Miranda Richardson, born March 3, 1958, is an English actress who works in theater, film, and TV. She broke out playing Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger and scored Oscar noms for Damage and Tom & Viv . She grabbed a BAFTA for Supporting Actress in Damage and Golden Globes for Enchanted April and the TV movie Fatherland .
She started on stage, hit the West End in Moving , and got an Olivier nomination for A Lie of the Mind . On TV she’s famous for Blackadder , A Dance to the Music of Time , Merlin , The Lost Prince , and the sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle .
Other big films: Empire of the Sun , The Crying Game , The Apostle , Sleepy Hollow , Spider , Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , and Made in Dagenham .
