Miranda Richardson
Born: 1958-03-03 in Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2025
- The Last Anniversary as Rose
- The Yellow Tie as Ioana Celibidache
2024
- Like Tears in Rain as Self
2023
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget as Mrs Tweedy (voice)
- The Magician's Elephant as Madam LaVaughn (voice)
- Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self - Contributor
2022
- The House as Aunt Clarice (voice)
2021
- Fate: The Winx Saga as Rosalind
2020
- Rams as Kat
2019
- Good Omens as Shax
- Modern Love as Jane
- Curfew as Lou
2018
- Girlfriends as Sue
2015
- And Then There Were None as Emily Brent
- Danger Mouse as Queen of Weevils (voice)
- Testament of Youth as Miss Lorimer
- Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey as Narrator (voice)
- An Inspector Calls as Sybil Birling
- Casanova as Marquise d'Urfé
- Casanova as Marquise d'Urfé
- Operation Orangutan as Narrator (voice)
- Orango rischio fatale ... (Actor's Assistant)
2014
- Muppets Most Wanted as Berliner at Window
- Mapp and Lucia as Elizabeth Mapp
- The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm as Mrs Blitherington
2013
- Psychobitches as Enid Blyton
- Belle as Lady Ashford
- Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips as Self / Mrs. Victor
- Hidden Universe
2012
- World Without End as Mother Cecilia
- Parade's End as Mrs. Wannop
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
- Dead Boss as Jo
2010
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as Rita Skeeter
- Rubicon as Katherine Rhumor
- Made in Dagenham as Barbara Castle
2009
- The Young Victoria as Duchess of Kent
- Spinning Into Butter as Dean Catherine Kenney
- Turtle: The Incredible Journey as Narrator (Voice)
2008
2007
- Fred Claus as Annette Claus
- Southland Tales as Nana Mae Frost
- The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
- Puffball as Mabs Tucker
- Provoked: A True Story as Veronica Scott
2006
- The One Show as Self - Guest
- Paris Je T'aime as La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)
- Merlin's Apprentice as Lady of the Lake
2005
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Rita Skeeter
- The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill as Corky (British dub voice)
- Wah-Wah as Lauren Compton
- Gideon's Daughter as Stella
- The Funny Blokes of British Comedy as Queenie (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Final Chance to Save as Herself
- Comic Aid
2004
- The Phantom of the Opera as Madame Giry
- The Prince & Me as Queen Rosalind
- Churchill: The Hollywood Years as Eva Braun
2003
- The Lost Prince as Queen Mary
- The Actors as Mrs. Magnani
- The Rage in Placid Lake as Sylvia Lake
- Falling Angels as Mary Field
2002
- V Graham Norton as Self
- The Hours as Vanessa Bell
- Spider as Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg
2001
- Snow White as Elspeth
- Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making as Self
2000
- Chicken Run as Mrs. Tweedy (voice)
- Get Carter as Gloria Carter
- The Miracle Maker as Mary Magdalene (voice)
- Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend as Self
1999
- Sleepy Hollow as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
- Alice in Wonderland as Queen of Hearts
- The King and I as Anna Leonowens (voice)
- Blackadder: Back & Forth as Queenie
- The Big Brass Ring as Dinah Pellarin
- Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang as Miss Fowl
1998
- Merlin as Lady of the Lake / Mab
- The Scold's Bridle as Dr Sarah Blakeney
- St. Ives as Susan Gilchrist
- Ted & Ralph as Henrietta Blough-Pendleton
- The Scold's Bridle as Dr. Sarah Blakeney
1997
- A Dance to the Music of Time as Pamela Flitton
- The Apostle as Toosie
- Swann as Sarah Maloney
- The Designated Mourner as Judy
1996
- The Evening Star as Patsy Carpenter
- Kansas City as Carolyn Stilton
- Saint-Ex as Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
1995
- The Night and the Moment as Julie
1994
- Fatherland as Charlie Maguire
- Tom & Viv as Vivienne Haigh-Wood
- The Line, the Cross & the Curve as Mysterious Woman
1993
- Shooting Stars as Self
- Century as Clara
- Space Virgins from Planet Sex as Miss Straugheim
- Demonella as Marie Antoinette
- Jealousy as Stella/Elsbeth
1992
- Damage as Ingrid Fleming
- Absolutely Fabulous as Bettina
- The Crying Game as Jude
- Mr. Wakefield's Crusade as Sandra
1991
- Performance as Anna
- Enchanted April as Rose Arbuthnot
- Redemption as Valerie Paris
- Old Times
- Broken Skin
1990
- Die Kinder as Sidonie Reiger
- The Fool as Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
- The Bachelor as Friederike / Widow Sommer
- Les Dogs as Bride's Mother
1989
- Twisted Obsession as Marilyn
- Communicators From Hell
- Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage as Early Bird
1988
- The Storyteller as Witch
- This Morning as Self
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX
- Sweet as You Are as Julia Perry
- The Master Builder as Hilde Wangel
- Mountain Language as Young Woman
1987
- Empire of the Sun as Mrs. Victor
- Eat the Rich as DHSS Blonde
- After Pilkington as Penny Newhouse
- The Death of the Heart as Daphne Heccomb
1986
- Unnatural Causes as Anne Forrest
- The Demon Lover as Gina
- Lost Property as Anne
1985
- A Woman of Substance as Paula McGill Amory
- Dance with a Stranger as Ruth Ellis
- Transmutations as Oriel
- The Innocent as Mary Turner
1983
- Blackadder as Nurse Mary
- Natural World as Narrator
1982
- The Comic Strip Presents... as Bride's Mother
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1953
- The Oscars as Self