Miranda Richardson

Miranda Richardson

1958-03-03 Southport, Lancashire, England, UK 102 Credits

Biography

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 asserte...

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Like Tears in Rain

Like Tears in Rain

2024

as Self

7.5
Acting

His entire life, the charismatic actor Rutger Hauer kept the outside world at a distance. His inner circle included only a small group of people, amon...

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

2023

as Mrs Tweedy (voice)

7.0
Acting

A band of fearless chickens flock together to save poultry-kind from an unsettling new threat: a nearby farm that's cooking up something suspicious.

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

2023

as Self – Contributor

7.5
Acting

A look back at the making of the entire Blackadder series to commemorate its 40th anniversary, featuring contributions from Blackadder's biggest fans ...

The Magician's Elephant

The Magician's Elephant

2023

as Madam LaVaughn (voice)

6.9
Acting

Peter is searching for his long-lost sister when he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square. His only question is: is his sister stil...

The House

The House

2022

as Aunt Clarice (voice)

7.0
Acting

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy...

Rams

Rams

2020

as Kat

6.4
Acting

In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal ill...

Stronger

Stronger

2017

as Patty Bauman

7.0
Acting

A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.

Churchill

Churchill

2017

as Clementine Churchill

6.2
Acting

A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.

iBoy

iBoy

2017

as Nancy 'Nan' Harvey

6.0
Acting

After an accident, Tom wakes from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have been embedded in his head, and worse, that returning to no...

An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls

2015

as Sybil Birling

7.4
Acting

Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide....

Casanova

Casanova

2015

as Marquise d'Urfé

8.2
Acting

Exiled from his beloved Venice, Giacomo Casanova flees to Paris at the dawn of the Enlightenment in hopes of putting his reputation as a playboy behin...

Operation Orangutan

Operation Orangutan

2015

as Narrator (voice)

7.0
Acting

A rehabilitation centre in western Kalimantan in Borneo aims to rescue and rehabilitate injured and orphaned orangutans for release back into the wild...

Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey

Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

as Narrator (voice)

6.1
Acting

A look at the phenomenal success of novel, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth

2015

as Miss Lorimer

7.3
Acting

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classi...

Orango rischio fatale

Orango rischio fatale

2015

Actor's Assistant

The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm

The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm

2014

as Mrs Blitherington

4.5
Acting

Harry Hill stars in this comedy based on Norman Hunter's books. The Professor has a fight on his hands when a councillor tries to run him out of town ...

Muppets Most Wanted

Muppets Most Wanted

2014

as Berliner at Window

6.3
Acting

While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his das...

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips

2013

as Self / Mrs. Victor

8.3
Acting

A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's fra...

Hidden Universe

Hidden Universe

2013

6.7
Acting

An extraordinary journey deep into space offering fresh insight into the origins and evolution of the universe.

Belle

Belle

2013

as Lady Ashford

7.1
Acting

Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in Engl...

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

2012

as (archive footage)

7.6
Acting

A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between ma...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

2010

as Rita Skeeter

7.7
Acting

Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for ...

Made in Dagenham

Made in Dagenham

2010

as Barbara Castle

6.7
Acting

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Turtle: The Incredible Journey

Turtle: The Incredible Journey

2009

as Narrator (Voice)

6.6
Acting

The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. B...

The Young Victoria

The Young Victoria

2009

as Duchess of Kent

7.2
Acting

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mot...

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

2008

as Self

8.0
Acting

A countdown of the top 40 "Blackadder" moments chosen by cast and crew members, celebrity fans and 15 genuine Blackadders.

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga

2008

as Self

8.0
Acting

To mark the 25th anniversary since the first transmission of Blackadder in 1983, the iconic cast of the much-loved sitcom appear together in a documen...

Southland Tales

Southland Tales

2007

as Nana Mae Frost

5.2
Acting

Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santar...

Fred Claus

Fred Claus

2007

as Annette Claus

5.8
Acting

Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes over...

Puffball

Puffball

2007

as Mabs Tucker

3.6
Acting

Powerful supernatural forces are unleashed when a young architect becomes pregnant after moving to an isolated and mysterious valley to build a house.

Provoked: A True Story

Provoked: A True Story

2007

as Veronica Scott

6.8
Acting

Provoked is the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman who moved to London after her marriage with Deepak Ahluwalia. Her husband seemed car...

Spinning Into Butter

Spinning Into Butter

2007

as Dean Catherine Kenney

5.4
Acting

A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race...

Paris Je T'aime

Paris Je T'aime

2006

as La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)

6.8
Acting

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005

as Rita Skeeter

7.8
Acting

When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Tri...

Gideon's Daughter

Gideon's Daughter

2005

as Stella

6.2
Acting

Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Di...

Wah-Wah

Wah-Wah

2005

as Lauren Compton

6.0
Acting

Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, throu...

Comic Aid

2005

5.0
Acting

Shot live at the one off Comic Aid benefit gig at London’s Carling Apollo – which sold out in just three and a half minutes of tickets being put on sa...

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

2004

as Madame Giry

7.2
Acting

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

Churchill: The Hollywood Years

Churchill: The Hollywood Years

2004

as Eva Braun

5.2
Acting

A group of American executives making a film about World War II decide that since their lead is rather unglamorous, they will draft in an American G.I...

The Prince & Me

The Prince & Me

2004

as Queen Rosalind

6.2
Acting

A fairy tale love-story about pre-med student Paige who falls in love with a Danish Prince "Eddie" who refused to follow the traditions of his parents...

Falling Angels

Falling Angels

2003

as Mary Field

5.9
Acting

The wickedly funny story of three sisters' coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family, set against the backdrop of the 60's, free love, the Cold W...

The Rage in Placid Lake

The Rage in Placid Lake

2003

as Sylvia Lake

6.6
Acting

Placid Lake has always been different. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success....

The Actors

The Actors

2003

as Mrs. Magnani

5.7
Acting

During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his charac...

The Hours

The Hours

2002

as Vanessa Bell

7.3
Acting

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings a...

Spider

Spider

2002

as Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg

6.6
Acting

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a k...

Snow White

Snow White

2001

as Queen Elspeth

5.9
Acting

Snow White's mother dies during childbirth, leaving baby Snow and father John for dead on an icy field, who then receives a visit from one of Satan's ...

Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making

Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making

2001

as Self

6.0
Acting

An intimate behind the scenes short film while shooting the Black Adder special Back and Forth.

Get Carter

Get Carter

2000

as Gloria Carter

5.2
Acting

Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes...

Chicken Run

Chicken Run

2000

as Mrs. Tweedy (voice)

6.8
Acting

The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly!...

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

2000

as Self

7.0
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the making of Sleepy Hollow.

The Miracle Maker

The Miracle Maker

2000

as Mary Magdalene (voice)

5.9
Acting

A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spr...

Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow

1999

as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch

7.2
Acting

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitat...

Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang

Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang

1999

as Miss Fowl

3.6
Acting

Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang is about a young boy who strives to be heard. He is nicknamed "Two-Two" for having to say things twice to be heard...

The Big Brass Ring

The Big Brass Ring

1999

as Dinah Pellarin

4.4
Acting

Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past...

Blackadder: Back & Forth

Blackadder: Back & Forth

1999

as Queenie

7.0
Acting

What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and h...

The King and I

The King and I

1999

as Anna Leonowens (voice)

5.4
Acting

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna an...

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

1999

as Queen of Hearts

6.2
Acting

Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy W...

Ted & Ralph

Ted & Ralph

1998

as Henrietta Blough-Pendleton

6.6
Acting

One-off comedy drama featuring characters from award-winning BBC sketch series 'The Fast Show'. Ralph Mayhew (Charlie Higson) lives alone in a faded s...

The Scold's Bridle

1998

as Dr. Sarah Blakeney

7.0
Acting

Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.

St. Ives

St. Ives

1998

as Susan Gilchrist

5.7
Acting

In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the pris...

The Apostle

The Apostle

1997

as Toosie

6.3
Acting

After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.

The Designated Mourner

The Designated Mourner

1997

as Judy

5.8
Acting

Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story ...

Swann

Swann

1997

as Sarah Maloney

2.5
Acting

Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure...

The Evening Star

The Evening Star

1996

as Patsy Carpenter

5.9
Acting

Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has on...

Saint-Ex

Saint-Ex

1996

as Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

3.0
Acting

Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Kansas City

Kansas City

1996

as Carolyn Stilton

6.2
Acting

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.

The Night and the Moment

The Night and the Moment

1995

as Julie

5.4
Acting

The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts...

Fatherland

Fatherland

1994

as Charlie Maguire

6.2
Acting

Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. ...

Tom & Viv

Tom & Viv

1994

as Vivienne Haigh-Wood

6.1
Acting

The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems a...

Century

Century

1993

as Clara

5.3
Acting

Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.

The Line, the Cross & the Curve

The Line, the Cross & the Curve

1993

as Mysterious Woman

7.2
Acting

A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious woma...

Jealousy

Jealousy

1993

as Stella/Elsbeth

Acting

Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife Jane Margory and convinced she is having an affair ...

Demonella

Demonella

1993

as Marie Antoinette

Acting

Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams, a piece called...

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

1993

as Miss Straugheim

Acting

A craft full of Space Rats,glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex,arrive on Earth desperate to find men with whom they can procreate in orde...

Damage

Damage

1992

as Ingrid Fleming

6.6
Acting

The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.

The Crying Game

The Crying Game

1992

as Jude

6.8
Acting

Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA...

Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

1992

as Sandra

4.5
Acting

Darkly comic murder mystery adapted from Bernice Rubens 's Booker Prize-winning bestseller. Luke Wakefield is not so much a knight in shining armour ...

Enchanted April

Enchanted April

1991

as Rose Arbuthnot

6.8
Acting

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for ...

Old Times

Old Times

1991

5.0
Acting

The scene is a fashionably remodeled farmhouse in the countryside somewhere beyond London, where a prosperous and urbane couple are entertaining the w...

Redemption

Redemption

1991

as Valerie Paris

Acting

After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?

Broken Skin

1991

Acting

The Fool

1990

as Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

7.0
Acting

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working c...

Les Dogs

1990

as Bride's Mother

Acting

Les Dogs are the band playing in a large marquee to celebrate the wedding of Geoffrey and Angela. During the reception, the fathers of the groom and b...

The Bachelor

The Bachelor

1990

as Friederike / Widow Sommer

Acting

In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.

Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage

1989

as Early Bird

5.2
Acting

Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families t...

Twisted Obsession

Twisted Obsession

1989

as Marilyn

5.3
Acting

An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and mani...

Communicators From Hell

Communicators From Hell

1989

Acting

John Cleese training video.

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

1988

as Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX

7.8
Acting

After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.

Mountain Language

Mountain Language

1988

as Young Woman

4.0
Acting

Harold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. 'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allowed to speak your language. Your language no longer...

The Master Builder

The Master Builder

1988

as Hilde Wangel

Acting

Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being surpa...

Sweet As You Are

Sweet As You Are

1988

as Julia Perry

1.0
Acting

A college lecturer contracts HIV after having a brief affair with one of his students. The news threatens his marriage and family life.

Empire of the Sun

Empire of the Sun

1987

as Mrs. Victor

7.5
Acting

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured w...

Eat the Rich

Eat the Rich

1987

as DHSS Blonde

6.2
Acting

Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class...

The Death of the Heart

The Death of the Heart

1987

as Daphne Heccomb

Acting

A young orphan girl, Portia, goes to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle. As she is groomed to become a lady, she is confused by the young man who...

After Pilkington

After Pilkington

1987

as Penny Newhouse

7.0
Acting

The quiet life of Oxford professor James Westgate is shattered when he is introduced to Penny, the wife of his crass new colleague.

Lost Property

Lost Property

1986

as Anne

Acting

Anne and John Forrest live in an old Victorian school building. But what for Anne is the fulfillment of her childhood fantasy about a “pretend” school...

The Demon Lover

The Demon Lover

1986

as Gina

Acting

When young Kathleen makes a promise to Keith Cameron during World War One, that no matter what happens they will meet again one day, she little realis...

Transmutations

Transmutations

1985

as Oriel

3.7
Acting

When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating ...

The Innocent

The Innocent

1985

as Mary Turner

5.5
Acting

A young Yorkshire boy struggles to come to grips with squabbling parents, a doctor who wants to institutionalize him because of his epilepsy, and a mo...

Dance with a Stranger

Dance with a Stranger

1985

as Ruth Ellis

6.0
Acting

Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for Da...

The Yellow Tie

The Yellow Tie

N/A

as Ioana Celibidache

Acting

The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit of a career in music, his struggle for survival in...

The Bitter End

The Bitter End

N/A

Acting

Telling the story of the final years of the woman who married King Edward VIII and broke up the monarchy.