Miranda Richardson
Birthday: 1958-03-03
Place of Birth: Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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Paris Je T'aime
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Empire of the Sun
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Sleepy Hollow
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The Apostle
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Damage
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The Prince & Me
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The Miracle Maker
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Fatherland
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Snow White
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Enchanted April
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The Phantom of the Opera
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Tom & Viv
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The House
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Gideon's Daughter
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
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Blackadder: A Cunning Story
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Operation Orangutan
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The Night and the Moment
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Churchill
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Stronger
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iBoy
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The Master Builder
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Redemption
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Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
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Swann
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Space Virgins from Planet Sex
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The Innocent
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Mountain Language
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Transmutations
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Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
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Sweet as You Are
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Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow....
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Rams
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Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making
An intimate behind the scenes short film while shooting the Black Adder special Back and Forth....
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The Death of the Heart
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
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Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
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The Demon Lover
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Like Tears in Rain
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The Bitter End
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