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

2017

iBoy as Nancy 'Nan' Harvey
Stronger as Patty Bauman
Churchill as Clementine Churchill

2015

And Then There Were None as Emily Brent
An Inspector Calls as Sybil Birling
Testament of Youth as Miss Lorimer
Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey as Narrator (voice)
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

Belle as Lady Ashford
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips as Self / Mrs. Victor
Hidden Universe

2012

World Without End as Mother Cecilia
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
Parade's End as Mrs. Wannop
Dead Boss as Jo

2007

Fred Claus as Annette Claus
Puffball as Mabs Tucker
Southland Tales as Nana Mae Frost
Provoked: A True Story as Veronica Scott
Spinning Into Butter as Dean Catherine Kenney
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle

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
Gideon's Daughter as Stella
Wah-Wah as Lauren Compton
Final Chance to Save as Herself
The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill as Corky (British dub voice)
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 Actors as Mrs. Magnani
The Rage in Placid Lake as Sylvia Lake
Falling Angels as Mary Field
The Lost Prince as Queen Mary

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)
The Big Brass Ring as Dinah Pellarin
Blackadder: Back & Forth as Queenie
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang as Miss Fowl

1998

Ted & Ralph as Henrietta Blough-Pendleton
Merlin as Lady of the Lake / Mab
The Scold's Bridle as Dr. Sarah Blakeney
The Scold's Bridle as Dr Sarah Blakeney
St. Ives as Susan Gilchrist

1997

The Apostle as Toosie
Swann as Sarah Maloney
A Dance to the Music of Time as Pamela Flitton
The Designated Mourner as Judy

1996

Kansas City as Carolyn Stilton
Saint-Ex as Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
The Evening Star as Patsy Carpenter

1995

The Night and the Moment as Julie

1994

Fatherland as Charlie Maguire
Tom & Viv as Vivienne Haigh-Wood

1993

Jealousy as Stella/Elsbeth
Shooting Stars as Self
Century as Clara
Demonella as Marie Antoinette
The Line, the Cross & the Curve as Mysterious Woman
Space Virgins from Planet Sex as Miss Straugheim

1992

Absolutely Fabulous as Bettina
Damage as Ingrid Fleming
The Crying Game as Jude
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade as Sandra

1991

Enchanted April as Rose Arbuthnot
Performance as Anna
Redemption as Valerie Paris
Broken Skin
Old Times

1990

Les Dogs as Bride's Mother
The Fool as Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
The Bachelor as Friederike / Widow Sommer
Die Kinder as Sidonie Reiger

1989

Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage as Early Bird
Twisted Obsession as Marilyn
Communicators From Hell

1988

The Storyteller as Witch
Mountain Language as Young Woman
Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX
Sweet as You Are as Julia Perry
This Morning as Self
The Master Builder as Hilde Wangel

1987

After Pilkington as Penny Newhouse
Empire of the Sun as Mrs. Victor
Eat the Rich as DHSS Blonde
The Death of the Heart as Daphne Heccomb

1986

The Demon Lover as Gina
Unnatural Causes as Anne Forrest
Lost Property as Anne

1985

Transmutations as Oriel
The Innocent as Mary Turner
Dance with a Stranger as Ruth Ellis
A Woman of Substance as Paula McGill Amory

1983

Natural World as Narrator
Blackadder as Queen Elizabeth I

1982

The Comic Strip Presents... as Bride's Mother

1979

Agony as Gudrun

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1953

The Oscars as Self