
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 · An Inspector Calls as Sybil Birling
- 2015 · Testament of Youth as Miss Lorimer
- 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
- 2010 · Rubicon as Katherine Rhumor
- 2009 · The Young Victoria as Duchess of Kent
- 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
- 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 · Gideon's Daughter as Stella
- 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 · Ted & Ralph as Henrietta Blough-Pendleton
- 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 · Enchanted April as Rose Arbuthnot
- 1991 · Performance as Anna
- 1989 · Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage as Early Bird
- 1989 · Twisted Obsession as Marilyn
- 1988 · The Storyteller as Witch
- 1987 · Empire of the Sun as Mrs. Victor
- 1987 · The Death of the Heart as Daphne Heccomb
- 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
- 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
- 2017 · Churchill as Clementine Churchill
- 2014 · Mapp and Lucia as Elizabeth Mapp
- 2014 · Muppets Most Wanted as Berliner at Window
- 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
- 2007 · Puffball as Mabs Tucker
- 2007 · Spinning Into Butter as Dean Catherine Kenney
- 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 · Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang as Miss Fowl
- 1999 · The King and I as Anna Leonowens (voice)
- 1998 · The Scold's Bridle as Dr. Sarah Blakeney
- 1998 · St. Ives as Susan Gilchrist
- 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 · Redemption as Valerie Paris
- 1990 · The Fool as Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
- 1990 · Les Dogs as Bride's Mother
- 1990 · The Bachelor as Friederike / Widow Sommer
- 1988 · Mountain Language as Young Woman
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1988 · Sweet As You Are as Julia Perry
- 1987 · Eat the Rich as DHSS Blonde
- 1987 · After Pilkington as Penny Newhouse
- 1979 · Agony as Gudrun
- Future · The Bitter End as
- 2018 · Girlfriends as Sue
- 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)
- 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)
- 2005 · Comic Aid as
- 2001 · Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
- 1999 · Blackadder: Back & Forth as Queenie
- 1998 · The Scold's Bridle as Dr Sarah Blakeney
- 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 · Communicators From Hell as
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX
- 1988 · The Master Builder as Hilde Wangel
- 1986 · Lost Property as Anne
- 1986 · Unnatural Causes as Anne Forrest
- 1986 · The Demon Lover as Gina
- 1985 · The Innocent as Mary Turner
- 1985 · Dance with a Stranger as Ruth Ellis
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self