Miranda Richardson (Born 3 March 1958, in Southport, Lancashire) is a British actress, commonly regarded when one of a finest acting talents of her generation, & noted for her distinctive ability to deeply delve into a minds of the characters she plays.

Mini Biography
A 2nd girl of middle-class parents, she had the talent for acting from either an early age.

Richardson got originally meant to learn veterinary medicine, but her squeamishness processed this impossible. She enrolled at a Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where she exposed alongside Daniel Day-Lewis. Inside 1981, she made her stage debut inside Moving at a Queen's Theatre in London.

3 years late, she mass produced her large screen debut when platinum blond nightspot hostess Ruth Ellis, the survive woman to become hang on the United Kingdom around Mike Newell's critically acclaimed biographical drama, Dance with a Stranger. Her performance therein film won her lot praise, & in a year, she got been cast by Steven Spielberg to appear within his World War II drama Empire of the Sun (1987).

Richardson is possibly better known for her role when infantile Queen Elizabeth I, aka Queenie, in the cult British comedy Blackadder. More television roles include a cattish Pamela Flitton inside A Dance to the Music of Time (1997), Miss Gilchrist in St. Ives (1998), Bettina (the obsessive compulsive interior decorator) in Absolutely Fabulous, The Wicked Stepmother Hallmark's "Snow White: The Fairest of Them All", along with Kristin Kreuk (2001) and the emotionally repressed Queen Mary in The Lost Prince (2003).

Too as a total of high profile supporting roles in the cinema, including Vanessa Bell in The Hours, Lady Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow and Patsy Carpenter in The Evening Star, she has also won acclamation for her performances in The Crying Game and Enchanted April, for which she won a Golden Globe, beating a quartet of Hollywood heavyweights: Geena Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep.

2 Academy Award nominations (for Damage and Tom & Viv) have not altered the actress's modesty. She refuses to discuss her personal life withinside interviews, & will require two leading & supporting roles in the kind of different genres.

Her extensive film credits stand involved worthy stints inside the total of critically acclaimed indie features, among the children Robert Altman's Kansas City (1996), Robert Duvall's The Apostle (1997) and Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah (2005).

Further recently, Richardson appeared when Queen Rosalind of Denmark in the Julia Stiles vehicle The Prince and Me, and a ballet mistress Madame Giry in the long-awaited film version of The Phantom of the Opera, starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum. She hwhen since sign in to come out as Rita Skeeter, the toxic Daily Prophet journalist in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, to be freed inside November 2005.

Miranda typically collaberates using a directors Mike Newell (Dance using the Alien, Enchanted April & Harry Potter & a Goblet of Fire) & Stephen Poliakoff (Century, The Wasted Prince, ''Gideon's Girl), & she has co-starred sustaining actors Michael Gambon (Mountain Language, Sleepy Hollow, The Misplaced Prince, A Actors, Harry Potter) & Robbie Coltrane (Blackadder, The Comic Strip Presents, Eat a Rich people, Alice around Wonderland, Harry Potter, Provoked) in many occassions.

She presently lives within her London home, and likewise has the Wiltshire retreat, with her ii cats, two dogs and an axolotl.

Declined Roles
Based on data from a Internet Movie Database, Miranda Richardson has turned down roles in films like Fatal Attraction (Glenn Close), Waterworld (Sinead Cusack), Rob Roy (Jessica Lange), Howard's End (Emma Thompson), and a plum recurring role in hit ABC TV show Desperate Housewives in 2005. She was too considered as a major competitor per studios, for the role of the White Witch in the 2005 fantasy adventure The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Projects in Production
Miranda has a total of film & television projects around various stages of production: Midsummer Dream (Completed) ~ Queen Titania (voice) Wah-Wah (Completed) ~ Lauren Compton Gideon's Daughter [TV] (Post-Production) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Post-Production) ~ Rita Skeeter Provoked (Post-Production) ~ Veronica Scott Merlin's Apprentice [TV] (Filming) ~ Queen Mab Bad Blood (2006) (Pre-Production) ~ Valma Stockton Southland Tales (Pre-Production) Spinning Into Butter (Pre-Production) ~ Dean Catherine Kenney

Filmography
Dance with a Stranger (1985) Ruth Ellis Underworld (1985) Oriel The Innocent (1985) Mary Turner Blackadder II (1985) (TV) Queenie After Pilkington (1986) Penny The Death of the Heart (1986) Daphne Heccomb Eat the Rich (1987) DHSS Blonde Empire of the Sun (1987) Mrs Victor Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage (1989) Early Bird The Bachelor (1990) Frederica The Fool (1990) Columbine/Rosalind/Ophelia Twisted Obsession (1990) Marilyn Old Times (1990) Anna Die Kinder (1990) (TV) Sidonie Reiger The Crying Game'' (1992) Jude O'Hara Damage (1992) Ingrid Fleming Enchanted April (1992) Rose Arbuthnot Century (1993) Clara The Line, the Cross and the Curve (1993) Mysterious woman Tom & Viv (1994) Vivienne Haigh-Wood Fatherland (1994) Charlie Maguire The Night and the Moment (1994) Julie The Evening Star (1996) Patsy Carpenter Kansas City (1996) Carolyn Stilton The Designated Mourner (1997) Judy Saint-Ex (1997) Consuelo The Apostle (1997) Toosie St. Ives (1998) Miss Gilchrist Merlin (1998) Queen Mab/The Lady of the Lake The Big Brass Ring (1999) Dinah Pellarin Sleepy Hollow (1999) Lady Mary Van Tassel/Crone Get Carter (2000) Gloria Carter Chicken Run (2000) Mrs Tweedy The Hours (2002) Vanessa Bell Spider (2002) Yvonne/Mrs. Cleg The Lost Prince (2003) (TV) Queen Mary The Prince and Me (2004) Queen Rosalind Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004) Eva Braun The Phantom of the Opera (2004) Madame Giry

In the Theatre
Prior to making the title for herself as the screen star, Miranda Richardson experienced antecedently led a enormously successful & extensive theatre career. Starting retired by using puerile performances around Cinderella (a name part) & ''Lord Arthur's Saville Crime (when Sybil Merton) at a Southport Dramatic Club, a immature histrion enrolled at a Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, making her stage debut in Moving'' at a Queen's Theatre, London. Shortly later on, Richardson appeared around reportory theatre, until she noticed recognition in the West End for a series of extremely praised stage performances, at long last getting an Olivier Award nomination for her performance in The Lie of the Mind.

Repertory Theatre Savage Amusement (Hazel) Stags & Hens (Linda) A lot Our Sons (Ann) Sororal Feelings (Brenda) Ten Days Table (Phillipa) Whose Life would it be Anyway (Kay Sadler) Play it Again Sam (Linda Christie) Tom Jones (Sophie American) Educating Rita (Rita)

Sales person Theatre Moving (Jane Gladwin) A Table of the 2 Horseman (Katie Wyld) ''World health organization's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Honey) A Maids (Madame) Insignificance (A Actress) Life of Einstein (?) Edmond (Glenna) The Lie of the Mind (Beth) A Changeling (Beatrice-Joanna) Mountain Language (Fille) Etta Jenks (Etta Jenks) A Intended Lamenter (Judy) Orlando (Orlando) Aunty Dan & Lemon (Aunty Dan) A Play What I personally Wrote'' (Herself)

Awards & Nominations

Academy Award: (nominee) Damage (1993)

Academy Award: (nominee) Tom & Viv (1995)

BAFTA: (nominee) After Pilkington (1988)

BAFTA: (winner) Damage (1993)

BAFTA: (nominee) The Crying Game (1993)

BAFTA: (nominee) Tom & Viv (1994)

BAFTA: (nominee) A Dance to the Music of Time (1998)

BAFTA: (nominee) The Lost Prince (2004)

Golden Globe: (winner) Enchanted April (1993)

Golden Globe: (nominee) Damage (1993)

Golden Globe: (nominee) Tom & Viv (1995)

Golden Globe: (winner) Fatherland (1995)

Golden Globe: (nominee) Merlin (1999)

Golden Globe: (nominee) The Big Brass Ring (2000)

Golden Globe: (nominee) The Lost Prince (2005)

National Board of Review Best Actress winner Tom & Viv (1994)