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 Yellow Tie as Ioana Celibidache
- 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
- 2015 · Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey as Narrator (voice)
- 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
- 2010 · Rubicon as Katherine Rhumor
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2007 · Spinning Into Butter as Dean Catherine Kenney
- 2006 · Paris Je T'aime as La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)
- 2004 · Churchill: The Hollywood Years as Eva Braun
- 2003 · Falling Angels as Mary Field
- 2000 · Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend as Self
- 2000 · The Miracle Maker as Mary Magdalene (voice)
- 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
- 1998 · The Scold's Bridle as Dr. Sarah Blakeney
- 1997 · A Dance to the Music of Time as Pamela Flitton
- 1997 · The Designated Mourner as Judy
- 1997 · Swann as Sarah Maloney
- 1996 · The Evening Star as Patsy Carpenter
- 1995 · The Night and the Moment as Julie
- 1993 · Demonella as Marie Antoinette
- 1989 · Twisted Obsession as Marilyn
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX
- 1988 · Sweet as You Are as Julia Perry
- 1987 · Empire of the Sun as Mrs. Victor
- 1987 · Eat the Rich as DHSS Blonde
- 1987 · The Death of the Heart as Daphne Heccomb
- 1986 · The Demon Lover as Gina
- 1985 · The Innocent as Mary Turner
- 1985 · A Woman of Substance as Paula McGill Amory
- Future · The Bitter End as
- 2018 · Girlfriends as Sue
- 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 · Casanova as Marquise d'Urfé
- 2015 · Casanova as Marquise d'Urfé
- 2015 · Operation Orangutan as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · Testament of Youth as Miss Lorimer
- 2014 · Mapp and Lucia as Elizabeth Mapp
- 2014 · The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm as Mrs Blitherington
- 2014 · Muppets Most Wanted as Berliner at Window
- 2013 · Hidden Universe as