Dakota Blue Richards
April 11, 1994 (30 years old) in Chelsea, London, England, UK
Dakota Blue Richards (born 11 April 1994) is an English actress. Ten thousand girls turned up for open auditions in Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter and Kendal for the role of Lyra Belacqua in the adaptation of 'His Dark Materials: Northern Lights' to the film 'The Golden Compass (2007)'. In June 2006, twelve-year-old Dakota, a Londoner schoolgirl, was awarded the part after the casting directors' took a shine to her in the Cambridge auditions. Her mother is an American anthropologist.
Known For
Credits
- 2020 · What The Butler Saw as Geraldine
- 2019 · Beecham House as Margaret Osbourne
- 2016 · ChickLit as Zoe
- 2016 · The Quiet Hour as Sarah
- 2014 · Girl Power as Cass
- 2014 · The Fold as Eloise Ashton
- 2013 · Endeavour as WPC Shirley Trewlove
- 2013 · Lightfields as Eve
- 2009 · Five Miles Out as Cass
- 2009 · The Secret of Moonacre as Maria Merryweather
- 2008 · Dustbin Baby as April
- 2007 · The Golden Compass as Lyra Belacqua
- 2007 · Skins as Franky Fitzgerald
- 2007 · Skins as Francesca "Franky" Fitzgerald
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 1952 · Today as Self
- Future · Each Coming Night as Gwen