Miranda Richardson was nominated for Damage and Tom and Viv, both serious dramatic roles about women damaged by the men around them.
She is equally known for Blackadder, playing Queen Elizabeth as a homicidal child, which is one of the great British television comic performances and completely at odds with the film work.
Dance with a Stranger, The Crying Game and Sleepy Hollow fill out the range. She works selectively and has been notably private.
Dwayne JohnsonSouthland Tales (2006) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Richard Kelly took an unfinished cut to Cannes because nobody turns down a competition slot, was booed, recut it, and watched it earn under four hundred thousand dollars.…
Christina RicciSleepy Hollow is Tim Burton's 1999 American gothic horror film loosely adapting Washington Irving's 1820 short story. The Burton directorial approach combines sustained gothic atmospheric content with effective horror execution that the director's earlier comedic productions had not consistently delivered.
Helena Bonham CarterMerlin is the NBC miniseries that retold the Arthurian legend from the wizard's perspective. Miranda Richardson plays Mab, the old goddess fighting against Christianity's spread through Britain.
Jane HorrocksChicken Run is one of the great British animated productions of the early twenty-first century and the feature debut of Aardman Animations as substantial. Aardman Animations had been working primarily in short subject and television animated production before Chicken Run.
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