Miranda Richardson

Acting · Born 1958-03-03 in Southport, Lancashire, England, UK

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.…

Filmography

• The Hours as Vanessa Bell
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Rita Skeeter
• Empire of the Sun as Mrs. Victor
• Sleepy Hollow as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
• The Phantom of the Opera as Madame Giry
• The Young Victoria as Duchess of Kent
• The House as Aunt Clarice (voice)
• Belle as Lady Ashford
• Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget as Mrs Tweedy (voice)
• Testament of Youth as Miss Lorimer

TV

• The Storyteller as Witch
• Good Omens as Shax
• Blackadder as Nurse Mary
• Blackadder as Queen Elizabeth I
• Blackadder as Amy Hardwood, the elusive shadow
• Fate: The Winx Saga as Rosalind
• Good Omens as Madame Tracy
• This Morning as Self
• Shooting Stars as Self
• The One Show as Self - Guest