
Miranda Richardson
0 FOLLOWERS • 60 CREDITS • MAR 3, 1958 • 67
Biography
Miranda Jane Richardson 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.
Known For

Good Omens

Modern Love

The One Show

Performance

Fate: The Winx Saga

Saturday Night Live

Absolutely Fabulous

Dead Boss

The Storyteller

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Muppets Most Wanted

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The Miracle Maker

Merlin

Testament of Youth

World Without End

Demonella

And Then There Were None

Rubicon

Curfew

Casanova

The Magician's Elephant

Ted & Ralph

Casanova

Blackadder: Back & Forth

Chicken Run

Belle

The Hours

An Inspector Calls

Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

Redemption

Jealousy

Blackadder

The Oscars

The Young Victoria

The Evening Star

Fred Claus

iBoy

The Prince & Me

The Phantom of the Opera

Les Dogs

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

The Master Builder

Sleepy Hollow

Century

Old Times

Sweet As You Are

Mountain Language

The Designated Mourner

After Pilkington

Gideon's Daughter

Spider

The Crying Game

The Scold's Bridle

Fatherland

The Last Anniversary

Mapp and Lucia

Enchanted April

Merlin's Apprentice
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