) is an English actress. Ten thousand girls turned up for open auditions in Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter and Kendal for the role of Lyra Belacqua in the adaptation of 'His Dark Materials: Northern Lights' to the film 'The Golden Compass (2007)'. In June 2006, twelve-year-old Dakota, a Londoner schoolgirl, was awarded the part after the casting directors' took a shine to her in the Cambridge auditions. Her mother is an American anthropologist.

Known For

Actor

2020
What The Butler Saw

as Geraldine

2019
Beecham House

as Margaret Osbourne

2016
ChickLit

as Zoe

2016
2014
Girl Power

as Cass

2014
The Fold

as Eloise Ashton

2013
Endeavour

as WPC Shirley Trewlove

2013
2009
2009
The Secret of Moonacre

as Maria Merryweather

2008
Dustbin Baby

as April

2007
The Golden Compass

as Lyra Belacqua

2007
Skins

as Franky Fitzgerald

2007
Skins

as Francesca "Franky" Fitzgerald

1952
Today

as Self

Director

Each Coming Night

as Director

Writer