Miranda Otto
Miranda Otto (born December 16, 1967) is an Australian actress. The daughter of actors Lindsay and Barry Otto and the sister of actress Gracie Otto, she began acting at age eighteen, and has performed in a variety of independent and major studio films. Her first major film appearance was in the 1986 film Emma's War, in which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II. In 1996, director Shirley Barrett cast Otto as a shy waitress in the film Love Serenade. She starred in the 1997 films Doing Time for Patsy Cline and The Well, for which earned her third Australian Film Institute nomination. Her next project was the romantic comedy Dead Letter Office (1998). The film was Otto's first with her father, Barry, who makes a brief appearance. Later that year, she starred in the film In the Winter Dark, directed by James Bogle, for which she was nominated for her fourth Australian Film Institute Award. After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian films, she gained Hollywood's attention after appearing in supporting roles in The Thin Red Line (1998) and What Lies Beneath (2000). In 2001, she was cast as a naturalist in the comedy Human Nature and appeared in the BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now, as a strong-willed American Southerner. Her breakthrough role came in 2002, when she portrayed Éowyn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Her character was introduced in the trilogy's second film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in 2002 and appeared in the third film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the following year. Her performance earned her an Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Director Steven Spielberg, impressed by Otto's performance in The Lord of the Rings, called her to ask if she would play opposite Tom Cruise in the big-budget science fiction film War of the Worlds (2005). Otto, pregnant at the time, believed she would have to turn down the role, but the script was reworked to accommodate her. Her next project was playing the lead in the Australian film Danny Deckchair (2003). She then took on the Australian television miniseries Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story (2004). At the 2005 Logie Awards, Otto won Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for her role. In 2007, Otto starred as Cricket Stewart, the wife of a successful director, in the television miniseries The Starter Wife. She had a starring role in the 2008 American television series Cashmere Mafia, and Australian films such as In Her Skin and Blessed (2009). She starred opposite Stephanie Sigman and Anthony LaPaglia in the horror prequel Annabelle: Creation. She portrayed Zelda Spellman in Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2020). She made her theatrical debut in the 1986 production of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant for the Sydney Theatre Company.[28] Three more theatrical productions for the Sydney Theatre Company followed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2002, she returned to the stage playing Nora Helmer in A Doll's House opposite her future husband Peter O'Brien. Otto's performance earned her a 2003 Helpmann Award nomination and the MO Award for "Best Female Actor in a Play". Her next stage role was in the psychological thriller Boy Gets Girl (2005).
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim as Éowyn (voice)
- 2024 · Thou Shalt Not Steal as Maxine
- 2024 · Thou Shalt Not Steal as Maxine
- 2024 · Ladies in Black as Virginia Ambrose
- 2024 · Revealed: Otto By Otto as Self
- 2024 · My Freaky Family as Aneska Flood
- 2023 · At the Gates as Marianne Barris
- 2023 · Talk to Me as Sue
- 2023 · The Clearing as Adrienne Beaufort
- 2023 · Wellmania as
- 2023 · The Portable Door as Countess Judy
- 2023 · Koala Man as Mindy
- 2022 · True Colours as Isabelle Martin
- 2021 · Fires as Kath Simpson
- 2021 · The Moth Effect as Jenny
- 2021 · The Unusual Suspects as Sara
- 2019 · The Chaperone as Ruth St. Dennis
- 2017 · The Raid as Rebecca Ingram
- 2013 · Reaching for the Moon as Elizabeth Bishop
- 2012 · Mabo as Margaret White
- 2011 · Locke & Key as Nina Locke
- 2010 · South Solitary as Meredith Appleton
- 2009 · In Her Skin as Mrs. Barber
- 2009 · Schadenfreude as Waitress
- 2003 · The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision as Self
- 2003 · Danny Deckchair as Glenda Lake
- Future · A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' as Self
- 2020 · Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe as Self
- 2020 · Reunited Apart as Self
- 2020 · Downhill as Charlotte
- 2019 · The Silence as Kelly Andrews
- 2018 · Chilling Adventures of Sabrina as Zelda Spellman
- 2018 · Zoe as The Designer
- 2017 · Directing Annabelle: Creation as Herself
- 2017 · Annabelle: Creation as Esther Mullins
- 2017 · Dance Academy: The Movie as Madeline Moncur
- 2017 · 24: Legacy as Rebecca Ingram
- 2015 · The Daughter as Charlotte
- 2014 · The Homesman as Theoline Belknap
- 2014 · Rake as Maddy Deane
- 2014 · I, Frankenstein as Leonore
- 2013 · The Turning as Sherry
- 2012 · Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries as Lydia Andrews
- 2011 · Homeland as Allison Carr
- 2009 · Blessed as Bianca
- 2008 · Cashmere Mafia as Juliet Draper
- 2005 · War of the Worlds as Mary-Ann
- 2004 · Flight of the Phoenix as Kelly
- 2004 · Through My Eyes as Lindy Chamberlain
- 2004 · In My Father's Den as Penny Prior
- 2004 · The Three-Legged Fox as Ruth
- 2003 · The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Éowyn
- 2003 · Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories as Self
- 2002 · The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as Éowyn
- 2002 · Julie Walking Home as Julie Makowsky
- 2002 · Doctor Sleep as Clara Strother
- 2001 · The Way We Live Now as Mrs Hurtle
- 2001 · Human Nature as Gabrielle
- 2000 · What Lies Beneath as Mary Feur
- 2000 · Kin as Anna
- 1999 · The Jack Bull as Cora Redding
- 1998 · The Thin Red Line as Marty Bell
- 1998 · In the Winter Dark as Ronnie
- 1998 · Dead Letter Office as Alice Walsh
- 1997 · Doing Time for Patsy Cline as Patsy
- 1997 · True Love and Chaos as Mimi
- 1997 · The Well as Katherine
- 1996 · Love Serenade as Dimity Hurley
- 1995 · Sex Is a Four Letter Word as Viv
- 1993 · The Nostradamus Kid as Jennie O'Brien
- 1992 · The Last Days of Chez Nous as Annie
- 1992 · Daydream Believer as Nell Tiscowitz
- 1991 · Heroes II: The Return as Roma Page
- 1991 · Police Rescue as Amanda
- 1988 · The 13th Floor as Rebecca
- 1987 · Initiation as Stevie
- 1986 · Emma's War as Emma Grange
- 1986 · The Flying Doctors as Amy Brodie
- Future · The Pout-Pout Fish as