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