Miranda Richardson

Miranda Richardson is an English actress. Known for her performances on stage and screen, she has 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 Globe Awards, 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.

In 2005, she appeared in the role of Rita Skeeter, the toxic Daily Prophet journalist in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire She later reprised the role of Rita Skeeter in a cameo in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010).