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Miranda Otto

Miranda Otto

Actor · b. 1967 · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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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    War of the Worlds

    2005 · 9.5K votes

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    Talk to Me

    2023 · 4K votes

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    The Thin Red Line

    1998 · 3.4K votes

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    Annabelle: Creation

    2017 · 6.1K votes

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    The Pout-Pout Fish

    2026 · 17 votes

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    What Lies Beneath

    2000 · 2.1K votes

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    I, Frankenstein

    2014 · 2.1K votes

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    The Silence

    2019 · 1.7K votes

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    The Homesman

    2014 · 908 votes

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    Flight of the Phoenix

    2004 · 971 votes

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    Zoe

    2018 · 452 votes

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    The Portable Door

    2023 · 293 votes

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    The Jack Bull

    1999 · 104 votes

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    2013 · 104 votes

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    Downhill

    2020 · 322 votes

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    My Freaky Family

    2024 · 6 votes

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    Human Nature

    2001 · 305 votes

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    In Her Skin

    2009 · 135 votes

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    Doctor Sleep

    2002 · 68 votes

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    The Chaperone

    2019 · 33 votes

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    Homeland

    2011 · 2.7K votes

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    The Flying Doctors

    1986 · 17 votes

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    Police Rescue

    1991 · 13 votes

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    24: Legacy

    2017 · 282 votes

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    Reunited Apart

    2020 · 2 votes

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    The Starter Wife

    2007 · 7 votes

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    Rake

    2014 · 33 votes

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    The Clearing

    2023 · 71 votes

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    Cashmere Mafia

    2008 · 15 votes

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    Fires

    2021 · 13 votes

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    Koala Man

    2023 · 50 votes

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    The Way We Live Now

    2001 · 25 votes

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    The Moth Effect

    2021 · 7 votes

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    Wellmania

    2023 · 50 votes

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    Heroes II: The Return

    1991 · 2 votes

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    2024 · 5 votes

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    2021 · 20 votes

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    True Colours

    2022 · 9 votes

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    2004 · 2 votes

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    2024 · 13 votes

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