Miranda Richardson

Name: Miranda Richardson
Date of Birth: March 03, 1958
Place of Birth: Southport, Merseyside, UK

Mini-bio: She had originally intended to study veterinary medicine, but her squeamishness made this impractical. She enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she studied alongside Daniel Day-Lewis....( read more

) In 1981, she made her stage debut in Moving at the Queen's Theatre in London. Three years later, she made her big screen debut as platinum blonde nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom in Mike Newell's critically acclaimed biographical drama, Dance With A Stranger. Her performance won her much praise, and within a year she had been cast by Steven Spielberg to appear in his World War II drama Empire Of The Sun (1987).

Richardson is perhaps best known for her role as infantile Queen Elizabeth I, aka Queenie, in the British television comedy Blackadder II. Other television roles include the bitchy Pamela Flitton in A Dance To The Music Of Time (1997), Miss Gilchrist in St. Ives (1998), Bettina (the obsessive compulsive interior decorator) in Absolutely Fabulous, The Wicked Stepmother Hallmark's "Snow White: The Fairest Of Them All", along with Kristin Kreuk (2001) and the emotionally repressed Queen Mary in The Lost Prince (2003). As well as a number of high profile supporting roles in the cinema, including Vanessa Bell in The Hours, Lady Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow and Patsy Carpenter in The Evening Star, she has also won acclaim for her performances in The Crying Game and Enchanted April, for which she won a Golden Globe, beating a quartet of Hollywood heavyweights: Geena Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep.

Two Academy Award nominations (for Damage and Tom & Viv) have not altered the actress's modesty. She refuses to discuss her private life in interviews, and takes both leading and supporting roles in a variety of different genres. Her extensive film credits include worthy stints in a number of critically acclaimed independent features, among them Robert Altman's Kansas City (1996), Robert Duvall's The Apostle (1997) and Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah (2005). In 2002, Richardson wowed critics with a triple-role stint (as Mrs Cleg, Yvonne and Mrs Wilkinson in a hallucination) alongside Ralph Fiennes in David Cronenberg's acclaimed thriller Spider, a film that won her a bevy of international critics awards.

More recently, Richardson appeared as Queen Rosalind of Denmark in the Julia Stiles vehicle The Prince And Me, and the ballet mistress Madame Giry in the long-awaited film version of The Phantom Of The Opera, starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum. She has also reprised her role as Queen Elizabeth in Blackadder for both a Christmas Special (Blackadder's Christmas Carol 1988), and a special edition for the Millennium (Blackadder: Back and Forth, 2000) which was originally screened at the millennium dome . Her latest screen incarnation is in the guise of Rita Skeeter, the toxic Daily Prophet journalist in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, released in November 2005. She currently lives in London, but she also has a Somerset retreat, with her two cats, two dogs and an axolotl.

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RuthieGreenGirl

Does anyone play a "bad guy" better than her? She's just too good for words.

posted 380 days ago
sexymullo69

Omg she comes from around where i live, i never knew that!! She's such an amazing actress, she did a really good job in phantom of the opera and played a hilarious rita skeeter in harry potter

posted 391 days ago
immortal1blue

This woman is incredible and she is able to play so many different parts. I've seen her in Phantom of the Opera, Sleepy Hollow, Harry Potter, and Merlin. I'm a big Queen Mab fan.

posted 412 days ago
naasjude

ACTORS ARE VERY SIMPLE PERSONS.SO ASK TO TRY AND THIS .TELL HER I WIIL TO BE TALENTED HER.AM ACTOR IN THE AFRICAN AND PARTICULARLY CAMEROON FILM INDUSTRY.

posted 489 days ago
naasjude

WHAT DEOS IT TAKE FOR YOUG AND POOR ACTORS TO ACT LIKE YOU.

posted 489 days ago
Byrds7

loved her in phantom of the opera. she's great. i also loved her in Harry Potter:]

posted 492 days ago
gertie4god4ever

i loved her in snow white and merlin she is brilliant

posted 513 days ago
timmansimpson

Loved Miranda Richardson as the Queen of Hearts in "Alice in Wonderland"! she did a wonderful job!!

posted 544 days ago
woulduaskpicasso2sellhisguitar

Loved her as 'Queen Mab' in 'Merlin'!

posted 544 days ago
missinguall123

Miranda Richardson is amazing! I especially loved her in Sleepy Hollow, The Phantom of the Opera and her take as Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire..no one else could have played that role better!

posted 580 days ago