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