Dakota Blue Richards
Born: 1994-04-11 in Chelsea, London, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Dakota Blue Richards (born 11 April 1994) is an English actress. Ten thousand girls turned up for open auditions in Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter and Kendal for the role of Lyra Belacqua in the adaptation of 'His Dark Materials: Northern Lights' to the film 'The Golden Compass (2007)'. In June 2006, twelve-year-old Dakota, a Londoner schoolgirl, was awarded the part after the casting directors' took a shine to her in the Cambridge auditions. Her mother is an American anthropologist.
Filmography
2020
- What The Butler Saw as Geraldine
2019
- Beecham House as Margaret Osbourne
2016
- The Quiet Hour as Sarah
- ChickLit as Zoe
2014
- The Fold as Eloise Ashton
- Girl Power as Cass
2013
- Endeavour as WPC Shirley Trewlove
- Lightfields as Eve
2009
- The Secret of Moonacre as Maria Merryweather
- Five Miles Out as Cass
2008
- Dustbin Baby as April
2007
- Skins as Franky Fitzgerald
- The Golden Compass as Lyra Belacqua
2003
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
1952
- Today as Self