Miranda Jane Richardson born 3 March 1958 is an English actor She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger 1985 and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Damage 1992 and Tom Viv 1994 A seventime BAFTA Award nominee she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Damage She has also been nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards winning twice for Enchanted April 1992 and the TV film Fatherland 1994 In 1996 one critic asserted that she is the greatest actress of our time in any medium after she appeared in Orlando at the Edinburgh Festival Richardson began her career in 1979 and made her West End debut in the 1981 play Moving before being nominated for the 1987 Olivier Award for Best Actress for A Lie of the Mind Her television credits include Blackadder 19861989 A Dance to the Music of Time 1997 Merlin 1998 The Lost Prince 2003 Gideons Daughter 2006 the sitcom The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle 2007 and Rubicon 2010 She was nominated for the 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator for Operation Orangutan Description above from the Wikipedia article Miranda Richardson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia