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Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958)  is an English actress who has worked in TV, Films, and Theatre.

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 Olivier Award for Best Actress for A Lie of the Mind.

Her films include Empire of the Sun, The Crying Game, The Apostle, Sleepy Hollow, Chicken Run, The Hours, Spider, The Phantom Of The Opera, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Young Victoria, Made in Dagenham, Belle, and Stronger.

Her television credits include Blackadder, A Dance to the Music of Time, Merlin, The Lost Prince, Gideon's Daughter, the sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle, Rubicon  and Good Omens .

Richardson has been nominated for Academy Award for Damage and Tom & Viv. A six-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 Globe Awards, winning twice for Enchanted April  and the TV film Fatherland.

Early life
Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire. She recalls "a cinema about 50 yards from my house. So Saturday mornings were spent with The ABC Minors: the Saturday cinema club with the theme song set to the tune of Blaze Away by Abe Holzmann, a red ball bouncing over the lyrics so you could sing along. As I got older, I would go to the cinema by myself to watch matinees of westerns and historical Technicolor dramas."