
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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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · 27K votes
Movie8.4AdventureFantasyFrodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor.
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2002 · 24K votes
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1998 · 3.4K votes
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2014 · 2.1K votes
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2019 · 1.7K votes
Movie6.5WesternDramaWhen three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs, to join her. The unlikely pair and the three women head east, where a waiting minister and his wife have offered to take the women in. But the group first must traverse the harsh Nebraska Territories marked by stark beauty, psychological peril and constant threat.
The Homesman
2014 · 908 votes
Movie6.0ActionAdventureWhen an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.
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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
Movie6.6DramaRomanceIn 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.
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Downhill
2020 · 322 votes
Movie7.0AnimationFamilyOn the cusp of her 13th birthday, Betty Flood – budding musician and magical being – just wants to be like the rest of her fabulous, but very different family, so why is her magical Mum so against it? As Betty wrestles with this, she also learns the amazing truth about her family and discovers that the not so normal, the magical and the musical are all a part of her fabulously freaky family. It's very freaky, so be freaked freaky ahh deaky peaky neaky seaky peaky poo.
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
MovieComedyFantasyAn affable foxhunter encounters a talking Fox who offers him an opportunity to transform his fiancée into the perfect woman.
The Fox
2026
Movie5.3CrimeHorrorWhile treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.
Doctor Sleep
2002 · 68 votes
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The Chaperone
2019 · 33 votes
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TV7.6DramaWar & PoliticsCIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.
Homeland
2011 · 2.7K votes
TV8.2MysterySci-Fi & FantasyMagic and mischief collide as half-human, half-witch Sabrina navigates between two worlds: mortal teen life and her family's legacy, the Church of Night.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
2018 · 3.8K votes
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The Flying Doctors
1986 · 17 votes
TV7.7CrimeDramaOur lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012 · 179 votes
TV6.7Action & AdventureDramaPolice Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.
Police Rescue
1991 · 13 votes
TV6.2CrimeDramaThe story of military hero Eric Carter's return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.
24: Legacy
2017 · 282 votes
TV5.5Talk ShowJosh Gad reunites the cast and crews of various classic movies, and discusses the the films in hilarious yet heartfelt conversations.
Reunited Apart
2020 · 2 votes
TV4.4ComedyDramaThe events of one woman's life following her divorce after years of marriage to a Hollywood studio executive. Based on the best-selling novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer.
The Starter Wife
2007 · 7 votes
TV5.4DramaComedyKeegan Deane's staggering lack of discretion and inability to self-censor land him the law cases that nobody else will touch. He always tries to do the right thing, but at the same time struggles to save himself from the many self-destructive elements that plague his own life, including women and gambling.
Rake
2014 · 33 votes
TV6.4DramaWhen a local girl goes missing, a woman is forced to face the demons from her traumatic childhood.
The Clearing
2023 · 71 votes
TV5.9DramaComedyFour ambitious and sexy women, who've been best friends since business school, try to balance their glamorous and demanding careers with their complex personal lives in the city that never sleeps. They've created their own "boys club" to protect each other and discuss their ups and downs as they try to have it all. What good is it to break the glass ceiling without girlfriends to share in your success?
Cashmere Mafia
2008 · 15 votes
TV7.1DramaInspired by true events, the story of everyday Australians at the front line of the devastating fires of the 2019-2020 Australian summer.
Fires
2021 · 13 votes
TV6.6AnimationComedyA powerless superhero and family patriarch in an Australian suburb lives a not-so-secret identity as Koala Man while possessing a burning passion to snuff out petty crime and bring order the community.
Koala Man
2023 · 50 votes
TV7.7DramaAnthony Trollope’s epic tale of Victorian power and corruption, set in the 1870s. Within weeks of his arrival in London, financier Augustus Melmotte announces a railway is to be built from Salt Lake City to the Gulf of Mexico and entices distinguished members of England's land-rich, cash-poor aristocracy into his web. Many are eager to sell their ailing land parcels to afford moving to London proper and naïve speculators are all lured in with promises of an instant fortune.
The Way We Live Now
2001 · 25 votes
TV4.1ComedyA satirical six-part sketch comedy.
The Moth Effect
2021 · 7 votes
TV6.4ComedyDramaLiv, a human tornado, is forced to rethink her live fast die young philosophy after a major health scare. She throws herself into a wellness journey, trying everything she can to reclaim her old life.
Wellmania
2023 · 50 votes
TV7.5DramaWar & PoliticsHeroes II: the Return is a 1991 Australian mini-series about Operation Rimau during World War II. The true and tragic story of Operation Rimau, one of the most daring raids of WW2. In September 1944 Ivan Lyon and 22 Australian and British troops attempted to blow up Japanese ships in Singapore. Just 10 miles away from the target they are discovered and so begin a long and desperate bid to escape to Australia. The series shows how after the war it is revealled that 13 men were killed during the pursuit and that the remaining 10 were murdered by the Japanese in a war crime. Tragically this was covered up and their killers were never charged while the men themselves never received any honours for their heroism.
Heroes II: The Return
1991 · 2 votes
TV3.2DramaSydney, 1961. The women who work in Goodes ladieswear face tumultuous lives navigating societal shifts and personal challenges amidst the fashion transformation of the sixties.
Ladies in Black
2024 · 5 votes
TV6.2CrimeComedyFollows the theft of a multi-million-dollar necklace and the women from different walks of life who come together to ensure that justice is served.
The Unusual Suspects
2021 · 20 votes
TV4.4CrimeDramaDetective Toni Alma is assigned to investigate a suspicious car accident in Perdar Theendar, the Indigenous community she left as a child and has had little to do with over the years.
True Colours
2022 · 9 votes
TV8.0DramaThe true life story of Lindy Chamberlain and her recount of a dingo taking her baby
Through My Eyes
2004 · 2 votes
TV5.7DramaComedyOn a search for the truth behind a family secret, young Aboriginal Australian delinquent Robyn escapes from juvenile detention and teams up with preacher's son Gidge. Together, they travel to Adelaide seeking answers, while in pursuit are a couple AFP officers, as well as Gidge's father and a madam.
Thou Shalt Not Steal
2024 · 13 votes
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Tough Love follows a mother determined to prepare her three very unprepared adult children for life without her.
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A disgraced attorney's life takes an unexpected turn when he must defend a death row inmate - who happens to be a dog. The bizarre case offers him a chance at personal redemption.