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Miranda Richardson
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Miranda Jane Richardson 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.
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Miranda Jane Richardson 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.
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Good Omens
Modern Love
Blackadder
The Oscars
The One Show
Performance
Fate: The Winx Saga
Saturday Night Live
Absolutely Fabulous
Dead Boss
The Storyteller
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Muppets Most Wanted
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Miracle Maker
Merlin
World Without End
Testament of Youth
And Then There Were None
Demonella
Rubicon
The Magician's Elephant
Curfew
Casanova
Ted & Ralph
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Chicken Run
Casanova
Belle
An Inspector Calls
The Hours
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
The Evening Star
Redemption
Fred Claus
iBoy
The Young Victoria
Jealousy
The Prince & Me
The Phantom of the Opera
Les Dogs
The Master Builder
Century
Old Times
Sleepy Hollow
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
The Last Anniversary
The Scold's Bridle
Fatherland
Mountain Language
Gideon's Daughter
Spider
The Designated Mourner
Sweet As You Are
After Pilkington
The Crying Game
Enchanted April
Mapp and Lucia
Merlin's Apprentice
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