Miranda Richardson
Acting
🎂 1958-03-03
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.
Cast credits(144)
Self - Host
1975
Self - Guest
2006
Rita Skeeter
2005
Rita Skeeter
2010
Shax
2019
Madame Tracy
2019
Narrator
1983
Nurse Mary
1983
Queen Elizabeth I
1983
Amy Hardwood, the elusive shadow
1983
Miss Straugheim
1982
Bride's Mother
1982
Marie Antoinette
1982
Stella/Elsbeth
1982
Self
1953
Anna
1991
Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
1999
Jane
2019
Self
2002
Rosalind
2021
Bettina
1992
Mrs. Tweedy (voice)
2000
Self
1993
Witch
1988
Mrs Tweedy (voice)
2023
Lady of the Lake / Mab
1998
Ingrid Fleming
1992
Madame Giry
2004
Mother Cecilia
2012
Rose
2025
Duchess of Kent
2009
Emily Brent
2015
2005
1989
Valerie Paris
1991
Annette Claus
2007
Mrs. Victor
1987
Gloria Carter
2000
Madam LaVaughn (voice)
2023
Self – Contributor
2023
La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)
2006
Sybil Birling
2015
Berliner at Window
2014
Queen of Hearts
1999
Queen Rosalind
2004
Aunt Clarice (voice)
2022
Jude
1992
Nana Mae Frost
2007
Lady Ashford
2013
Patsy Carpenter
1996
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
1996
Patty Bauman
2017
Clementine Churchill
2017
Mary Magdalene (voice)
2000
Mrs. Wannop
2012
Early Bird
1989
Nancy 'Nan' Harvey
2017
Vanessa Bell
2002
Pamela Flitton
1997
Queen Elspeth
2001
Katherine Rhumor
2010
Barbara Castle
2010
Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg
2002
Charlie Maguire
1994
Self
2000
Lady of the Lake
2006
(archive footage)
2012
Lou
2019
Mary Field
2003
Oriel
1985
Paula McGill Amory
1985
Ioana Celibidache
Toosie
1997
Self
2001
Anne
1986
Dinah Pellarin
1999
Queen Mary
2003
Susan Gilchrist
1998
Daphne Heccomb
1987
Clara
1993
Gudrun
1979
DHSS Blonde
1987
Miss Lorimer
2015
Henrietta Blough-Pendleton
1998
Sylvia Lake
2003
Eva Braun
2004
Anna Leonowens (voice)
1999
Julie
1995
Ruth Ellis
1985
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
1990
Dean Catherine Kenney
2007
Self / Mrs. Victor
2013
Elizabeth Mapp
2014
Kat
2020
Stella
2005
Vivienne Haigh-Wood
1994
Carolyn Stilton
1996
Veronica Scott
2007
Stella/Elsbeth
1993
Queenie
1999
Self
2008
Sue
2018
Marquise d'Urfé
2015
Anne Forrest
1986
Mabs Tucker
2007
Jo
2012
Self
2008
Rose Arbuthnot
1991
Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX
1988
Penny Newhouse
1987
Self
1988
Marquise d'Urfé
2015
Bride's Mother
1990
Lauren Compton
2005
Marie Antoinette
1993
2007
Marilyn
1989
Corky (British dub voice)
2005
Miss Fowl
1999
Dr. Sarah Blakeney
1998
Friederike / Widow Sommer
1990
Mrs. Magnani
2003
Gina
1986
Sidonie Reiger
1990
Herself
2005
Mary Turner
1985
Self
2024
Julia Perry
1988
Judy
1997
Young Woman
1988
Dr Sarah Blakeney
1998
Narrator (voice)
2015
Narrator (Voice)
2009
2013
Hilde Wangel
1988
Sarah Maloney
1997
Mysterious Woman
1993
1991
Miss Straugheim
1993
Mrs Blitherington
2014
Narrator (voice)
2015
Sandra
1992
1991
