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Miranda Otto‌

Gender

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Birthday

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Popularity

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Miranda Otto

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Miranda Otto

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1967-12-16

Popularity

star26.0

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).

Movie Credits

War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds‌
star6.5
calendar 2005

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers‌
star8.4
calendar 2002

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King‌
star8.5
calendar 2003

Human Nature

Human Nature‌
star6.0
calendar 2001

In My Father's Den

In My Father's Den‌
star7.0
calendar 2004

What Lies Beneath

What Lies Beneath‌
star6.4
calendar 2000

Doctor Sleep

Doctor Sleep‌
star5.1
calendar 2002

Flight of the Phoenix

Flight of the Phoenix‌
star6.0
calendar 2004

The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line‌
star7.5
calendar 1998

Danny Deckchair

Danny Deckchair‌
star6.0
calendar 2003

The Last Days of Chez Nous

The Last Days of Chez Nous‌
star5.9
calendar 1992

Blessed

Blessed‌
star6.5
calendar 2009

The Jack Bull

The Jack Bull‌
star6.4
calendar 1999

Julie Walking Home

Julie Walking Home‌
star5.6
calendar 2002

Love Serenade

Love Serenade‌
star6.1
calendar 1996

In Her Skin

In Her Skin‌
star6.0
calendar 2009

South Solitary

South Solitary‌
star6.9
calendar 2010

The Turning

The Turning‌
star5.9
calendar 2013

Kin

Kin‌
star3.5
calendar 2000

The Well

The Well‌
star5.4
calendar 1997

I, Frankenstein

I, Frankenstein‌
star5.4
calendar 2014

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Doing Time for Patsy Cline‌
star6.2
calendar 1997

In the Winter Dark

In the Winter Dark‌
star5.6
calendar 1998

Initiation

Initiation‌
star4.9
calendar 1987

Reaching for the Moon

Reaching for the Moon‌
star6.6
calendar 2013

True Love and Chaos

True Love and Chaos‌
star3.5
calendar 1997

Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories

Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories‌
star8.5
calendar 2003

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim‌
star0.0
calendar 2024

The Homesman

The Homesman‌
star6.5
calendar 2014

Daydream Believer

Daydream Believer‌
star5.5
calendar 1992

The Nostradamus Kid

The Nostradamus Kid‌
star4.6
calendar 1993

Dead Letter Office

Dead Letter Office‌
star6.4
calendar 1998

Talk to Me

Talk to Me‌
star7.2
calendar 2023

At the Gates

At the Gates‌
star0.0
calendar 2023

My Freaky Family

My Freaky Family‌
star5.0
calendar 2024

The Daughter

The Daughter‌
star6.4
calendar 2015

Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe

Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe‌
star7.3
calendar 2020

Emma's War

Emma's War‌
star3.0
calendar 1986

Revealed: Otto By Otto

Revealed: Otto By Otto‌
star7.0
calendar 2024

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

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'‌
star6.0
calendar

Annabelle: Creation

Annabelle: Creation‌
star6.6
calendar 2017

Sex Is a Four Letter Word

Sex Is a Four Letter Word‌
star1.0
calendar 1995

Dance Academy: The Movie

Dance Academy: The Movie‌
star7.2
calendar 2017

Zoe

Zoe‌
star6.0
calendar 2018

The Chaperone

The Chaperone‌
star6.2
calendar 2019

The Three-Legged Fox

The Three-Legged Fox‌
star7.5
calendar 2004

The 13th Floor

The 13th Floor‌
star4.6
calendar 1988

The Silence

The Silence‌
star6.0
calendar 2019

Mabo

Mabo‌
star7.6
calendar 2012

Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude‌
star0.0
calendar 2009

The Raid

The Raid‌
star7.0
calendar 2017

Downhill

Downhill‌
star5.3
calendar 2020

Directing Annabelle: Creation

Directing Annabelle: Creation‌
star9.0
calendar 2017

Locke & Key

Locke & Key‌
star6.8
calendar 2011

The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision

The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision‌
star6.4
calendar 2003

The Portable Door

The Portable Door‌
star6.6
calendar 2023

Thou Shalt Not Steal

Thou Shalt Not Steal‌
star0.0
calendar 2024

The Pout-Pout Fish

The Pout-Pout Fish‌
star0.0
calendar

Tv Credits

Police Rescue

Police Rescue‌
star6.4
calendar 1991

Cashmere Mafia

Cashmere Mafia‌
star5.8
calendar 2008

The Unusual Suspects

The Unusual Suspects‌
star6.7
calendar 2021

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries‌
star7.7
calendar 2012

The Moth Effect

The Moth Effect‌
star4.0
calendar 2021

True Colours

True Colours‌
star4.9
calendar 2022

Fires

Fires‌
star7.4
calendar 2021

The Flying Doctors

The Flying Doctors‌
star6.1
calendar 1986

24: Legacy

24: Legacy‌
star6.1
calendar 2017

Rake

Rake‌
star5.3
calendar 2014

Thou Shalt Not Steal

Thou Shalt Not Steal‌
star5.7
calendar 2024

Wellmania

Wellmania‌
star6.8
calendar 2023

The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now‌
star7.7
calendar 2001

The Clearing

The Clearing‌
star6.4
calendar 2023

Ladies in Black

Ladies in Black‌
star2.0
calendar 2024

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‌
star8.2
calendar 2018

Through My Eyes

Through My Eyes‌
star9.0
calendar 2004

Homeland

Homeland‌
star7.5
calendar 2011

Heroes II: The Return

Heroes II: The Return‌
star8.0
calendar 1991

Koala Man

Koala Man‌
star6.6
calendar 2023

Reunited Apart

Reunited Apart‌
star5.5
calendar 2020