Miranda Richardson
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · The Last Anniversary as Rose
- 2023 · 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)
- 2022 · The House as Aunt Clarice (voice)
- 2021 · Fate: The Winx Saga as Rosalind
- 2020 · Rams as Kat
- 2019 · Modern Love as Jane
- 2019 · Good Omens as Shax
- 2019 · Good Omens as Madame Tracy
- 2017 · Stronger as Patty Bauman
- 2017 · iBoy as Nancy 'Nan' Harvey
- 2015 · And Then There Were None as Emily Brent
- 2015 · Danger Mouse as Queen of Weevils (voice)
- 2014 · Muppets Most Wanted as Berliner at Window
- 2013 · Belle as Lady Ashford
- 2012 · World Without End as Mother Cecilia
- 2012 · Parade's End as Mrs. Wannop
- 2012 · Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- 2010 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Rita Skeeter
- 2010 · Made in Dagenham as Barbara Castle
- 2010 · Rubicon as Katherine Rhumor
- 2009 · Turtle: The Incredible Journey as Narrator (Voice)
- 2009 · The Young Victoria as Duchess of Kent
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2007 · Southland Tales as Nana Mae Frost
- 2007 · Fred Claus as Annette Claus
- 2007 · Provoked: A True Story as Veronica Scott
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2005 · Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Rita Skeeter
- 2005 · Gideon's Daughter as Stella
- 2004 · The Phantom of the Opera as Madame Giry
- 2004 · Churchill: The Hollywood Years as Eva Braun
- 2004 · The Prince & Me as Queen Rosalind
- 2003 · The Lost Prince as Queen Mary
- 2002 · The Hours as Vanessa Bell
- 2002 · V Graham Norton as Self
- 2000 · Get Carter as Gloria Carter
- 2000 · Chicken Run as Mrs. Tweedy (voice)
- 1999 · Sleepy Hollow as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
- 1999 · The Big Brass Ring as Dinah Pellarin
- 1999 · Alice in Wonderland as Queen of Hearts
- 1998 · Merlin as Lady of the Lake / Mab
- 1997 · A Dance to the Music of Time as Pamela Flitton
- 1997 · The Designated Mourner as Judy
- 1996 · Saint-Ex as Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
- 1994 · Fatherland as Charlie Maguire
- 1993 · Century as Clara
- 1993 · Shooting Stars as Self
- 1992 · Damage as Ingrid Fleming
- 1992 · Absolutely Fabulous as Bettina
- 1992 · The Crying Game as Jude
- 1991 · Performance as Anna
- 1990 · The Fool as Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
- 1990 · Les Dogs as Bride's Mother
- 1989 · Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage as Early Bird
- 1988 · The Storyteller as Witch
- 1988 · Sweet as You Are as Julia Perry
- 1987 · Empire of the Sun as Mrs. Victor
- 1987 · Eat the Rich as DHSS Blonde
- 1986 · Lost Property as Anne
- 1985 · The Innocent as Mary Turner
- 1985 · Dance with a Stranger as Ruth Ellis
- 1985 · A Woman of Substance as Paula McGill Amory
- 1983 · Natural World as Narrator
- 1983 · Blackadder as Queen Elizabeth I
- 1983 · Blackadder as Nurse Mary
- 1983 · Blackadder as Amy Hardwood, the elusive shadow
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Bride's Mother
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · The Bitter End as
- 2025 · The Yellow Tie as Ioana Celibidache
- 2024 · Like Tears in Rain as Self
- 2019 · Curfew as Lou
- 2018 · Girlfriends as Sue
- 2017 · Churchill as Clementine Churchill
- 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
- 2014 · Mapp and Lucia as Elizabeth Mapp
- 2014 · The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm as Mrs Blitherington
- 2013 · Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips as Self / Mrs. Victor
- 2013 · Hidden Universe as
- 2012 · Dead Boss as Jo
- 2009 · Spinning Into Butter as Dean Catherine Kenney
- 2008 · Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga as Self
- 2007 · Puffball as Mabs Tucker
- 2007 · The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle as
- 2006 · Paris Je T'aime as La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)
- 2006 · Merlin's Apprentice as Lady of the Lake
- 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 · Comic Aid as
- 2003 · Falling Angels as Mary Field
- 2003 · The Rage in Placid Lake as Sylvia Lake
- 2003 · The Actors as Mrs. Magnani
- 2002 · Spider as Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg
- 2001 · Snow White as Elspeth
- 2001 · Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
- 2000 · Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend as Self
- 2000 · The Miracle Maker as Mary Magdalene (voice)
- 1999 · Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang as Miss Fowl
- 1999 · Blackadder: Back & Forth as Queenie
- 1999 · The King and I as Anna Leonowens (voice)
- 1998 · Ted & Ralph as Henrietta Blough-Pendleton
- 1998 · The Scold's Bridle as Dr Sarah Blakeney
- 1998 · The Scold's Bridle as Dr. Sarah Blakeney
- 1998 · St. Ives as Susan Gilchrist
- 1997 · The Apostle as Toosie
- 1997 · Swann as Sarah Maloney
- 1996 · The Evening Star as Patsy Carpenter
- 1996 · Kansas City as Carolyn Stilton
- 1995 · The Night and the Moment as Julie
- 1994 · The Line, the Cross & the Curve as Mysterious Woman
- 1994 · Tom & Viv as Vivienne Haigh-Wood
- 1993 · Jealousy as Stella/Elsbeth
- 1993 · Demonella as Marie Antoinette
- 1993 · Space Virgins from Planet Sex as Miss Straugheim
- 1992 · Mr. Wakefield's Crusade as Sandra
- 1991 · Enchanted April as Rose Arbuthnot
- 1991 · Old Times as
- 1991 · Redemption as Valerie Paris
- 1991 · Broken Skin as
- 1990 · Die Kinder as Sidonie Reiger
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX
- 1988 · Mountain Language as Young Woman
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1986 · Unnatural Causes as Anne Forrest
- 1985 · Transmutations as Oriel
- Future · The Queen of Fashion as Helen Delves Broughton
- 1990 · The Bachelor as Friederike / Widow Sommer
- 1989 · Twisted Obsession as Marilyn
- 1989 · Communicators From Hell as
- 1988 · The Master Builder as Hilde Wangel
- 1987 · The Death of the Heart as Daphne Heccomb
- 1987 · After Pilkington as Penny Newhouse
- 1986 · The Demon Lover as Gina
- 1979 · Agony as Gudrun