Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English actress. 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 International Festival.
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| Full name at birth | Miranda Jane Richardson
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| Claim to fame | her roles as Ruth Ellis in the 1985 biographical drama film Dance with a Stranger, Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC sitcom Blackadder, Rose Arbuthnot in the 1991 drama film Enchanted April, Ingrid Thompson-Fleming in the 1992 romantic psychological drama film Damage, Patsy Carpenter in the 1996 comedy-drama film The Evening Star, Lady Van Tassel in the 1999 gothic supernatural horror film Sleepy Hollow Vanessa Bell in the 2002 psychological drama film The Hours, Rita Skeeter in the Harry Potter film series, Patty Bauman in the 2017 biographical drama film Stronger, Sue Thackery in the ITV comedy-drama series Girlfriends, and Madame Tracy in the Prime Video fantasy comedy series Good Omens
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| Date of birth | 3 March 1958
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| Place of birth | Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
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| Height | 5' 5" (165 cm)
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| Weight | 119 lbs (54 kg)
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| Net worth | $8,000,000 USD
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| High school | Southport High School for Girls, Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
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| University | Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
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- Wanted to become a vet.
- Grew up in Southport, Merseyside
- Gave up smoking after being hypnotised.
- Father: William Alan Richardson (Marketing Executive). Mother: Marian Georgina Richardson. Sister: Lesley Richardson (Chiropodist, born in 1949).
- When Richardson was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in Tom & Viv (1994) she was seen as the least likely nominee to actually win. She was so unlikely and the film was so seldom heard of that a TNT public telephone poll cited her film as "Tom and Vic".
Miranda Richardson is known for her role in the film Stronger (2017) as Patty.
She is also known for her role in the film Churchill (2017) as Clemmie Churchill.
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