Miranda Richardson Scroll down for movie list. Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Talented British actress who made a phenomenal screen debut as Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in England, in Mike Newell's Dance With a Stranger (1985). A student of the Old Vic Drama School, Richardson appeared in many theatrical and TV productions, and has worked in such films as The Innocent (1985), Underworld (1986), Empire of the Sun (1987), and The Fool (1990). But in 1992, she dazzled critics and audiences alike in three successive roles that demonstrated her extraordinary versatility: as the depressed London housewife in Enchanted April (again with director Newell, in a sunnier mood), as the wife of a philandering Parliament minister in Louis Malle's Damage (for which she was Oscar-nominated), and as a cold-blooded IRA terrorist in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game Recent credits include Century (1993), the made-for-cable movie Fatherland and an emotional turn as T.S. Eliot's disturbed wife in Tom & Viv (both 1994), which earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination. The future for this gifted performer is limitless. |  |