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Acting
April 11, 1994
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Dakota Blue Richards (born 11 April 1994) is an English actress. Ten thousand girls turned up for open auditions in Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter and Kendal for the role of Lyra Belacqua in the adaptation of 'His Dark Materials: Northern Lights' to the film 'The Golden Compass (2007)'. In June 2006, twelve-year-old Dakota, a Londoner schoolgirl, was awarded the part after the casting directors' took a shine to her in the Cambridge auditions. Her mother is an American anthropologist.

as Geraldine

as Margaret Osbourne

as Zoe

as Sarah

as Cass

as Eloise Ashton

as WPC Shirley Trewlove

as Eve

as Cass

as Maria Merryweather

as April

as Lyra Belacqua

as Franky Fitzgerald

as Francesca "Franky" Fitzgerald

as Self

as Self
as Gwen