Miranda Richardson Academy Awards:
Nominated: Best Actress 1994 Tom & Viv
Nominated: Best Supporting Actress 1992 Damage
BAFTA Awards:
Best Supporting Actress, Damage (1993)
Golden Globe Awards:
Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy, Enchanted April (1993)
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, Fatherland (1995)

Perhaps she is best known for her television role as infantile Queen Elizabeth I, aka Queenie, in the British comedy Blackadder II. Other television roles include the bitchy Pamela Flitton in A Dance to the Music of Time (1997), Miss Gilchrist in St. Ives (1998), Bettina (the obsessive compulsive interior decorator) in Absolutely Fabulous, The Wicked Stepmother Hallmark's ‘Snow White: The Fairest Of Them All’, along with Kristin Kreuk (2001) and the emotionally repressed Queen Mary in The Lost Prince (2003).

Her big screen debut was as platinum blonde nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom in Mike Newell's critically acclaimed biographical drama, Dance With A Stranger.

Her performance won her much praise, and within a year she had been cast by Steven Spielberg to appear in his World War II drama Empire of the Sun (1987).

She has undertaken many high profile supporting roles in the cinema, including Vanessa Bell in The Hours, Lady Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow and Patsy Carpenter in The Evening Star, she has also won acclaim for her performances in The Crying Game and Enchanted April, for which she won a Golden Globe, beating a quartet of Hollywood heavyweights: Geena Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep.

Other films include Robert Altman's Kansas City (1996), Robert Duvall's The Apostle (1997) and Richard E. Grant's Wah-Wah (2005). In 2002, Richardson wowed critics with a triple-role stint (as Mrs Cleg, Yvonne and Mrs Wilkinson in a hallucination) alongside Ralph Fiennes in David Cronenberg's acclaimed thriller Spider, a film that won her a bevy of international critics awards.

More recently, Richardson appeared as Queen Rosalind of Denmark in the Julia Stiles vehicle The Prince And Me, and the ballet mistress Madame Giry in the long-awaited film version of The Phantom Of The Opera, starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum.

Her latest screen incarnation is in the guise of Rita Skeeter, the toxic Daily Prophet journalist in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, released in November 2005.