Miranda Richardson

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1958-03-03 (66 years old)

Place of Birth Southport, Lancashire, England, UK

Also Known As Miranda Jane Richardson

Miranda 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.

Known For

Actor

The Yellow Tie

as Ioana Celibidache

2024
2023
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

as Mrs Tweedy (voice)

2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story

as Self – Contributor

2023
The Magician's Elephant

as Madam LaVaughn (voice)

2022
The House

as Aunt Clarice (voice)

2021
2020
Rams

as Kat

2019
Modern Love

as Jane

2019
Good Omens

as Madame Tracy

2019
Good Omens

as Shax

2019
Curfew

as Lou

2018
2017
Stronger

as Patty Bauman

2017
Churchill

as Clementine Churchill

2017
iBoy

as Nancy 'Nan' Harvey

2015
An Inspector Calls

as Sybil Birling

2015
Casanova

as Marquise d'Urfé

2015
Orankipelastus

as Narrator (voice)

2015
2015
2015
Casanova

as Marquise d'Urfé

2014
Testament of Youth

as Miss Lorimer

2014
Muppets Most Wanted

as Berliner at Window

2014
Mapp and Lucia

as Elizabeth Mapp

2013
2013
Belle

as Lady Ashford

2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)

2012
World Without End

as Mother Cecilia

2012
Parade's End

as Mrs. Wannop

2012
Dead Boss

as Jo

2010
Made in Dagenham

as Barbara Castle

2010
Rubicon

as Katherine Rhumor

2009
Turtle: The Incredible Journey

as Narrator (Voice)

2009
The Young Victoria

as Duchess of Kent

2008
A Fox's Tale

as Anna Conda (voice)

2007
Southland Tales

as Nana Mae Frost

2007
Fred Claus

as Annette Claus

2007
Puffball

as Mabs Tucker

2007
Provoked: A True Story

as Veronica Scott

2007
Spinning Into Butter

as Dean Catherine Kenney

2006
Paris Je T'aime

as La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)

2006
The One Show

as Self - Guest

2006
Merlin's Apprentice

as Lady of the Lake

2005
2005
Wah-Wah

as Lauren Compton

2005
2005
The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill

as Corky (British dub voice)

2004
2004
The Prince & Me

as Queen Rosalind

2003
Falling Angels

as Mary Field

2003
2003
The Actors

as Mrs. Magnani

2003
The Lost Prince

as Queen Mary

2002
The Hours

as Vanessa Bell

2002
Spider

as Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg

2002
2001
Snow White

as Queen Elspeth

2000
Get Carter

as Gloria Carter

2000
Chicken Run

as Mrs. Tweedy (voice)

2000
The Miracle Maker

as Mary Magdalene (voice)

1999
Sleepy Hollow

as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch

1999
The Big Brass Ring

as Dinah Pellarin

1999
The King and I

as Anna Leonowens (voice)

1999
Alice in Wonderland

as Queen of Hearts

1998
Ted & Ralph

as Henrietta Blough-Pendleton

1998
The Scold's Bridle

as Dr. Sarah Blakeney

1998
St. Ives

as Susan Gilchrist

1998
The Scold's Bridle

as Dr Sarah Blakeney

1998
Merlin

as Lady of the Lake / Mab

1997
The Apostle

as Toosie

1997
Swann

as Sarah Maloney

1997
1996
The Evening Star

as Patsy Carpenter

1996
Saint-Ex

as Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

1996
Kansas City

as Carolyn Stilton

1994
Fatherland

as Charlie Maguire

1994
Tom & Viv

as Vivienne Haigh-Wood

1993
Century

as Clara

1993
1993
Jealousy

as Stella/Elsbeth

1993
Demonella

as Marie Antoinette

1993
1993
1992
Damage

as Ingrid Fleming

1992
1992
1991
Enchanted April

as Rose Arbuthnot

1991
Redemption

as Valerie Paris

1991
Performance

as Anna

1990
The Fool

as Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

1990
Die Kinder

as Sidonie Reiger

1990
Les Dogs

as Bride's Mother

1990
The Bachelor

as Friederike / Widow Sommer

1990
Die Kinder

as Sidonie Reiger

1989
1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol

as Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX

1988
Mountain Language

as Young Woman

1988
The Master Builder

as Hilde Wangel

1988
Sweet As You Are

as Julia Perry

1988
This Morning

as Self

1988
1987
Empire of the Sun

as Mrs. Victor

1987
Eat the Rich

as DHSS Blonde

1987
The Death of the Heart

as Daphne Heccomb

1987
After Pilkington

as Penny Newhouse

1986
1986
1986
Unnatural Causes

as Anne Forrest

1985
1985
The Innocent

as Mary Turner

1985
Dance with a Stranger

as Ruth Ellis

1985
A Woman of Substance

as Paula McGill Amory

1983
Natural World

as Narrator

1983
Blackadder

as Queen Elizabeth I

1983
Blackadder

as Nurse Mary

1983
Blackadder

as Amy Hardwood, the elusive shadow

1983
Blackadder

as Queen Elisabeth

1983
Blackadder

as Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX

1982
The Comic Strip Presents...

as Bride's Mother

1982
The Comic Strip Presents...

as Miss Straugheim

1982
The Comic Strip Presents...

as Marie Antoinette

1982
The Comic Strip Presents...

as Stella/Elsbeth

1979
Agony

as Gudrun

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

1953
The Oscars

as Self

Crew

2015
Orango rischio fatale

as Actor's Assistant