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