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Miranda Richardson

Mar 03, 1958 (67 years old) in Southport, Lancashire, England, UK

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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Known For

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Natural World
Narrator
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The Comic Strip Presents...
Bride's Mother
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rita Skeeter
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Good Omens
Shax
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Blackadder
Nurse Mary
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Rita Skeeter
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Absolutely Fabulous
Bettina
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Chicken Run
Mrs. Tweedy (voice)
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The Oscars
Self
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Mrs Tweedy (voice)

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