Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 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.
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Miranda Richardson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Miranda Richardson |
| Also Know | Miranda Jane Richardson |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Southport, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | March 03, 1958 |
| Age(as in 2023) | 64 |
| Deathday |
Miranda Richardson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Snow White: The Fairest of Them All | Queen Elspeth | 2001-10-28 | Snow White’s mother dies during childbirth, leaving baby Snow and father John for dead on an icy field, who then receives a visit from one of Satan’s … |
| Enchanted April | Rose Arbuthnot | 1991-11-06 | Four English women, unhappy with their lives, rent an Italian villa on holiday…. |
| Dance with a Stranger | Ruth Ellis | 1985-03-01 | Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for Da… |
| Turtle: The Incredible Journey | Narrator (Voice) | 2009-10-01 | The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. B… |
| Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey | Narrator (voice) | 2015-02-13 | A look at the phenomenal success of novel, Fifty Shades of Grey…. |
| The Incredible Adventures Of Professor Branestawm | Mrs Blitherington | 2014-12-24 | Harry Hill stars in this comedy based on Norman Hunter’s books. The Professor has a fight on his hands when a councillor tries to run him out of town … |
| Falling Angels | Mary Field | 2003-09-08 | The wickedly funny story of three sisters’ coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family, set against the backdrop of the 60’s, free love, the Cold W… |
| The King and I | Anna Leonowens (voice) | 1999-03-19 | Animated version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about when the King of Siam meets a head strong English school mistress…. |
| Broken Skin | 1991-01-01 | … | |
| Operation Orangutan | Narrator (voice) | 2015-04-22 | A rehabilitation centre in western Kalimantan in Borneo aims to rescue and rehabilitate injured and orphaned orangutans for release back into the wild… |
| Get Carter | Gloria Carter | 2000-10-06 | Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother’s funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes… |
| Fatherland | Charlie Maguire | 1994-11-26 | Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany’s war crimes have so far been kept a secret. … |
| The Crying Game | Jude | 1992-09-02 | Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA… |
| Kansas City | Carolyn Stilton | 1996-08-16 | A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City…. |
| Spider | Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg | 2002-11-06 | A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a k… |
| Spinning Into Butter | Dean Catherine Kenney | 2007-01-01 | A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school’s dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race… |
| Puffball | Mabs Tucker | 2007-10-28 | Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house…. |
| Provoked: A True Story | Veronica Scott | 2007-04-06 | Provoked is the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman who moved to London after her marriage with Deepak Ahluwalia. Her husband seemed car… |
| Tom & Viv | Vivienne Haigh-Wood | 1994-04-15 | The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems a… |
| St. Ives | Susan Gilchrist | 1998-01-01 | In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He’s a swashbuckler, so the pris… |
| Gideon’s Daughter | Stella | 2005-10-21 | Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour’s election victory and Di… |
| Saint-Ex | Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry | 1996-11-17 | Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry…. |
| The Designated Mourner | Judy | 1997-05-23 | Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy’s father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story … |
| Twisted Obsession | Marilyn | 1989-09-05 | An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can’t stand. When he falls in love with the director’s cold and mani… |
| The Bachelor | Friederike / Widow Sommer | 1990-03-29 | In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry…. |
| The Scold’s Bridle | Dr. Sarah Blakeney | 1998-04-10 | Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold’s Bridle…. |
| After Pilkington | Penny Newhouse | 1987-01-25 | The quiet life of Oxford professor James Westgate is shattered when he is introduced to Penny, the wife of his crass new colleague…. |
| A Fox’s Tale | Anna Conda (voice) | 2008-04-17 | The film is about Little Vuk, the son of the legendary fox who proves its excellent mind and courage…. |
| The Line, the Cross & the Curve | Mysterious Woman | 1993-11-13 | A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious woma… |
| Churchill | Clementine Churchill | 2017-05-25 | A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day…. |
| Swann | Sarah Maloney | 1997-03-01 | Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure… |
| Mountain Language | Young Woman | 1988-12-11 | Harold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. ‘Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allowed to speak your language. Your language no longer… |
| Sweet As You Are | Julia Perry | 1988-01-24 | A college lecturer contracts HIV after having a brief affair with one of his students. The news threatens his marriage and family life…. |
| Empire of the Sun | Mrs. Victor | 1987-12-09 | Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured w… |
| Sleepy Hollow | Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch | 1999-11-19 | New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. Locals… |
| The Apostle | Toosie | 1997-12-19 | After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio…. |
| Damage | Ingrid Fleming | 1992-12-02 | The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son’s lover…. |
| The Rage in Placid Lake | Sylvia Lake | 2003-05-17 | Placid Lake has always been different. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success…. |
| The Big Brass Ring | Dinah Pellarin | 1999-04-20 | Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past… |
| Made in Dagenham | Barbara Castle | 2010-09-11 | A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination…. |
| The Night and the Moment | Julie | 1995-07-05 | The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts… |
| Old Times | 1991-10-26 | The scene is a fashionably remodeled farmhouse in the countryside somewhere beyond London, where a prosperous and urbane couple are entertaining the w… | |
| Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang | Miss Fowl | 1999-10-08 | Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang is about a young boy who strives to be heard. He is nicknamed “Two-Two” for having to say things twice to be heard… |
| Century | Clara | 1993-12-31 | Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science…. |
| Hidden Universe | 2013-06-29 | An extraordinary journey deep into space offering fresh insight into the origins and evolution of the universe…. | |
| Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage | Early Bird | 1989-12-27 | Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families t… |
| The Master Builder | Hilde Wangel | 1988-05-15 | Ibsen’s play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he’s afraid of the being surpa… |
| Stronger | Patty Bauman | 2017-09-22 | A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma…. |
| Rams | Kat | 2020-10-15 | In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les’ prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal ill… |
| Blackadder’s Christmas Carol | Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX | 1988-12-23 | After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways…. |
| Merlin’s Apprentice | Herrin vom See | 2006-03-07 | The great sorcerer Merlin has returned to Camelot, a kingdom now vulnerable to ill fates and war since the theft of the Holy Grail, its greatest gift … |
| The Prince & Me | Queen Rosalind | 2004-03-28 | A fairy tale love-story about pre-med student Paige who falls in love with a Danish Prince “Eddie” who refused to follow the traditions of his parents… |
| Fred Claus | Annette Claus | 2007-11-03 | Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes over… |
| The Evening Star | Patsy Carpenter | 1996-12-25 | Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has on… |
| Alice in Wonderland | Queen of Hearts | 1999-02-28 | Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy W… |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Madame Giry | 2004-12-08 | Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure c… |
| The Young Victoria | Duchess of Kent | 2009-03-04 | As the only legitimate heir of England’s King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria’s mot… |
| iBoy | Nancy ‘Nan’ Harvey | 2017-01-27 | After an accident, Tom wakes from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have been embedded in his head, and worse, that returning to no… |
| Redemption | Valerie Paris | 1991-07-03 | After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?… |
| Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga | 2008-10-09 | To mark the 25th anniversary since the first transmission of Blackadder in 1983, the iconic cast of the much-loved sitcom appear together in a documen… | |
| Parade’s End | Mrs. Wannop | 2012-08-24 | In the years before the First World War, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Anglican Christopher Tietjens, second s… |
| The Magician’s Elephant | (voice) | 2023-03-10 | Peter is searching for his long-lost sister when he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square. His one one question is: is his sister s… |
| Les Dogs | Bride’s Mother | 1990-08-03 | Les Dogs are the band playing in a large marquee to celebrate the wedding of Geoffrey and Angela. During the reception, the fathers of the groom and b… |
| The Hours | Vanessa Bell | 2002-12-27 | “The Hours” is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by th… |
| The Actors | Mrs. Magnani | 2003-03-16 | During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O’Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his charac… |
| Wah-Wah | Lauren Compton | 2005-08-17 | Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, throu… |
| An Inspector Calls | Sybil Birling | 2015-09-13 | Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide…. |
| Mr. Wakefield’s Crusade | Sandra | 1992-04-22 | Darkly comic murder mystery adapted from Bernice Rubens ‘s Booker Prize-winning bestseller. Luke Wakefield is not so much a knight in shining armour … |
| Space Virgins from Planet Sex | Miss Straugheim | 1993-04-29 | A craft full of Space Rats,glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex,arrive on Earth desperate to find men with whom they can procreate in orde… |
| Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips | 2013-09-28 | A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie’s fra… | |
| Chicken Run | Mrs. Tweedy (voice) | 2000-06-21 | Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the British chicken farm where they are held, Ginger the chicken along with the … |
| Belle | Lady Ashford | 2013-05-01 | BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic … |
| Blackadder: Back & Forth | Queenie | 1999-03-29 | What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and h… |
| Churchill: The Hollywood Years | Eva Braun | 2004-12-03 | A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I… |
| Casanova | Marquise d’Urfé | 2015-08-01 | Exiled from his beloved Venice, Giacomo Casanova flees to Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment in hopes of putting his reputation as a playboy behin… |
| Ted & Ralph | Henrietta Blough-Pendleton | 1998-12-26 | One-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series ‘The Fast Show’. Ralph Mayhew (Charlie Higson) lives alone in a faded s… |
| Baldrick’s Video Diary | herself | 2001-10-15 | An intimate behind the scenes short film while shooting the Black Adder special Back and Forth…. |
| The House | Aunt Clarice (voice) | 2022-01-14 | Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy… |
| The Lost Prince | Queen Mary | 2004-10-17 | An acclaimed British television drama about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain’s King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the a… |
| Testament of Youth | Miss Lorimer | 2014-10-14 | Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classi… |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Rita Skeeter | 2005-11-16 | When Harry Potter’s name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the T… |
| The Innocent | Mary Turner | 1985-03-18 | This densely-packed film is based on a book by Tom Hart about the struggles of a young Yorkshire boy trying to come to grips with squabbling parents, … |
| The Miracle Maker | Mary Magdalene | 2000-03-31 | A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spr… |
| Comic Aid | 2005-03-02 | Shot live at the one off Comic Aid benefit gig at London’s Carling Apollo – which sold out in just three and a half minutes of tickets being put o… | |
| The Death of the Heart | Daphne Heccomb | 1987-05-03 | A young orphan girl, Portia, goes to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle. As she is groomed to become a lady, she is confused by the young man who… |
| Blackadder’s Most Cunning Moments | Self | 2008-10-16 | A countdown of the top 40 “Blackadder” moments chosen by cast and crew members, celebrity fans and 15 genuine Blackadders…. |
| Underworld | Oriel | 1985-11-29 | When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating … |
| Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend | Self | 2000-05-23 | A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow…. |
| Southland Tales | Nana Mae Frost | 2007-11-14 | Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santar… |
| Eat the Rich | DHSS Blonde | 1987-06-01 | Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class… |
| Muppets Most Wanted | Berliner at Window | 2014-03-20 | While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his das… |
| Paris Je T’aime | La femme au trench rouge (Bastille) | 2006-06-21 | Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,… |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | Rita Skeeter | 2010-10-06 | Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort’s bid for … |
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| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Orango rischio fatale | Actor’s Assistant | 2015-01-01 | … |
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