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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 3, 1958
Place of Birth
Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Miranda Jane Richardson
- میراندا ریچاردسون
Miranda Richardson
2.0 Popularity
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.
Known For
8.0
Ioana Celibidache
The Yellow Tie
2025
7.1
Rose
The Last Anniversary
2025
7.5
Self
Like Tears in Rain
2024
7.0
Mrs Tweedy (voice)
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023
7.5
Self - Contributor
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
6.8
Madam LaVaughn (voice)
The Magician's Elephant
2023
7.0
Aunt Clarice (voice)
The House
2022
8.0
Rosalind
Fate: The Winx Saga
2021
6.3
Kat
Rams
2020
7.3
Jane
Modern Love
2019
Credits
The Yellow Tie
as Ioana Celibidache
2025
8.0
The Last Anniversary
as Rose
2025
7.1
Like Tears in Rain
as Self
2024
7.5
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
as Mrs Tweedy (voice)
2023
7.0
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
as Self - Contributor
2023
7.5
The Magician's Elephant
as Madam LaVaughn (voice)
2023
6.8
The House
as Aunt Clarice (voice)
2022
7.0
Fate: The Winx Saga
as Rosalind
2021
8.0
Rams
as Kat
2020
6.3
Modern Love
as Jane
2019
7.3
Good Omens
as Shax
2019
8.0
Good Omens
as Madame Tracy
2019
8.0
Curfew
as Lou
2019
5.6
Girlfriends
as Sue
2018
6.2
Stronger
as Patty Bauman
2017
7.0
Churchill
as Clementine Churchill
2017
6.2
iBoy
as Nancy 'Nan' Harvey
2017
6.0
And Then There Were None
as Emily Brent
2015
7.6
An Inspector Calls
as Sybil Birling
2015
7.4
Casanova
as Marquise d'Urfé
2015
5.9
Casanova
as Marquise d'Urfé
2015
8.2
Operation Orangutan
as Narrator (voice)
2015
7.0
Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey
as Narrator (voice)
2015
5.8
Testament of Youth
as Miss Lorimer
2015
7.3
Mapp and Lucia
as Elizabeth Mapp
2014
6.3
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
as Mrs Blitherington
2014
4.5
Muppets Most Wanted
as Berliner at Window
2014
6.3
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
as Self / Mrs. Victor
2013
8.3
Hidden Universe
2013
6.8
Belle
as Lady Ashford
2013
7.1
World Without End
as Mother Cecilia
2012
6.8
Parade's End
as Mrs. Wannop
2012
6.5
Dead Boss
as Jo
2012
6.0
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
2012
7.6
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Rita Skeeter
2010
7.7
Made in Dagenham
as Barbara Castle
2010
6.7
Rubicon
as Katherine Rhumor
2010
7.6
Turtle: The Incredible Journey
as Narrator (Voice)
2009
6.6
The Young Victoria
as Duchess of Kent
2009
7.2
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
as Self
2008
4.5
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
as Self
2008
7.8
Southland Tales
as Nana Mae Frost
2007
5.2
Fred Claus
as Annette Claus
2007
5.9
Puffball
as Mabs Tucker
2007
3.4
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
2007
6.0
Provoked: A True Story
as Veronica Scott
2007
6.7
Spinning Into Butter
as Dean Catherine Kenney
2007
5.4
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.4
Paris Je T'aime
as La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)
2006
6.8
Merlin's Apprentice
as Lady of the Lake
2006
4.8
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Rita Skeeter
2005
7.8
Gideon's Daughter
as Stella
2005
6.2
Final Chance to Save
as Herself
2005
0.0
Wah-Wah
as Lauren Compton
2005
5.8
The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill
as Corky (British dub voice)
2005
0.0
🎬
Comic Aid
2005
5.0
The Phantom of the Opera
as Madame Giry
2004
7.3
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
as Eva Braun
2004
5.2
The Prince & Me
as Queen Rosalind
2004
6.2
Falling Angels
as Mary Field
2003
5.8
The Rage in Placid Lake
as Sylvia Lake
2003
6.4
The Actors
as Mrs. Magnani
2003
5.5
The Lost Prince
as Queen Mary
2003
7.1
The Hours
as Vanessa Bell
2002
7.3
Spider
as Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg
2002
6.6
V Graham Norton
as Self
2002
5.0
Snow White
as Elspeth
2001
5.9
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
as Self
2001
6.0
Get Carter
as Gloria Carter
2000
5.2
Chicken Run
as Mrs. Tweedy (voice)
2000
6.8
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
as Self
2000
7.1
The Miracle Maker
as Mary Magdalene (voice)
2000
6.1
Sleepy Hollow
as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
1999
7.2
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
as Miss Fowl
1999
3.6
The Big Brass Ring
as Dinah Pellarin
1999
4.2
Blackadder: Back & Forth
as Queenie
1999
7.0
The King and I
as Anna Leonowens (voice)
1999
5.4
Alice in Wonderland
as Queen of Hearts
1999
6.2
Ted & Ralph
as Henrietta Blough-Pendleton
1998
6.6
The Scold's Bridle
as Dr Sarah Blakeney
1998
0.0
Merlin
as Lady of the Lake / Mab
1998
6.9
🎬
The Scold's Bridle
as Dr. Sarah Blakeney
1998
6.2
St. Ives
as Susan Gilchrist
1998
5.4
The Apostle
as Toosie
1997
6.3
A Dance to the Music of Time
as Pamela Flitton
1997
4.3
The Designated Mourner
as Judy
1997
5.2
Swann
as Sarah Maloney
1997
2.5
The Evening Star
as Patsy Carpenter
1996
6.1
Saint-Ex
as Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
1996
2.3
Kansas City
as Carolyn Stilton
1996
6.1
The Night and the Moment
as Julie
1995
4.3
Fatherland
as Charlie Maguire
1994
6.2
The Line, the Cross & the Curve
as Mysterious Woman
1994
7.1
Tom & Viv
as Vivienne Haigh-Wood
1994
6.1
Century
as Clara
1993
4.9
Shooting Stars
as Self
1993
7.6
Jealousy
as Stella/Elsbeth
1993
0.0
Demonella
as Marie Antoinette
1993
0.0
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
as Miss Straugheim
1993
0.0
Damage
as Ingrid Fleming
1992
6.6
Absolutely Fabulous
as Bettina
1992
7.5
The Crying Game
as Jude
1992
6.8
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
as Sandra
1992
4.5
Enchanted April
as Rose Arbuthnot
1991
6.8
Old Times
1991
4.0
Performance
as Anna
1991
6.0
Redemption
as Valerie Paris
1991
0.0
🎬
Broken Skin
1991
0.0
🎬
The Fool
as Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
1990
7.0
Die Kinder
as Sidonie Reiger
1990
6.0
🎬
Les Dogs
as Bride's Mother
1990
0.0
The Bachelor
as Friederike / Widow Sommer
1990
0.0
🎬
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
as Early Bird
1989
4.4
Twisted Obsession
as Marilyn
1989
5.3
Communicators From Hell
1989
0.0
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX
1988
7.6
Mountain Language
as Young Woman
1988
4.0
This Morning
as Self
1988
5.2
The Storyteller
as Witch
1988
8.2
The Master Builder
as Hilde Wangel
1988
0.0
Sweet as You Are
as Julia Perry
1988
3.8
Empire of the Sun
as Mrs. Victor
1987
7.5
Eat the Rich
as DHSS Blonde
1987
6.2
The Death of the Heart
as Daphne Heccomb
1987
8.0
After Pilkington
as Penny Newhouse
1987
6.8
Lost Property
as Anne
1986
0.0
🎬
Unnatural Causes
as Anne Forrest
1986
5.5
The Demon Lover
as Gina
1986
0.0
Transmutations
as Oriel
1985
3.8
The Innocent
as Mary Turner
1985
5.5
Dance with a Stranger
as Ruth Ellis
1985
6.0
A Woman of Substance
as Paula McGill Amory
1985
7.1
Natural World
as Narrator
1983
7.1
Blackadder
as Nurse Mary
1983
8.0
Blackadder
as Queen Elizabeth I
1983
8.0
Blackadder
as Amy Hardwood, the elusive shadow
1983
8.0
The Comic Strip Presents...
as Bride's Mother
1982
7.4
Agony
as Gudrun
1979
5.7
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
The Bitter End
N/A
0.0