Miranda Richardson Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
Birth name Miranda Jane Richardson
British nationality
Birth March 3, 1958 (Southport, Lancashire – England)

BIOGRAPHY
Miranda Richardson left high school at 17 and after some hesitation enrolled in drama school. In three years, she successfully completed her course and began her career on stage in Manchester then London. In the early 1980s, she made a few appearances on television before making her big screen debut in 1985 in Mike Newell ‘s A Crime for a Passion in which she played a hostess in a nightclub frequented by London’s high society. This very successful first film allowed him to shoot Empire of the Sun two years later under the direction of Steven Spielberg . Her partners include Christian Bale and John Malkovich . Her career took off again in 1992. That year, she stood out for three compositions. Her performance as a deceived wife in Fatale earned her an Oscar nomination. For Neil Jordan ‘s The Crying Game , she takes on the role of an IRA terrorist. She also reunites with Mike Newell for Avril enchante in which she plays a depressed housewife who regains her taste for life in an Italian castle. In 1994, Miranda Richardson was again recognized for her work. She is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her new portrayal of a troubled wife in Tom & Viv . We then find it in very varied universes. She is the kidnapped wife of a politician in the heart of America in the thirties in Kansas City (1996) by Robert Altman , finds herself in the South of the United States for The Preacher (1997) by Robert Duvall and plays a village women frightened by the decapitations of the headless horseman in Sleepy Hollow (1999) by Tim Burton . In 2000, she gave the voice of the farmer Mrs. Tweedy in Chicken Run and appeared alongside Sylvester Stallone in the thriller Get Carter . In 2002, she returned to England to tour under the direction of David Cronenberg . In Spider , she plays no less than three roles of women who turn the head of little Dennis Cleg played by Ralph Fiennes and Bradley Hall . Unaccustomed to big productions, she nevertheless made her entry into the magical world of Hogwarts in 2005 by playing the witch-journalist Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire .

The English actress is experiencing a little crossing of the desert, appearing only in the background of productions where she essentially embodies bourgeois roles. She plays the evil Nana Mae Frost in the futuristic Southland Tales (2006) with Dwayne Johnson , amuses the gallery by playing Mother Christmas for David Dobkin in Brother Christmas (2007), slips into the skin of the Duchess of Kent alongside ‘ Emily Blunt in Victoria: The Young Years of a Queen (2009) and plays Barbara, the Labor Secretary of State alongside Sally Hawkins in the committed and provocative We Want Sex Equality (2010). That same year, she reprized her role as Rita Skeeter in the penultimate installment of the Harry Potter saga, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010).

More than two years after Absolutely Fabulous , Miranda Richardson, at a standstill on the big screen, is once again taking on television series: Rubicon , Parade’s End and The Pillars of the Earth . On the cinema side, she participated in Maleficent (2014) from Disney Studios, playing Queen Ulla, alongside Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning .