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Miranda Richardson was born in England on March 3rd 1958. She comes from Southport in Lancashire (near Liverpool), and has one sister, eight years her senior. Her parents and sister are not involved in the performing arts. At an early age, she performed in school plays, having shown a talent and desire to 'turn herself into' other people. She left school (Southport High School for Girls) at the age of 17, and originally intended becoming a vet. She also considered studying English literature in College, but decided to concentrate on drama and enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (as did many well-known British actors). After three years she graduated and moved into repertory theatre. Her many other theatre credits include such plays as %22Orlando,%22 %22Einstein,%22 %22Insignificance,%22 %22Educating Rita,%22 %22Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,%22 %22Stags and Hens,%22 %22Sisterly Feeling,%22 %22Tom Jones,%22 %22All My Sons,%22 %22Savage Amusement,%22 %22The Maids,%22 %22Edmond,%22 %22A Lie of the Mind%22 and %22Etta Jenks.%22 She has been honored for her work in both film and television. In 1995, she earned Academy Award®, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress for her performance in %22Tom & Viv.%22 Two years earlier, she had been acknowledged for her roles in three different films, garnering Oscar®, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for Louis Malle's %22Damage,%22 in addition to winning a Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Mike Newell's %22Enchanted April%22 and receiving a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Neil Jordan's %22The Crying Game.%22 In 1998, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Robert Duvall's %22The Apostle.%22 Richardson more recently starred with Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's %22Sleepy Hollow.%22 Her other film credits include the voice of Anna in the animated %22The King and I,%22 %22All For Love,%22 %22The Evening Star,%22 Robert Altman's %22Kansas City,%22 Mike Newell's %22Dance With a Stranger,%22 and Steven Spielberg's %22Empire of the Sun.%22 Also recognized for her work on television, Richardson won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the telefilm %22Fatherland,%22 and earned two more Golden Globe nominations for the Showtime movie %22The Big Brass Ring,%22 and the NBC miniseries %22Merlin.%22 She more recently starred as the Queen of Hearts in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of %22Alice in Wonderland,%22 and includes among her other credits %22Christopher Columbus – The Great Adventure,%22 %22The Storyteller: The Three Ravens,%22 %22Sweet as You Are,%22 %22The Master Builder,%22 %22After Pilkington,%22 %22A Woman of Substance,%22 %22Lost Property,%22 %22Sorrel & Son,%22 %22Lucky Jim,%22 %22Blackadder,%22 %22Death and the Heart%22 and %22The Demon Lover.%22
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