
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
- 2024 · Like Tears in Rain as Self
- 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
- 2019 · Curfew as Lou
- 2017 · Stronger as Patty Bauman
- 2017 · Churchill as Clementine Churchill
- 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
- 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
- 2013 · Belle as Lady Ashford
- 2012 · World Without End as Mother Cecilia
- 2012 · Parade's End as Mrs. Wannop
- 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 · Puffball as Mabs Tucker
- 2007 · Provoked: A True Story as Veronica Scott
- 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 · Gideon's Daughter as Stella
- 2005 · Final Chance to Save as Herself
- 2004 · The Phantom of the Opera as Madame Giry
- 2004 · Churchill: The Hollywood Years as Eva Braun
- 2004 · The Prince & Me as Queen Rosalind
- 2003 · Falling Angels as Mary Field
- 2003 · The Rage in Placid Lake as Sylvia Lake
- 2003 · The Actors as Mrs. Magnani
- 2003 · The Lost Prince as Queen Mary
- 2002 · The Hours as Vanessa Bell
- 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 · The Miracle Maker as Mary Magdalene (voice)
- 1999 · Sleepy Hollow as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
- 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)
- 1999 · Alice in Wonderland as Queen of Hearts
- 1998 · Ted & Ralph as Henrietta Blough-Pendleton
- 1998 · Merlin as Lady of the Lake / Mab
- 1998 · The Scold's Bridle as Dr. Sarah Blakeney
- 1998 · St. Ives as Susan Gilchrist
- 1997 · A Dance to the Music of Time as Pamela Flitton
- 1996 · The Evening Star as Patsy Carpenter
- 1993 · Century as Clara
- 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
- 1991 · Redemption as Valerie Paris
- 1990 · The Fool as Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
- 1988 · Mountain Language as Young Woman
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1988 · The Storyteller as Witch
- 1988 · Sweet as You Are as Julia Perry
- 1987 · Empire of the Sun as Mrs. Victor
- 1987 · After Pilkington as Penny Newhouse
- 1986 · Unnatural Causes as Anne Forrest
- 1986 · The Demon Lover as Gina
- 1985 · Transmutations as Oriel
- 1985 · The Innocent as Mary Turner
- 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
- 1979 · Agony as Gudrun
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · The Yellow Tie as Ioana Celibidache
- 2002 · Spider as Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg
- 2000 · Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend as Self
- 1997 · The Designated Mourner as Judy
- 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 · Jealousy as Stella/Elsbeth
- 1990 · Les Dogs as Bride's Mother
- 1990 · The Bachelor as Friederike / Widow Sommer
- 1989 · Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage as Early Bird
- 1989 · Twisted Obsession as Marilyn
- 1987 · The Death of the Heart as Daphne Heccomb
- 1985 · Dance with a Stranger as Ruth Ellis
- 1985 · A Woman of Substance as Paula McGill Amory
- 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
- 2010 · Made in Dagenham as Barbara Castle
- 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 · 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
- 1998 · The Scold's Bridle as Dr Sarah Blakeney
- 1997 · The Apostle as Toosie
- 1997 · Swann as Sarah Maloney
- 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
- 1987 · Eat the Rich as DHSS Blonde
- 1986 · Lost Property as Anne