Miranda Otto

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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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  • wc Gender: Female
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1967-12-16
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  • school Known for: Acting
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  • info Birth Place Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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War of the Worlds

2005-06-13

8.5

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2002-12-18

8.5

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003-12-17

6

Human Nature

2001-09-12

7.1

In My Father's Den

2004-06-11

6.4

What Lies Beneath

2000-07-21

5.1

Doctor Sleep

2002-02-01

6

Flight of the Phoenix

2004-12-17

7.5

The Thin Red Line

1998-12-23

6

Danny Deckchair

2003-05-16

5.9

The Last Days of Chez Nous

1992-10-08

6.5

Blessed

2009-09-10

6.4

The Jack Bull

1999-04-17

5.6

Julie Walking Home

2002-09-04

6.1

Love Serenade

1996-10-10

6

In Her Skin

2009-03-13

6.9

South Solitary

2010-07-29

5.9

The Turning

2013-09-25

3.5

Kin

2000-07-05

5.4

The Well

1997-05-14

5.4

I, Frankenstein

2014-01-22

6.2

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

1997-09-25

5.6

In the Winter Dark

1998-09-10

4.9

Initiation

1987-06-20

6.6

Reaching for the Moon

2013-02-09

3.5

True Love and Chaos

1997-05-22

8.5

Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories

2003-01-01

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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

2024-12-05

6.5

The Homesman

2014-05-18

5.5

Daydream Believer

1992-08-07

4.6

The Nostradamus Kid

1993-10-14

6.4

Dead Letter Office

1998-08-20

7.2

Talk to Me

2023-07-26

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At the Gates

2023-11-03

5

My Freaky Family

2024-03-25

6.4

The Daughter

2015-10-09

7.3

Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe

2020-10-23

3

Emma's War

1986-12-26

7

Revealed: Otto By Otto

2024-06-16

6

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

6.6

Annabelle: Creation

2017-08-03

1

Sex Is a Four Letter Word

1995-10-01

7.2

Dance Academy: The Movie

2017-04-06

6

Zoe

2018-07-19

6.2

The Chaperone

2019-03-29

7.5

The Three-Legged Fox

2004-02-01

4.6

The 13th Floor

1988-05-31

6.1

The Silence

2019-05-16

7.6

Mabo

2012-06-10

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Schadenfreude

2009-02-21

7

The Raid

2017-12-12

5.3

Downhill

2020-02-06

9

Directing Annabelle: Creation

2017-08-07

6.8

Locke & Key

2011-01-01

6.4

The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision

2003-12-26

6.6

The Portable Door

2023-03-23

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Thou Shalt Not Steal

2024-10-18

0

The Pout-Pout Fish

6.4

Police Rescue

1991-02-14

5.8

Cashmere Mafia

2008-01-06

6.7

The Unusual Suspects

2021-06-03

7.7

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

2012-02-24

4

The Moth Effect

2021-07-30

4.9

True Colours

2022-07-04

7.4

Fires

2021-09-26

6.1

The Flying Doctors

1986-05-15

6.1

24: Legacy

2017-02-05

5.3

Rake

2014-01-23

5.7

Thou Shalt Not Steal

2024-10-17

6.8

Wellmania

2023-03-29

7.7

The Way We Live Now

2001-11-11

6.4

The Clearing

2023-05-24

2

Ladies in Black

2024-06-16

8.2

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

2018-10-26

9

Through My Eyes

2004-10-23

7.6

Homeland

2011-10-02

8

Heroes II: The Return

1991-12-15

6.6

Koala Man

2023-01-09

5.5

Reunited Apart

2020-04-27

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