Miranda Richardson
Acting • Born 1958-03-03
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.
Filmography
146 credits
The Hours
Movie • 2002
Vanessa Bell
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Movie • 2005
Rita Skeeter
Paris Je T'aime
Movie • 2006
La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)
Empire of the Sun
Movie • 1987
Mrs. Victor
Sleepy Hollow
Movie • 1999
Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
The Apostle
Movie • 1997
Toosie
Get Carter
Movie • 2000
Gloria Carter
Southland Tales
Movie • 2007
Nana Mae Frost
Damage
Movie • 1992
Ingrid Fleming
The Prince & Me
Movie • 2004
Queen Rosalind
Fred Claus
Movie • 2007
Annette Claus
The Evening Star
Movie • 1996
Patsy Carpenter
The Miracle Maker
Movie • 2000
Mary Magdalene (voice)
Fatherland
Movie • 1994
Charlie Maguire
The Crying Game
Movie • 1992
Jude
Chicken Run
Movie • 2000
Mrs. Tweedy (voice)
Kansas City
Movie • 1996
Carolyn Stilton
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 1999
Queen of Hearts
Puffball
Movie • 2007
Mabs Tucker
Snow White
Movie • 2001
Elspeth
Spinning Into Butter
Movie • 2009
Dean Catherine Kenney
The Actors
Movie • 2003
Mrs. Magnani
Enchanted April
Movie • 1991
Rose Arbuthnot
Spider
Movie • 2002
Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg
The Phantom of the Opera
Movie • 2004
Madame Giry
Dance with a Stranger
Movie • 1985
Ruth Ellis
The Magician's Elephant
Movie • 2023
Madam LaVaughn (voice)
Turtle: The Incredible Journey
Movie • 2009
Narrator (Voice)
The Rage in Placid Lake
Movie • 2003
Sylvia Lake
Wah-Wah
Movie • 2005
Lauren Compton
Provoked: A True Story
Movie • 2007
Veronica Scott
The Big Brass Ring
Movie • 1999
Dinah Pellarin
Made in Dagenham
Movie • 2010
Barbara Castle
The King and I
Movie • 1999
Anna Leonowens (voice)
Tom & Viv
Movie • 1994
Vivienne Haigh-Wood
The Young Victoria
Movie • 2009
Duchess of Kent
St. Ives
Movie • 1998
Susan Gilchrist
The House
Movie • 2022
Aunt Clarice (voice)
Gideon's Daughter
Movie • 2005
Stella
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Movie • 1988
Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
Movie • 2023
Self - Contributor
Saint-Ex
Movie • 1996
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
The Designated Mourner
Movie • 1997
Judy
Twisted Obsession
Movie • 1989
Marilyn
Operation Orangutan
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
The Night and the Moment
Movie • 1995
Julie
Old Times
Movie • 1991
Belle
Movie • 2013
Lady Ashford
Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
The Bachelor
Movie • 1990
Friederike / Widow Sommer
The Scold's Bridle
Movie • 1998
Dr. Sarah Blakeney
After Pilkington
Movie • 1987
Penny Newhouse
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Movie • 2023
Mrs Tweedy (voice)
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Movie • 1999
Miss Fowl
Les Dogs
Movie • 1990
Bride's Mother
Testament of Youth
Movie • 2015
Miss Lorimer
Hidden Universe
Movie • 2013
Demonella
Movie • 1993
Marie Antoinette
Jealousy
Movie • 1993
Stella/Elsbeth
Century
Movie • 1993
Clara
Muppets Most Wanted
Movie • 2014
Berliner at Window
Lost Property
Movie • 1986
Anne
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Movie • 1999
Queenie
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
Movie • 2014
Mrs Blitherington
Ted & Ralph
Movie • 1998
Henrietta Blough-Pendleton
The Yellow Tie
Movie • 2025
Ioana Celibidache
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Movie • 1989
Early Bird
Comic Aid
Movie • 2005
Falling Angels
Movie • 2003
Mary Field
Eat the Rich
Movie • 1987
DHSS Blonde
Churchill: The Hollywood Years
Movie • 2004
Eva Braun
An Inspector Calls
Movie • 2015
Sybil Birling
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
Movie • 1992
Sandra
The Fool
Movie • 1990
Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia
The Line, the Cross & the Curve
Movie • 1994
Mysterious Woman
Churchill
Movie • 2017
Clementine Churchill
Stronger
Movie • 2017
Patty Bauman
iBoy
Movie • 2017
Nancy 'Nan' Harvey
The Master Builder
Movie • 1988
Hilde Wangel
Redemption
Movie • 1991
Valerie Paris
Casanova
Movie • 2015
Marquise d'Urfé
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
Movie • 2008
Self
Swann
Movie • 1997
Sarah Maloney
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
Movie • 1993
Miss Straugheim
The Innocent
Movie • 1985
Mary Turner
Mountain Language
Movie • 1988
Young Woman
Transmutations
Movie • 1985
Oriel
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
Movie • 2013
Self / Mrs. Victor
Sweet as You Are
Movie • 1988
Julia Perry
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
Movie • 2000
Self
Rams
Movie • 2020
Kat
Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
Movie • 2001
Self
The Death of the Heart
Movie • 1987
Daphne Heccomb
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Movie • 2010
Rita Skeeter
Broken Skin
Movie • 1991
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Movie • 2008
Self
Communicators From Hell
Movie • 1989
The Demon Lover
Movie • 1986
Gina
Like Tears in Rain
Movie • 2024
Self
The Bitter End
Movie
The Queen of Fashion
Movie
Helen Delves Broughton
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Movie • 2005
Queenie (archive footage) (uncredited)
Custom of the Country
Movie
This Morning
TV • 1988
Self
Shooting Stars
TV • 1993
Self
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
TV • 2007
The Storyteller
TV • 1988
Witch
The Lost Prince
TV • 2003
Queen Mary
Merlin's Apprentice
TV • 2006
Lady of the Lake
A Woman of Substance
TV • 1985
Paula McGill Amory
V Graham Norton
TV • 2002
Self
A Dance to the Music of Time
TV • 1997
Pamela Flitton
Natural World
TV • 1983
Narrator
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Rubicon
TV • 2010
Katherine Rhumor
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Parade's End
TV • 2012
Mrs. Wannop
Merlin
TV • 1998
Lady of the Lake / Mab
Unnatural Causes
TV • 1986
Anne Forrest
Good Omens
TV • 2019
Shax
Die Kinder
TV • 1990
Sidonie Reiger
And Then There Were None
TV • 2015
Emily Brent
Dead Boss
TV • 2012
Jo
Blackadder
TV • 1983
Queen Elizabeth I
Blackadder
TV • 1983
Nurse Mary
Agony
TV • 1979
Gudrun
Casanova
TV • 2015
Marquise d'Urfé
Mapp and Lucia
TV • 2014
Elizabeth Mapp
Blackadder
TV • 1983
Amy Hardwood, the elusive shadow
Girlfriends
TV • 2018
Sue
Modern Love
TV • 2019
Jane
World Without End
TV • 2012
Mother Cecilia
The Last Anniversary
TV • 2025
Rose
The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill
TV • 2005
Corky (British dub voice)
Curfew
TV • 2019
Lou
Fate: The Winx Saga
TV • 2021
Rosalind
The Scold's Bridle
TV • 1998
Dr Sarah Blakeney
Final Chance to Save
TV • 2005
Herself
Performance
TV • 1991
Anna
The Comic Strip Presents...
TV • 1982
Bride's Mother
Good Omens
TV • 2019
Madame Tracy
Danger Mouse
TV • 2015
Queen of Weevils (voice)
Absolutely Fabulous
TV • 1992
Bettina
Psychobitches
TV • 2013
Enid Blyton