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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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miranda Richardson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miranda Richardson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Good Omens
Modern Love
The One Show
Blackadder
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
Testament of Youth
World Without End
Demonella
And Then There Were None
Casanova
Ted & Ralph
Rubicon
The Magician's Elephant
Curfew
Belle
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Casanova
Chicken Run
An Inspector Calls
The Hours
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
Jealousy
Redemption
The Oscars
The Evening Star
iBoy
The Phantom of the Opera
Les Dogs
Fred Claus
The Young Victoria
The Prince & Me
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Old Times
Sleepy Hollow
The Master Builder
Century
The Designated Mourner
The Scold's Bridle
The Crying Game
Gideon's Daughter
Fatherland
Spider
After Pilkington
Mountain Language
The Last Anniversary
Sweet As You Are
Mapp and Lucia
Merlin's Apprentice
Enchanted April
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