Miranda Richardson

Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) 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 and two Golden Globes, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, three British Academy Television Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

After graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Richardson began her career in 1979 and made her West End debut in the 1981 play Moving, before being nominated for the 1987 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for A Lie of the Mind.

Richardson has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Damage and the Academy Award for Best Actress for Tom & Viv. 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 Globes, winning twice for Enchanted April and the TV film Fatherland.

Her other films include Empire of the Sun, The Crying Game, Sleepy Hollow, The Hours, and Spider. She also played a comedic version of Queen Elizabeth I in all six episodes of the sitcom Blackadder II, and appeared in one episode each of Blackadder the Third and Blackadder Goes Forth.

Richardson also voiced Mrs Melisha Tweedy in DreamWorks Pictures and Aardman's 2000 stop-motion film Chicken Run. She later reprised the role in its 2023 Netflix sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.