Actor
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Miranda Richardson
Born 1958-03-03
📍 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.
Filmography 138
The Yellow Tie
as Ioana Celibidache
2025
The Last Anniversary
as Rose
2025
Like Tears in Rain
as Self
2024
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
as Mrs Tweedy (voice)
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
as Self - Contributor
2023
The Magician's Elephant
as Madam LaVaughn (voice)
2023
The House
as Aunt Clarice (voice)
2022
Fate: The Winx Saga
as Rosalind
2021
Rams
as Kat
2020
Modern Love
as Jane
2019
Good Omens
as Shax
2019
Good Omens
as Madame Tracy
2019
Curfew
as Lou
2019
Girlfriends
as Sue
2018
Stronger
as Patty Bauman
2017
Churchill
as Clementine Churchill
2017
iBoy
as Nancy 'Nan' Harvey
2017
And Then There Were None
as Emily Brent
2015
Danger Mouse
as Queen of Weevils (voice)
2015
An Inspector Calls
as Sybil Birling
2015
Casanova
as Marquise d'Urfé
2015
Casanova
as Marquise d'Urfé
2015
Operation Orangutan
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Testament of Youth
as Miss Lorimer
2015
Mapp and Lucia
as Elizabeth Mapp
2014
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
as Mrs Blitherington
2014
Muppets Most Wanted
as Berliner at Window
2014
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
as Self / Mrs. Victor
2013
Hidden Universe
2013
Psychobitches
as Enid Blyton
2013
Belle
as Lady Ashford
2013
World Without End
as Mother Cecilia
2012
Parade's End
as Mrs. Wannop
2012
Dead Boss
as Jo
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Rita Skeeter
2010
Made in Dagenham
as Barbara Castle
2010
Rubicon
as Katherine Rhumor
2010
Turtle: The Incredible Journey
as Narrator (Voice)
2009
Spinning Into Butter
as Dean Catherine Kenney
2009
The Young Victoria
as Duchess of Kent
2009
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
as Self
2008
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
as Self
2008
Southland Tales
as Nana Mae Frost
2007
Fred Claus
as Annette Claus
2007
Puffball
as Mabs Tucker
2007
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
2007
Provoked: A True Story
as Veronica Scott
2007
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
Paris Je T'aime
as La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)
2006
Merlin's Apprentice
as Lady of the Lake
2006
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Rita Skeeter
2005
Gideon's Daughter
as Stella
2005
Final Chance to Save
as Herself
2005
Wah-Wah
as Lauren Compton
2005
The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill
as Corky (British dub voice)
2005
The Phantom of the Opera
as Madame Giry
2004
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
as Eva Braun
2004
The Prince & Me
as Queen Rosalind
2004
Falling Angels
as Mary Field
2003
The Rage in Placid Lake
as Sylvia Lake
2003
The Actors
as Mrs. Magnani
2003
The Lost Prince
as Queen Mary
2003
The Hours
as Vanessa Bell
2002
Spider
as Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg
2002
V Graham Norton
as Self
2002
Snow White
as Elspeth
2001
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
as Self
2001
Get Carter
as Gloria Carter
2000
Chicken Run
as Mrs. Tweedy (voice)
2000
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
as Self
2000
The Miracle Maker
as Mary Magdalene (voice)
2000
Sleepy Hollow
as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
1999
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
as Miss Fowl
1999
The Big Brass Ring
as Dinah Pellarin
1999
Blackadder: Back & Forth
as Queenie
1999
The King and I
as Anna Leonowens (voice)
1999
Alice in Wonderland
as Queen of Hearts
1999
Ted & Ralph
as Henrietta Blough-Pendleton
1998
Merlin
as Lady of the Lake / Mab
1998
The Scold's Bridle
as Dr. Sarah Blakeney
1998
The Scold's Bridle
as Dr Sarah Blakeney
1998
St. Ives
as Susan Gilchrist
1998
The Apostle
as Toosie
1997
A Dance to the Music of Time
as Pamela Flitton
1997
The Designated Mourner
as Judy
1997
Swann
as Sarah Maloney
1997
The Evening Star
as Patsy Carpenter
1996
Saint-Ex
as Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
1996
Kansas City
as Carolyn Stilton
1996
The Night and the Moment
as Julie
1995
Fatherland
as Charlie Maguire
1994
The Line, the Cross & the Curve
as Mysterious Woman
1994
Tom & Viv
as Vivienne Haigh-Wood
1994
Century
as Clara
1993
Shooting Stars
as Self
1993
Jealousy
as Stella/Elsbeth
1993
Demonella
as Marie Antoinette
1993
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
as Miss Straugheim
1993
Damage
as Ingrid Fleming
1992
Absolutely Fabulous
as Bettina
1992
The Crying Game
as Jude
1992
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
as Sandra
1992
Enchanted April
as Rose Arbuthnot
1991
Old Times
1991
Performance
as Anna
1991
Redemption
as Valerie Paris
1991
Die Kinder
as Sidonie Reiger
1990
Les Dogs
as Bride's Mother
1990
The Bachelor
as Friederike / Widow Sommer
1990
Twisted Obsession
as Marilyn
1989
Communicators From Hell
1989
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX
1988
Mountain Language
as Young Woman
1988
This Morning
as Self
1988
The Master Builder
as Hilde Wangel
1988
The Storyteller
as Witch
1988
Sweet as You Are
as Julia Perry
1988
Empire of the Sun
as Mrs. Victor
1987
Eat the Rich
as DHSS Blonde
1987
The Death of the Heart
as Daphne Heccomb
1987
After Pilkington
as Penny Newhouse
1987
Lost Property
as Anne
1986
The Demon Lover
as Gina
1986
Transmutations
as Oriel
1985
The Innocent
as Mary Turner
1985
Dance with a Stranger
as Ruth Ellis
1985
A Woman of Substance
as Paula McGill Amory
1985
Natural World
as Narrator
1983
Blackadder
as Nurse Mary
1983
Blackadder
as Queen Elizabeth I
1983
Blackadder
as Amy Hardwood, the elusive shadow
1983
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Bride's Mother
1982
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
The Oscars
as Self
1953
The Duchess and I
Dinner with Audrey
as Ella Van Heemstra