Birth Day: 1958-03-03
Place of birth: 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.
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As Ioana Celibidache -
As Self -
As Self - Contributor -
As Mrs Tweedy (voice) -
As Madam LaVaughn (voice) -
As Aunt Clarice (voice) -
As Kat -
As Nancy 'Nan' Harvey -
As Clementine Churchill -
As Patty Bauman -
As Narrator (voice) -
As Sybil Birling -
As Miss Lorimer -
As Marquise d'Urfé -
As Narrator (voice) -
As Berliner at Window -
As Mrs Blitherington -
As Self / Mrs. Victor -
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As Lady Ashford -
As (archive footage) -
As Rita Skeeter -
As Barbara Castle -
As Dean Catherine Kenney -
As Narrator (Voice) -
As Duchess of Kent -
As Self -
As Self -
As Nana Mae Frost -
As Mabs Tucker -
As Veronica Scott -
As Annette Claus -
As La femme au trench rouge (Bastille) -
As Rita Skeeter -
As Stella -
As Queenie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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As Lauren Compton -
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As Madame Giry -
As Eva Braun -
As Queen Rosalind -
As Sylvia Lake -
As Mrs. Magnani -
As Mary Field -
As Vanessa Bell -
As Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg -
As Self -
As Elspeth -
As Mary Magdalene (voice) -
As Mrs. Tweedy (voice) -
As Self -
As Gloria Carter -
As Queen of Hearts -
As Dinah Pellarin -
As Anna Leonowens (voice) -
As Queenie -
As Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch -
As Miss Fowl -
As Dr. Sarah Blakeney
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As Henrietta Blough-Pendleton -
As Susan Gilchrist -
As Sarah Maloney -
As Judy -
As Toosie -
As Carolyn Stilton -
As Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry -
As Patsy Carpenter -
As Julie -
As Mysterious Woman -
As Charlie Maguire -
As Vivienne Haigh-Wood -
As Miss Straugheim -
As Clara -
As Stella/Elsbeth -
As Marie Antoinette -
As Ingrid Fleming -
As Sandra -
As Jude -
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As Rose Arbuthnot -
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As Valerie Paris -
As Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
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As Bride's Mother -
As Friederike / Widow Sommer -
As Marilyn -
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As Early Bird
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As Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX -
As Hilde Wangel -
As Young Woman -
As Julia Perry -
As DHSS Blonde -
As Penny Newhouse -
As Mrs. Victor -
As Daphne Heccomb -
As Anne -
As Gina -
As Ruth Ellis -
As Oriel -
As Mary Turner -
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As Helen Delves Broughton