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Miranda Otto
Miranda Otto is an Australian actress. After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian films, Otto gained attention in Hollywood during the 1990s after appearing in supporting roles in the films The Thin Red Line and What Lies Beneath. She rose to fame in the early 2000s for playing Éowyn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series, based on the classic fantasy novel of the sam…
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entertainment · Australian actress (born 1967) · actor · stage actor · film actor · also Miranda Otto, Otto
Born 16 December 1967 · Q294975
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s The Lord of the Rings film series in the anime fantasy film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, a prequel directed by Kenji Kamiyama, to which she served as the narrator. Theatre Otto made her theatrical debut in the 1986 production of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant for the Sydney Theatre Company. 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
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“s The Lord of the Rings film series in the anime fantasy film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, a prequel directed by Kenji Kamiyama, to which she served as the narrator. Theatre Otto made her theatrical debut in the 1986 production of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant for the Sydney Theatre Company. 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”
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Otto reprised her role as Éowyn from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series in the anime fantasy film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, a prequel directed by Kenji Kamiyama, to which she served a
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2015· 1 entry
Otto played Alison Carr, the CIA's Berlin station chief, in the fifth season of the American spy thriller series Homeland
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2013· 1 entry
Otto played the role of American poet Elizabeth Bishop opposite Glória Pires in Brazilian director Bruno Barreto’s Reaching for the Moon
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2007· 1 entry
Otto starred as Cricket Stewart, the wife of a successful director, in the television miniseries The Starter Wife
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2002· 2 entries
And appeared in the third film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the following year
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Returned to the stage playing Nora Helmer in A Doll's House opposite her future husband Peter O'Brien
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2001· 3 entries
Was cast as a naturalist in the comedy Human Nature
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And broadcast for the first time on Italian television in March 2009
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Otto appeared in the BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now, as a strong-willed American Southerner
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1999· 1 entry
Otto was cast as Éowyn in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, after Uma Thurman turned down the role
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1997· 1 entry
Otto began dating her Doing Time for Patsy Cline co-star Richard Roxburgh
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1996· 1 entry
Director Shirley Barrett cast Otto as a shy waitress in the film Love Serenade
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1995· 1 entry
Began to doubt her career choice as she failed to get the parts for which she auditioned
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1993· 1 entry
Otto co-starred with Noah Taylor in the sexually provocative comedy film The Nostradamus Kid, which was based on the memories of author Bob Ellis during the 1960s
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1991· 1 entry
As Nell Tiscowitz in The Girl Who Came Late, was her breakthrough role which brought her to the attention of the Australian film industry and the general public
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1990· 1 entry
Studied at National Institute of Dramatic Art (1990).
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1987· 1 entry
In which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II
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1986· 1 entry
At age 18 and appeared in a variety of independent and major studio films in Australia
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1982· 1 entry
Of killing her baby daughter, Azaria, in one of the country's most publicized murder trials
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1967· 1 entry
Born 1967-12-16.
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