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Miranda Otto

Miranda Otto

Miranda Otto (born December 16, 1967) is an Australian actress. The daughter of actors Lindsay and Barry Otto and the sister of actress Gracie Otto, she began acting at age eighteen, and has performed in a variety of independent and major studio films. Her first major film appearance was in the 1986 film Emma's War, in which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II. In 1996, director Shirley Barrett cast Otto as a shy waitress in the film Love Serenade. She starred in the 1997 films Doing Time for Patsy Cline and The Well, for which earned her third Australian Film Institute nomination. Her next project was the romantic comedy Dead Letter Office (1998). The film was Otto's first with her father, Barry, who makes a brief appearance. Later that year, she starred in the film In the Winter Dark, directed by James Bogle, for which she was nominated for her fourth Australian Film Institute Award. After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian films, she gained Hollywood's attention after appearing in supporting roles in The Thin Red Line (1998) and What Lies Beneath (2000). In 2001, she was cast as a naturalist in the comedy Human Nature and appeared in the BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now, as a strong-willed American Southerner. Her breakthrough role came in 2002, when she portrayed Éowyn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Her character was introduced in the trilogy's second film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in 2002 and appeared in the third film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the following year. Her performance earned her an Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Director Steven Spielberg, impressed by Otto's performance in The Lord of the Rings, called her to ask if she would play opposite Tom Cruise in the big-budget science fiction film War of the Worlds (2005). Otto, pregnant at the time, believed she would have to turn down the role, but the script was reworked to accommodate her. Her next project was playing the lead in the Australian film Danny Deckchair (2003). She then took on the Australian television miniseries Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story (2004). At the 2005 Logie Awards, Otto won Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for her role. In 2007, Otto starred as Cricket Stewart, the wife of a successful director, in the television miniseries The Starter Wife. She had a starring role in the 2008 American television series Cashmere Mafia, and Australian films such as In Her Skin and Blessed (2009). She starred opposite Stephanie Sigman and Anthony LaPaglia in the horror prequel Annabelle: Creation. She portrayed Zelda Spellman in Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2020). She made her theatrical debut in the 1986 production of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant for the Sydney Theatre Company.[28] Three more theatrical productions for the Sydney Theatre Company followed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2002, she returned to the stage playing Nora Helmer in A Doll's House opposite her future husband Peter O'Brien. Otto's performance earned her a 2003 Helpmann Award nomination and the MO Award for "Best Female Actor in a Play". Her next stage role was in the psychological thriller Boy Gets Girl (2005).

Personal information

Birthday

1967-12-16

Birth Place

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Movies and TV shows :

poster

24: Legacy

2017

6.1

TV
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

2004

6.0

Movie
Annabelle: Creation

Annabelle: Creation

2017

6.6

Movie
At the Gates

At the Gates

2023

0.0

Movie
Blessed

Blessed

2009

6.5

Movie
poster

Cashmere Mafia

2008

6.1

TV
poster

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

2018

8.2

TV
Dance Academy: The Movie

Dance Academy: The Movie

2017

7.2

Movie
Danny Deckchair

Danny Deckchair

2003

6.0

Movie
Daydream Believer

Daydream Believer

1992

5.5

Movie
Dead Letter Office

Dead Letter Office

1998

6.4

Movie
Directing Annabelle: Creation

Directing Annabelle: Creation

2017

9.0

Movie
Doctor Sleep

Doctor Sleep

2002

5.1

Movie
Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

1997

6.2

Movie
Downhill

Downhill

2020

5.3

Movie
Emma's War

Emma's War

1986

3.0

Movie
Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe

Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe

2020

7.3

Movie
Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories

Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories

2003

8.5

Movie
poster

Fires

2021

7.4

TV
Flight of the Phoenix

Flight of the Phoenix

2004

6.0

Movie
poster

Heroes II: The Return

1991

8.0

TV
poster

Homeland

2011

7.6

TV
Human Nature

Human Nature

2001

6.0

Movie
I, Frankenstein

I, Frankenstein

2014

5.4

Movie
In Her Skin

In Her Skin

2009

6.0

Movie
In My Father's Den

In My Father's Den

2004

7.0

Movie
In the Winter Dark

In the Winter Dark

1998

5.6

Movie
Initiation

Initiation

1987

4.9

Movie
Julie Walking Home

Julie Walking Home

2002

5.6

Movie
Kin

Kin

2000

3.5

Movie
poster

Koala Man

2023

6.6

TV
poster

Ladies in Black

2024

2.0

TV
Locke & Key

Locke & Key

2011

6.8

Movie
Love Serenade

Love Serenade

1996

6.1

Movie
Mabo

Mabo

2012

7.6

Movie
poster

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

2012

7.7

TV
My Freaky Family

My Freaky Family

2024

4.5

Movie
poster

Police Rescue

1991

6.4

TV
poster

Rake

2014

5.3

TV
Reaching for the Moon

Reaching for the Moon

2013

6.6

Movie
poster

Reunited Apart

2020

5.5

TV
Revealed: Otto By Otto

Revealed: Otto By Otto

2024

7.0

Movie
Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude

2009

0.0

Movie
Sex Is a Four Letter Word

Sex Is a Four Letter Word

1995

1.0

Movie
South Solitary

South Solitary

2010

6.9

Movie
Talk to Me

Talk to Me

2023

7.2

Movie
The 13th Floor

The 13th Floor

1988

4.6

Movie
The Chaperone

The Chaperone

2019

6.2

Movie
poster

The Clearing

2023

6.4

TV
The Daughter

The Daughter

2015

6.4

Movie
poster

The Flying Doctors

1986

6.1

TV
The Homesman

The Homesman

2014

6.5

Movie
The Jack Bull

The Jack Bull

1999

6.4

Movie
The Last Days of Chez Nous

The Last Days of Chez Nous

1992

5.9

Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003

8.5

Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002

8.4

Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

2024

6.5

Movie
poster

The Moth Effect

2021

4.0

TV
The Nostradamus Kid

The Nostradamus Kid

1993

4.6

Movie
The Portable Door

The Portable Door

2023

6.5

Movie
The Pout-Pout Fish

The Pout-Pout Fish

0.0

Movie
The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision

The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision

2003

6.4

Movie
The Raid

The Raid

2017

7.0

Movie
The Silence

The Silence

2019

6.0

Movie
The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line

1998

7.5

Movie
The Three-Legged Fox

The Three-Legged Fox

2004

7.5

Movie
The Turning

The Turning

2013

5.9

Movie
poster

The Unusual Suspects

2021

6.3

TV
poster

The Way We Live Now

2001

7.7

TV
The Well

The Well

1997

5.4

Movie
poster

Thou Shalt Not Steal

2024

5.7

TV
poster

Through My Eyes

2004

9.0

TV
poster

True Colours

2022

4.9

TV
True Love and Chaos

True Love and Chaos

1997

3.5

Movie
War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds

2005

6.5

Movie
poster

Wellmania

2023

6.8

TV
What Lies Beneath

What Lies Beneath

2000

6.4

Movie
Zoe

Zoe

2018

5.9

Movie