Miranda Richardson is an accomplished stage, film and television actress with a prodigious range. Her performances have been widely met with critical acclaim and award nominations. Richardson trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She made her first impression on film audiences in Mike Newell’s Dance with a Stranger. Her first US production was Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun. In 1992 Richardson’s performances in The Crying Game, directed by Neil Jordan, Enchanted April, directed by Mike Newell and Damage, directed by Louis Malle, garnered the New York Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress of the year.
Miranda Richardson is an accomplished stage, film and television actress with a prodigious range. Her performances have been widely met with critical acclaim and award nominations. Richardson trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She made her first impression on film audiences in Mike Newell’s Dance with a Stranger. Her first US production was Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun. In 1992 Richardson’s performances in The Crying Game, directed by Neil Jordan, Enchanted April, directed by Mike Newell and Damage, directed by Louis Malle, garnered the New York Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress of the year.
Richardson won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Damage at the BAFTAs in 1993 and two Golden Globe awards for Best Actress (1993) and Best Supporting Actress in a Series (1995) for Enchanted April and Fatherland, respectively. In total, she has been nominated for seven BAFTAs (for her roles in After Pilkington (1988), The Crying Game (1993), Tom and Viv (1994), A Dance To The Music of Time (1998), The Lost Prince (2004) and Made in Dagenham (2011)) and seven Golden Globes (for her roles in Damage (1993), Tom and Viv (1994), Merlin (1999), The Big Brass Ring (2000) and The Lost Prince (2005)). Richardson has received two Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress (1993) for Damage and Best Actress (1995) for her portrayal of Vivienne Haigh-Wood, the wife of poet T S Eliot, in Tom and Viv. Richardson was nominated at the 1988 Olivier Awards in the Best Actress category for A Lie of the Mind.
Richardson is also well known for her role as Queen Elizabeth I, aka Queenie, in the British television comedy Blackadder. Additional high-profile supporting roles include Lady Mary Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow, the voice of Mrs. Tweedy in the Aardman animation Chicken Run, Vanessa Bell in The Hours and Rita Skeeter, and the toxic Daily Prophet journalist in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.
In 2017, Richardson starred in Stronger alongside Jake Gyllenhaal. Stronger is an inspiring true story of tragedy and rebirth after two peoples’ lives are forever altered by a terrifying act of violence. Directed by Gordon Green, Stronger follows Jeff Bauman, a survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, as he struggles to rebuild his life. Richardson stars as Bauman’s dedicated mother in a performance Deadline described as “an award-caliber turn.” Stronger screened at both the Toronto International Film Festival and London Film Festival in 2017.
In 2018, Richardson was seen in ITV’s six-part drama Girlfriends, written by BAFTA-winning screenwriter Kay Mellor. Girlfriends was nominated for the Drama Series Award at the National Television Awards 2019. Following this, Richardson was seen in Sky’s 10-part series Curfew alongside Sean Bean and Robert Glenister.
Richardson starred in the Amazon Original series Good Omens, Neil Gaiman’s TV adaptation of the beloved cult novel he wrote with Terry Pratchett. Richardson appeared alongside David Tennant and Michael Sheen. Richardson played Madame Tracy, the psychic medium and part-time courtesan who provides a helping hand to the pair as they try to save the world from Armageddon. The six-part series launched globally on Prime Video in May 2019.
Richardson was most recently seen in Rams, the English-language remake of the Un Certain Regard winner. Richardson starred alongside Sam Neill and Michael Caton. Richardson played Kat, the local veterinarian of a sheep-farming town hit by a rare disease affecting the flocks of estranged brothers Colin and Les. The outbreak forces them to work together to save their livelihoods and family legacy. Following this, Richardson was seen in the Amazon Original series Modern Love. Next up is Disney’s The Magician’s Elephant.
