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Miranda Otto

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Miranda Otto
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Miranda Otto is an Australian actress. Otto is a daughter of actors Barry Otto and Lindsay Otto, and half-sister of actress Gracie Otto. She began her acting career at age 18 in 1986, and has appeared in a variety of independent and major studio films. Otto made her major film debut in Emman taistelu (1987), in which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II. After a decade of critically acclaimed roles in Australian films, Otto gained Hollywood's attention during the 1990s after appearing in supporting roles in the films Veteen piirretty viiva (1998) and Salaisuus pinnan alla (2000). She played Éowyn in the second and third installments of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series.

Otto's first post-graduation film role in 1991, as Nell Tiscowitz in The Girl Who Came Late (1992), was her breakthrough role, which brought her to the attention of the Australian film industry and the general public. In the film, directed by Kathy Mueller, she starred as a young woman who could communicate with horses. Her appearance garnered Otto her first Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actress the following year.

Otto's next role was in the film Ennen kuin kaikki päättyy (1992), which portrayed the complex relationships between the members of an Australian family. The film earned Otto her second Australian Film Institute nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1993, Otto co-starred with Noah Taylor in the sexually provocative comedy film The Nostradamus Kid (1993), which was based on the memories of author Bob Ellis during the 1960s. Otto was drawn to the film because she was "fascinated by the period and the people who came out of it." A small role in the independent film Sex Is a Four Letter Word (1995) followed in 1995.

In 1995, she began to doubt her career choice as she failed to get the parts for which she auditioned. She fled to her home in Newcastle for almost a year, during which she painted her mother's house. In 1996, director Shirley Barrett cast Otto as a shy waitress in the film Love Serenade (1996). She played Dimity Hurley, a lonely young woman, who competes with her older sister Vicki-Ann for the attention of a famous DJ from Brisbane. She starred in the 1997 films The Well (1997) and Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997). When Otto received the film script for The Well, she refused to read it, fearing that she would not get the part. Otto believed that she could not convincingly play the role of Katherine, who is supposed to be 18, as she was 30 at the time. The film, directed by Samantha Lang, starred Otto as a teenager involved in a claustrophobic relationship with a lonely older woman. The Well received mixed reviews; critic Paul Fisher wrote that Otto's performance was not "convincing" as she was "playing another repetitious character about whom little is revealed", while Louise Keller stated that Otto had delivered "her best screen performance yet." Otto earned her third Australian Film Institute nomination for the film. Later that year, she co-starred with Richard Roxburgh in the drama Doing Time for Patsy Cline. The low-budget Australian film required Otto to perform country music standards and also received mixed reviews from film critics.

Soon after the release of The Well and Doing Time for Patsy Cline, magazines and other media outlets were eager to profile the actress. In 1997, Otto began dating her Doing Time for Patsy Cline co-star Richard Roxburgh. Her involvement with Roxburgh made her a regular subject of Australian tabloid magazines and media at the time, a role to which she was unaccustomed.

Otto's 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. In the Winter Dark (1998), directed by James Bogle, followed later that year. Otto played Ronnie, a pregnant woman recently abandoned by her boyfriend. The film was a critical success in Australia, and Otto was nominated for her fourth Australian Film Institute Award. A small role in The Thin Red Line, led to further film roles outside of Australia, such as in Italy, where she co-starred as Ruth in the low-budget Italian film La volpe a tre zampe (2004), produced in 2001 and broadcast for the first time on Italian television in March 2009.

Otto's first Hollywood role was opposite Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer in the suspense thriller What Lies Beneath in 2000. She played Mary Feur, a mysterious next-door neighbor. The film was met with mixed reviews, but was an international success, grossing US$291 million. In 2001, she was cast as a naturalist in the comedy Human Nature - luonnon pikku oikkuja (2001). Writer Charlie Kaufman, impressed by her audition two years earlier for his film Being John Malkovich (1999), arranged for Otto to audition and meet with the film's director Michel Gondry. Human Nature was both a commercial and critical disappointment.

Otto made her theatrical debut in the 1986 production of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant for the Sydney Theatre Company. 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), in which she played Theresa, a journalist for a New York magazine. Otto committed to the project days before she found out she was pregnant. Robyn Nevin, the director, rescheduled the production from December 2004 to September 2005 so Otto could appear in it. In 2005, Nevin began pre-production on a play commissioned especially for Otto.
BornDecember 16, 1967
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  • Awards
    • 13 wins & 23 nominations

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Miranda Otto in Taru sormusten herrasta: Kuninkaan paluu (2003)
Miranda Otto in Taru sormusten herrasta: Kuninkaan paluu (2003)
Miranda Otto in Taru sormusten herrasta: Kuninkaan paluu (2003)
Miranda Otto in Taru sormusten herrasta: Kuninkaan paluu (2003)
Miranda Otto in Taru sormusten herrasta: Kuninkaan paluu (2003)
Miranda Otto in Taru sormusten herrasta: Kaksi tornia (2002)
Miranda Otto and Lucy Davis in Sabrina: Pimeällä puolella (2018)
Miranda Otto in Veteen piirretty viiva (1998)
Miranda Otto and David Wenham in Taru sormusten herrasta: Kuninkaan paluu (2003)
Miranda Otto, Stanley Tucci, Kate Trotter, and Kiernan Shipka in The Silence (2019)
Miranda Otto in Kin (2000)
Miranda Otto and Isaiah Washington in Kin (2000)

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Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, and Andy Serkis in Taru sormusten herrasta: Kuninkaan paluu (2003)
Taru sormusten herrasta: Kuninkaan paluu
9.0
  • Eowyn
  • 2003
Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Miranda Otto, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, and Andy Serkis in Taru sormusten herrasta: Kaksi tornia (2002)
Taru sormusten herrasta: Kaksi tornia
8.8
  • Eowyn
  • 2002
Veteen piirretty viiva (1998)
Veteen piirretty viiva
7.6
  • Marty Bell
  • 1998
Maailmojen sota (2005)
Maailmojen sota
6.5
  • Mary Ann
  • 2005

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  • The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
    • Eowyn (voice)
    • Post-production
    • 2024
  • The Clearing (2023)
    The Clearing
    6.3
    TV Mini Series
    • Adrienne Beaufort
    • 2023
  • Celeste Barber in Wellmania (2023)
    Wellmania
    6.7
    TV Series
    • Camille Lavinge
    • 2023
  • Sam Neill, Christoph Waltz, Sophie Wilde, Patrick Gibson, and Jessica De Gouw in The Portable Door (2023)
    The Portable Door
    6.1
    • Countess Judy
    • 2023
  • Hugh Jackman, Michael Cusack, Sarah Snook, Demi Lardner, and Jarrad Wright in Koala Man (2023)
    Koala Man
    6.8
    TV Series
    • Mindy (voice)
    • 2023
  • Talk to Me (2022)
    Talk to Me
    7.2
    • Sue
    • 2022
  • At the Gates (2022)
    At the Gates
    6.8
    • Marianne Barris
    • 2022
  • True Colours (2022)
    True Colours
    7.1
    TV Series
    • Isabelle Martin
    • 2022
  • Hunter Page-Lochard and Eliza Scanlen in Fires (2021)
    Fires
    7.2
    TV Mini Series
    • Kath Simpson
    • 2021
  • The Moth Effect (2021)
    The Moth Effect
    6.2
    TV Mini Series
    • Jenny
    • 2021
  • Miranda Otto, Lena Cruz, Heather Mitchell, Susana Downes, Michelle Vergara Moore, and Aina Dumlao in The Unusual Suspects (2021)
    The Unusual Suspects
    6.9
    TV Mini Series
    • Sara
    • 2021
  • Kiernan Shipka in Sabrina: Pimeällä puolella (2018)
    Sabrina: Pimeällä puolella
    7.4
    TV Series
    • Zelda Spellman
    • 2018–2020
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell in Downhill (2020)
    Downhill
    4.9
    • Charlotte
    • 2020
  • Stanley Tucci and Kiernan Shipka in The Silence (2019)
    The Silence
    5.3
    • Kelly Andrews
    • 2019
  • Elizabeth McGovern and Haley Lu Richardson in The Chaperone (2018)
    The Chaperone
    6.6
    • Ruth St. Dennis
    • 2018
  • Ewan McGregor and Léa Seydoux in Zoe (2018)
    Zoe
    6.1
    • The Designer
    • 2018

Producer

  • Talk to Me (2022)
    Talk to Me
    7.2
    • executive producer
    • 2022

Soundtrack

  • Kiernan Shipka in Sabrina: Pimeällä puolella (2018)
    Sabrina: Pimeällä puolella
    7.4
    TV Series
    • performer: "The Song of Purple Summer"
    • 2020
  • Julie Walking Home (2002)
    Julie Walking Home
    6.3
    • performer: "Wayfaring Stranger"
    • 2002
  • Human Nature - luonnon pikku oikkuja (2001)
    Human Nature - luonnon pikku oikkuja
    6.4
    • performer: "Fais Do Do"
    • 2001
  • Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)
    Doing Time for Patsy Cline
    6.2
    • performer: "Crazy", "Dead Red Roses"
    • 1997
  • True Love and Chaos (1997)
    True Love and Chaos
    5.7
    • performer: "Union City Blue"
    • 1997

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  • Height
    • 1.65 m
  • Born
    • December 16, 1967
    • Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  • Spouse
    • Peter O'BrienJanuary 1, 2003 - present (1 child)
  • Children
    • Darcey O'Brien
  • Parents
      Lindsay Otto
  • Relatives
      Gracie Otto(Half Sibling)
  • Other works
    Appeared in commercial for Damiani jewelry with 'Brad Pitt'.
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    • 1 Interview
    • 1 Article
    • 3 Magazine Cover Photos

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    Spent six months shooting her role as Eowyn for the Lord of the Rings and was required to learn sword fighting and horseback riding.
  • Quotes
    I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

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