Miranda Richardson Biography (3)
The British-born actress proved her versatility with impressive back-to-back performances in Mike Newell's Enchanted April, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, which earned her a Golden Globe Award, and Louis Malle's Damage, for which she received an Oscar nomination.
In Tom and Viv, Richardson portrayed the gifted but troubled Vivienne Haigh-Wood, the first wife of poet T.S. Eliot. For her performance, she received a Golden Globe nomination and her second Academy Award nomination, as well as the National Board of Review Best Actress Award. Richardson's other film credits include The Apostle, Evening Star, Kansas City, Century, The Innocent, The Mad Monkey, The Bachelor, Sleepy Hollow, Get Carter and The Designated Mourner. Richardson will next be seen in David Cronenberg's Spider and Conor McPherson's The Actors.
On television, Richardson starred in the HBO film Fatherland, for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Her extensive work for the BBC includes the series Blackadder and the political thriller Die Kinder. Richardson also starred in the BBC productions of Christopher Columbus, Redemption, Old Times, Secret Friends and Sweet As You Are. She co-starred in Hallmark Hall of Fame's Merlin, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, and Alice, the Hallmark Hall of Fame version of Alice in Wonderland. Other credits include Snow White, Showtime's The Big Brass Ring and the BBC's A Dance to the Music of Time.
Among Richardson's stage credits are Wallace Shawn's The Designated Mourner at the Royal National Theatre, Harold Pinter's Mountain Language, Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, David Mamet's Edmond and The Changeling, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Terry Johnson's Insignificance, and Orlando, a one-woman piece working with Robert Wilson.
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