Miranda Richardson

ActorCrew Mar 3 (age 68) Southport, Lancashire, England, UK 1975–2025 (50 year career)

6.3 avg rating

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…

Known For

Film

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Rita Skeeter

Film

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

Rita Skeeter

Film

Sleepy Hollow

Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch

Film

Good Omens

Shax

Film

Chicken Run

Mrs. Tweedy (voice)

Film

Empire of the Sun

Mrs. Victor

Film

The Phantom of the Opera

Madame Giry

Film

The Hours

Vanessa Bell

Filmography

Acting (145)

Movies (104)

The Yellow Tie

as Ioana Celibidache

Like Tears in Rain

as Self

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

2023

as Mrs Tweedy (voice)

6.9

The Magician's Elephant

2023

as Madam LaVaughn (voice)

6.8

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

2023

as Self - Contributor

7.5

The House

2022

as Aunt Clarice (voice)

Rams

as Kat

Stronger

as Patty Bauman

iBoy

as Nancy 'Nan' Harvey

5.9

Churchill

2017

as Clementine Churchill

Casanova

as Marquise d'Urfé

An Inspector Calls

as Sybil Birling

Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey

as Narrator (voice)

Testament of Youth

as Miss Lorimer

Operation Orangutan

as Narrator (voice)

Muppets Most Wanted

as Berliner at Window

6.3

The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm

as Mrs Blitherington

Belle

as Lady Ashford

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips

2013

as Self / Mrs. Victor

8.3

Hidden Universe

2013

6.8

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

2012

as (archive footage)

7.5

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

as Rita Skeeter

Made in Dagenham

as Barbara Castle

The Young Victoria

as Duchess of Kent

Turtle: The Incredible Journey

2009

as Narrator (Voice)

6.6

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

2008

as Self

4.5

Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga

2008

as Self

7.8

Provoked: A True Story

as Veronica Scott

Southland Tales

as Nana Mae Frost

Fred Claus

as Annette Claus

Puffball

as Mabs Tucker

Spinning Into Butter

as Dean Catherine Kenney

5.4

Paris Je T'aime

2006

as La femme au trench rouge (Bastille)

6.8

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

as Rita Skeeter

Wah-Wah

as Lauren Compton

Gideon's Daughter

as Stella

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

2005

as Queenie (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.0

Comic Aid

2005

5.0

The Phantom of the Opera

as Madame Giry

The Prince & Me

as Queen Rosalind

Churchill: The Hollywood Years

as Eva Braun

The Actors

as Mrs. Magnani

Falling Angels

as Mary Field

The Rage in Placid Lake

2003

as Sylvia Lake

6.4

Spider

2002

as Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg

The Hours

as Vanessa Bell

Snow White

as Elspeth

Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making

2001

as Self

6.0

Chicken Run

2000

as Mrs. Tweedy (voice)

Get Carter

as Gloria Carter

The Miracle Maker

as Mary Magdalene (voice)

6.1

Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend

2000

as Self

7.1

Sleepy Hollow

1999

as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch

7.2

Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang

1999

as Miss Fowl

3.6

Blackadder: Back & Forth

as Queenie

Alice in Wonderland

as Queen of Hearts

The King and I

as Anna Leonowens (voice)

The Big Brass Ring

as Dinah Pellarin

Ted & Ralph

as Henrietta Blough-Pendleton

St. Ives

as Susan Gilchrist

The Scold's Bridle

as Dr. Sarah Blakeney

The Apostle

as Toosie

Swann

as Sarah Maloney

The Designated Mourner

1997

as Judy

5.2

Saint-Ex

1996

as Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

Kansas City

as Carolyn Stilton

The Evening Star

as Patsy Carpenter

The Night and the Moment

as Julie

Fatherland

as Charlie Maguire

Tom & Viv

as Vivienne Haigh-Wood

6.1

The Line, the Cross & the Curve

1994

as Mysterious Woman

7.1

Jealousy

1993

as Stella/Elsbeth

Space Virgins from Planet Sex

1993

as Miss Straugheim

Demonella

1993

as Marie Antoinette

Century

as Clara

Damage

as Ingrid Fleming

The Crying Game

as Jude

Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

1992

as Sandra

4.5

Redemption

1991

as Valerie Paris

Enchanted April

as Rose Arbuthnot

Old Times

Broken Skin

Les Dogs

as Bride's Mother

The Bachelor

1990

as Friederike / Widow Sommer

The Fool

1990

as Columbine / Rosalind / Ophelia

7.0

Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage

as Early Bird

Twisted Obsession

as Marilyn

Communicators From Hell

1989

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

1988

as Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX

Sweet as You Are

as Julia Perry

Mountain Language

as Young Woman

The Master Builder

as Hilde Wangel

Empire of the Sun

as Mrs. Victor

Eat the Rich

as DHSS Blonde

The Death of the Heart

as Daphne Heccomb

After Pilkington

as Penny Newhouse

Lost Property

as Anne

The Demon Lover

1986

as Gina

Transmutations

1985

as Oriel

3.8

Dance with a Stranger

as Ruth Ellis

The Innocent

as Mary Turner

Custom of the Country

The Duchess and I

The Queen of Fashion

as Helen Delves Broughton

Television (41)

The Last Anniversary

as Rose

Fate: The Winx Saga

as Rosalind

Good Omens

as Shax

Good Omens

as Madame Tracy

Modern Love

as Jane

Curfew

as Lou

Girlfriends

as Sue

And Then There Were None

2015

as Emily Brent

7.5

Danger Mouse

2015

as Queen of Weevils (voice)

Casanova

as Marquise d'Urfé

Mapp and Lucia

as Elizabeth Mapp

Psychobitches

as Enid Blyton

World Without End

as Mother Cecilia

Parade's End

as Mrs. Wannop

Dead Boss

as Jo

Rubicon

as Katherine Rhumor

The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle

The One Show

as Self - Guest

Merlin's Apprentice

as Lady of the Lake

The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill

2005

as Corky (British dub voice)

Final Chance to Save

2005

as Herself

The Lost Prince

as Queen Mary

V Graham Norton

as Self

Merlin

as Lady of the Lake / Mab

6.9

The Scold's Bridle

1998

as Dr Sarah Blakeney

A Dance to the Music of Time

as Pamela Flitton

Shooting Stars

as Self

Absolutely Fabulous

as Bettina

Performance

as Anna

Die Kinder

as Sidonie Reiger

The Storyteller

as Witch

This Morning

as Self

Unnatural Causes

as Anne Forrest

A Woman of Substance

as Paula McGill Amory

Blackadder

as Queen Elizabeth I

Blackadder

as Queens Elizabeth I / Asphyxia XIX

8.0

Natural World

1983

as Narrator

7.3

The Comic Strip Presents...

as Bride's Mother

Agony

as Gudrun

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

The Oscars

as Self

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Orango rischio fatale

2015

Actor's Assistant