Miranda Richardson is an English actress. Known for her performances on stage and screen across a wide range of dramatic and comedic roles, she has received numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) and two Golden Globes, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, an Actor Award, three BAFTA TV Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
After making her debut on stage in 1981, Richardson was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for the Sam Shepard's 1985 play A Lie of the Mind. At the very start of the next decade, she had her breakthrough on the screen thanks to the release of the period drama film Enchanted April (1991), the chrime thriller The Crying Game, and the romantic drama Damage (both 1992). She received a double nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for both Damage and The Crying Game, winning for the former, while Enchanted April won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Damage also earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. For her portrayal of Vivienne Haigh-Wood in the historical drama Tom & Viv (1994), she received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Her other film credits include the Tim Burton's horror Sleepy Hollow (1999), earning a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the period drama The Hours (2002), nominated for the Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, and the comedy-drama Made in Dagenham (2010), for which she received a fourth BAFTA Award nomination.
Richardson's television work features the BAFTA TV Award-nominated roles After Pilkington (1987), A Dance to the Music of Time (1997), and The Lost Prince (2003). She has also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for the television film Fatherland (1994), and received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for her performance as Queen Mab and the Lady of the Lake in Merlin (1998) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for the National Geographic's special Operation Orangutan (2015).
Awards and nominations Award Year Category Work Result Academy Awards 1993 Best Supporting Actress Damage 1995 Best Actress Tom & Viv Actor Awards 2003 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture 2003 Best Supporting Actress British Academy Film Awards 1993 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Damage 1994 Best Actress in a Leading Role Tom & Viv 2011 Best Actress in a Supporting Role Made in Dagenham British Academy Television Awards 1988 Best Actress After Pilkington 1998 2004 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 2000 Favorite Supporting Actress – Horror Sleepy Hollow Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1993 Best Supporting Actress 2004 Spider Chlotrudis Awards 2004 Best Supporting Actress Spider Critics' Choice Awards 2003 Best Acting Ensemble David di Donatello Awards 1986 Best Foreign Actress Dance with a Stranger Evening Standard British Film Awards 1986 Best Actress Dance with a Stranger Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2003 Best Supporting Actress Film Independent Spirit Awards 1998 Best Supporting Female Golden Globes 1993 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Enchanted April Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Damage 1995 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Tom & Viv Best Supporting Actress – Television Fatherland 1999 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Merlin 2000 Best Supporting Actress – Television 2005 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Laurence Olivier Awards 1987 Best Actress London Film Critics' Circle Awards 1994 British Actress of the Year Damage 2000 2003 Spider 2015 Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1992 Best Supporting Actress Damage Enchanted April National Board of Review Awards 1994 Best Actress Tom & Viv National Society of Film Critics Awards 1993 Best Supporting Actress Damage Enchanted April New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1993 Best Supporting Actress Damage Enchanted April Primetime Emmy Awards 2015 Outstanding Narrator Operation Orangutan RTS Programme Awards 1988 Best Performance – Female Screen Two: "Sweet as You Are" 1998 Best Actor – Female San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards 2002 Best Supporting Actress Spider Sant Jordi Awards 2003 Best Foreign Actress Spider Satellite Awards 1997 Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama 2003 Spider 2005 Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film 2006 Gideon's Daughter Saturn Awards 2000 Best Supporting Actress Sleepy Hollow Society of Texas Film Critics Awards 1996 Best Supporting Actress Kansas City Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2003 Best Supporting Actress Spider Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2010 Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film
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