Miranda Richardson
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.
Acting
Movie
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
as Rita Skeeter
2005
Movie
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Rita Skeeter
2010
Movie
Sleepy Hollow
as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch
1999
Movie
Chicken Run
as Mrs. Tweedy (voice)
2000
TV
Good Omens
as Shax
2019
TV
Good Omens
as Madame Tracy
2019
Movie
Empire of the Sun
as Mrs. Victor
1987
Movie
The Hours
as Vanessa Bell
2002
Movie
The Phantom of the Opera
as Madame Giry
2004
Movie
Stronger
as Patty Bauman
2017
TV
Fate: The Winx Saga
as Rosalind
2021
Movie
iBoy
as Nancy 'Nan' Harvey
2017
Movie
The House
as Aunt Clarice (voice)
2022
Movie
The Young Victoria
as Duchess of Kent
2009
Movie
The Prince & Me
as Queen Rosalind
2004
Movie
Spider
as Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg
2002
Movie
Fred Claus
as Annette Claus
2007
Movie
Muppets Most Wanted
as Berliner at Window
2014
Movie
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
as Mrs Tweedy (voice)
2023
Movie
The Crying Game
as Jude
1992
Movie
Paris Je T'aime
as La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)
2006
Movie
Testament of Youth
as Miss Lorimer
2015
Movie
Belle
as Lady Ashford
2013
Movie
Damage
as Ingrid Fleming
1992
