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Miranda Otto
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Miranda Otto
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1967-12-16,Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Gender
Female
Biography
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).

Filmography

War of the Worlds

6.578

War of the Worlds
2005-06-28

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

8.432

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002-12-18

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

8.505

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003-12-17

6

Human Nature
2001-09-12

In My Father's Den

6.9

In My Father's Den
2004-06-11

What Lies Beneath

6.4

What Lies Beneath
2000-07-21

5.3

Doctor Sleep
2002-08-16

Flight of the Phoenix

6

Flight of the Phoenix
2004-12-17

The Thin Red Line

7.442

The Thin Red Line
1998-12-23

Danny Deckchair

6.1

Danny Deckchair
2003-05-16

The Last Days of Chez Nous

5.8

The Last Days of Chez Nous
1992-10-08

6.7

Blessed
2009-09-10

6.5

The Jack Bull
1999-04-17

Julie Walking Home

5.6

Julie Walking Home
2002-09-04

6.1

Love Serenade
1996-10-10

6

In Her Skin
2009-03-14

6.7

South Solitary
2010-07-29

5.7

The Turning
2013-09-25

3.8

Kin
2000-07-05

5.8

The Well
1997-05-14

I, Frankenstein

5.4

I, Frankenstein
2014-01-22

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

6.3

Doing Time for Patsy Cline
1997-09-25

In the Winter Dark

5.4

In the Winter Dark
1998-09-10

5.5

Initiation
1987-06-20

Reaching for the Moon

6.6

Reaching for the Moon
2013-02-09

True Love and Chaos

3.6

True Love and Chaos
1997-05-22

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

6.5

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024-12-05

6.5

The Homesman
2014-05-18

Daydream Believer

6.7

Daydream Believer
1992-08-07

The Nostradamus Kid

4.9

The Nostradamus Kid
1993-10-14

Dead Letter Office

6.9

Dead Letter Office
1998-08-20

7.139

Talk to Me
2023-07-26

1

At the Gates
2023-11-03

My Freaky Family

7

My Freaky Family
2024-04-19

6.3

The Daughter
2015-10-09

Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe

7.3

Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe
2020-10-23

3.6

Emma's War
1986-12-26

Revealed: Otto By Otto

7

Revealed: Otto By Otto
2024-06-16

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

6.5

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004-12-14

Annabelle: Creation

6.6

Annabelle: Creation
2017-08-03

Sex Is a Four Letter Word

3

Sex Is a Four Letter Word
1995-10-01

Dance Academy: The Movie

7.1

Dance Academy: The Movie
2017-04-06

5.9

Zoe
2018-07-19

6.2

The Chaperone
2019-03-29

The Three-Legged Fox

7.8

The Three-Legged Fox
2004-02-01

4.4

The 13th Floor
1988-05-31

6

The Silence
2019-05-16

7.1

Mabo
2012-06-10

6

Schadenfreude
2009-02-21

6.8

The Raid
2017-12-12

5.2

Downhill
2020-02-06

6.9

Locke & Key
2011-01-01

The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision

6.4

The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision
2003-12-26

The Portable Door

6.5

The Portable Door
2023-03-23

The Pout-Pout Fish

5.5

The Pout-Pout Fish
2026-01-01

0

The Fox
2026-11-26

The Making of 'The Two Towers'

8.8

The Making of 'The Two Towers'
2006-08-29

The Making of 'The Return of the King'

8.8

The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2006-08-29

In the Grip of Terror: Making Talk to Me

7

In the Grip of Terror: Making Talk to Me
2023-10-03

0

Fog City

The Two Towers: Designing Middle-earth

0

The Two Towers: Designing Middle-earth
2003-11-18

6.7

Police Rescue
1991-02-14

5.9

Cashmere Mafia
2008-01-06

The Unusual Suspects

6.2

The Unusual Suspects
2021-06-03

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

7.7

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012-02-24

The Moth Effect

4.1

The Moth Effect
2021-07-30

4.4

True Colours
2022-07-04

7.3

Fires
2021-09-26

The Flying Doctors

6.6

The Flying Doctors
1986-05-15

6.1

24: Legacy
2017-02-05

5.4

Rake
2014-01-23

The Way We Live Now

7.7

The Way We Live Now
2001-11-11

6.4

The Clearing
2023-05-24

Ladies in Black

3.2

Ladies in Black
2024-06-16

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

8.2

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
2018-10-26

Through My Eyes

8

Through My Eyes
2004-10-23

7.6

Homeland
2011-10-02

Heroes II: The Return

7.5

Heroes II: The Return
1991-12-15

6.6

Koala Man
2023-01-09

5.5

Reunited Apart
2020-04-27

Thou Shalt Not Steal

5.7

Thou Shalt Not Steal
2024-10-17

The Starter Wife

4.4

The Starter Wife
2007-05-31

6.4

Wellmania
2023-03-29

The Great White

0

The Great White

0

Tough Love