Miranda richardson biography
- Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English actress who has worked in film, television and theatre.
- Miranda Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, England on March 3, 1958, to Marian Georgina (Townsend) and William Alan Richardson, a marketing.
- Miranda Jane Richardson is an English actress who has worked in film, television and theatre.
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Miranda Richardson
Birth name
Miranda Jane Richardson
Years active
1980-present
Other roles
- The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
- Tom & Viv (1994)
- Damage (1992)
- Blackadder II (1986)
Career[]
A critically-acclaimed, two-time Oscar nominee for her roles in the films Damage (1992) and Tom & Viv (1994), Richardson has also appeared in films such as Empire of the Sun (1987) (scored by John Williams), The Crying Game (1992), Merlin (1998), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Chicken Run (2000), The Phantom of the Opera (2004) and The Young Victoria (2009).
On television, she is best known for her numerous appearances in Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder franchise, most notably as "Queen
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Dominant British actress of the '80s and '90s, who trained at the Bristol Old Vic Drama School and whose range is astonishing. As platinum-blonde, vividly lipsticked Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger (d. Mike Newell, 1984), she evoked the cruelty of a class and an era as well as incarnating unforgettably the doomed woman. At the opposite end of the spectrum she was the execution-mad Queen Elizabeth ('Who's Queen?' she asks rhetorically) in TV's Blackadder II (BBC, 1986). Is there nothing she can't do?
Probably not: think of the meek wife who blossoms under the Italian sun in Enchanted April (d. Newell, 1992) or the embittered wife of a philandering politician who causes their son's death in Damage (UK/France, d. Louis Malle, 1992), which earned her a supporting actress BAFTA and an Oscar nomination, or the alarming IRA operative, Jude, in The Crying Game (d. Neil Jordan, 1992, another BAFTA nomination) and the neurotic, aristocratic first Mrs T.S. Eliot (AAn/BAAn) in Tom & Viv (UK/US, d. Brian Gilbert, 1994, Oscar and BAFTA nominations).
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Miranda Richardson
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1958 - Today
Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English actress who has worked in film, television and theatre. After graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, 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. Richardson has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Damage and the Academy Award for Best Actress for Tom & Viv. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miranda Richardson has received more than 6,759,953 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Miranda Richardson is the 1,897th most popular actor (down from 1,689th in 2019), the 1,817th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,709th in 2019) and the 249th most popular British Actor.
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