Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English stage, film and television actress. She is a two-time Academy Award nominee and has won a BAFTA Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Richardson began her career on stage and made her West End debut in the 1980 play Moving. She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in the 1985 film Dance with a Stranger. In 1987, she received a Best Actress Olivier Award nomination for the Royal Court production of A Lie of the Mind. On television, she appeared in the sitcom Blackadder (1986-89). She won a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1992 film Damage. For that film and 1994s Tom and Viv, she received Academy Award nominations. She also won Golden Globe Awards for the 1992 film Enchanted April and the 1994 TV film Fatherland. Her other films include Empire of the Sun (1987), The Crying Game (1992), The Apostle (1997), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Spider (2002), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Made in Dagenham (2010), while her other television credits include the miniseries A Dance to the Music of Time (1997), Merlin (1998), The Lost Prince (2003) and the sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (2007).