Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1958-03-03 (Age: 68)
Place of Birth
Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
Miranda Richardson
Biography
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.
Filmography (101)
The Yellow Tie
2025
Like Tears in Rain
2024
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
The Magician's Elephant
2023
The House
2022
Rams
2020
Stronger
2017
Churchill
2017
iBoy
2017
An Inspector Calls
2015
Casanova
2015
Operation Orangutan
2015
Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
