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