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person_profile-Miranda Otto

Miranda Otto Age: 57

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Miranda Otto

Date of Birth:

Dec 16, 1967

Country of birth:

Australia

Biography of

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).

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Filmography of

Miranda Otto

Found 54 Movies in total

... 2024

... 2024

My Freaky Family

Aneska Flood ( Actor )

... 2024

At the Gates

Marianne Barris ( Actor )

... 2023

Talk to Me

Sue ( Actor )

Executive Producer

... 2023

The Portable Door

Countess Judy ( Actor )

... 2023

... 2020

Downhill

Charlotte ( Actor )

... 2020

... 2020

The Silence

Kelly Andrews ( Actor )

... 2019

... 2019

The Chaperone

Ruth St. Dennis ( Actor )

... 2019

... 2018

Zoe

The Designer ( Actor )

... 2018

... 2017

Annabelle: Creation

Esther Mullins ( Actor )

... 2017

Dance Academy: The Movie

Madeline Moncur ( Actor )

... 2017

The Daughter

Charlotte ( Actor )

... 2015

The Homesman

Theoline Belknap ( Actor )

... 2014

I, Frankenstein

Leonore ( Actor )

... 2014

The Turning

Sherry ( Actor )

... 2013

Reaching for the Moon

Elizabeth Bishop ( Actor )

... 2013

Mabo

Margaret White ( Actor )

... 2012

Locke & Key

Nina Locke ( Actor )

... 2011

South Solitary

Meredith Appleton ( Actor )

... 2010

Blessed

Bianca ( Actor )

... 2009

In Her Skin

Mrs. Barber ( Actor )

... 2009

War of the Worlds

Mary-Ann ( Actor )

... 2005

Flight of the Phoenix

Kelly ( Actor )

... 2004

In My Father's Den

Penny Prior ( Actor )

... 2004

The Three-Legged Fox

Ruth ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2003

Danny Deckchair

Glenda Lake ( Actor )

... 2003

... 2002

Julie Walking Home

Julie Makowsky ( Actor )

... 2002

Doctor Sleep

Clara Strother ( Actor )

... 2002

Human Nature

Gabrielle ( Actor )

... 2001

What Lies Beneath

Mary Feur ( Actor )

... 2000

Kin

Anna ( Actor )

... 2000

The Jack Bull

Cora Redding ( Actor )

... 1999

The Thin Red Line

Marty Bell ( Actor )

... 1998

In the Winter Dark

Ronnie ( Actor )

... 1998

Dead Letter Office

Alice Walsh ( Actor )

... 1998

... 1997

True Love and Chaos

Mimi ( Actor )

... 1997

The Well

Katherine ( Actor )

... 1997

Love Serenade

Dimity Hurley ( Actor )

... 1996

... 1995

The Nostradamus Kid

Jennie O'Brien ( Actor )

... 1993

... 1992

Daydream Believer

Nell Tiscowitz ( Actor )

... 1992

The 13th Floor

Rebecca ( Actor )

... 1988

Initiation

Stevie ( Actor )

... 1987

Emma's War

Emma Grange ( Actor )

... 1986