Miranda Richardson
Known For
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. 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.
Most Known For
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
The One Show
as Self - Guest
Blackadder
as Nurse Mary
Blackadder
as Queen Elizabeth I
Blackadder
as Amy Hardwood, the elusive shadow
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Rita Skeeter
Absolutely Fabulous
as Bettina
The Oscars
as Self
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Rita Skeeter
Natural World
as Narrator
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Bride's Mother
Good Omens
as Shax
Good Omens
as Madame Tracy
Fate: The Winx Saga
as Rosalind
Belle
as Lady Ashford
V Graham Norton
as Self
Modern Love
as Jane
Sleepy Hollow
as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
Performance
as Anna
And Then There Were None
as Emily Brent