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