Miranda Richardson
Biography of Miranda Richardson
Miranda Richardson was born on March 3, 1958, in Southport, Lancashire.
She was the second child of Mariana Georgina Townsend, a homemaker, and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive.
From a very young age, she revealed a special talent for acting.
She attended the Bristol Old Vic Theater School where she studied alongside Daniel Day-Lewis.
The beginnings of her career were focused on regional theater, later moving to British television, where she achieved great success.
In 1985, she made her film debut as Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in the UK, in the biographical drama, Dance with a Stranger.
She was awarded an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her appearance in Damage.
In 2005, she played Daily Prophet reporter Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She was Mrs. Claus in the movie Fred Claus (2007) and appeared in the BBC sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle. In 2015, she played Sybil Birling in An Inspector Calls.
Filmography
1980 The First Day
1985 Dance with a Stranger
1985 Underworld
1985 The Innocent
1987 Eat the Rich
1987 Empire of the Sun
1990 The Bachelor
1990 The Fool
1990 Twisted Obsession
1991 Broken Skin
1992 The Crying Game
1992 Damage
1992 Enchanted April
1993 Century
1993 The Line, the Cross and the Curve
1994 Tom & Viv
1995 The Night and the Moment
1996 The Evening Star
1996 Kansas City
1996 Swann
1997 Clara
1997 The Apostle
1999 Sleepy Hollow
1999 The King and I
1999 Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang
2000 Get Carter
2000 Chicken Run
2000 The Miracle Maker
2000 The Magic of Vincent
2002 The Hours
2003 The Actors
2003 The Rage in Placid Lake
2003 Falling Angels
2004 The Prince and Me
2004 Churchill: The Hollywood Years
2004 The Phantom of the Opera
2005 Midsummer Dream
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2006 Wah-Wah
2007 Provoked
2007 Paris, je t'aime
2007 Fred Claus
2007 Southland Tales
2008 Puffball
2009 The Young Victoria
2009 A Fox's Tale
2009 Spinning into Butter
2010 Made in Dagenham
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2013 Belle
2014 Muppets Most Wanted
2014 Maleficent
2015 Testament of Youth
2017 iBoy
2017 Churchill
2017 Stronger
2020 Rams Kat
2022 The House
Television
1981 Agony Gudrun
1982 The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim
1983 The Hard Word
1983 Crown Court Susan Palmer
1984 Sorrell and Son
1984 A Woman of Substance
1985 The Death of the Heart
1986 Blackadder II
1986 Saturday Live
1986 Shades of Darkness
1986 Unnatural Causes
1987 After Pilkington
1987 The South Bank Show
1987 Blackadder the Third
1988 Sweet as You Are
1988 A Night of Comic Relief
1988 The Master Builder
1988 The Storyteller
1988 Mountain Language
1988 Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1989 A Night of Comic Relief 2
1989 Blackadder Goes Forth
1989 Cracking Up
1989 Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage
1989 Smith and Jones
1990 10x10
1990 Die Kinder
1990 The Comic Strip Presents...
1991 Redemption
1991 Old Times
1992 Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
1992 The True Adventures of Christopher Columbus
1993 Saturday Night Live Host
1994 Fatherland
1994 Absolutely Fabulous
1996 Saint-Ex
1997 A Dance to the Music of Time
1998 The Scold's Bridle
1998 Merlin Queen Mab
1998 Ted and Ralph
1999 Alice in Wonderland
1999 St. Ives
1999 The Big Brass Ring
1999 Blackadder: Back & Forth
2001 The Fantastic Flying Journey
2001 Snow White: The Fairest of Them All
2003 The Lost Prince
2003 Comic Relief: The Big Hair Do
2005 The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill Corky the Horse
2006 Gideon's Daughter
2006 Merlin's Apprentice
2007 The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle
2010 Rubicon
2012 Dead Boss
2012 Parade's End
2012 World Without End
2014 Psychobitches
2014 The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm
2014 Mapp and Lucia
2015 Casanova
2015 An Inspector Calls
2015 And Then There Were None
2016 Walliams and Friend
2016 Danger Mouse
2018 Girlfriends
2019 Curfew
2019 Good Omens
2022 Fate: The Winx Saga