Miranda Otto

Also Known As: Μιράντα Ότο, Miranda Lin Otto

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).

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Birthday: December 16, 1967

Adult: No

Gender: Female

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Known For:

War of the Worlds
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Human Nature
In My Father's Den
What Lies Beneath
Doctor Sleep
Flight of the Phoenix
The Thin Red Line
Danny Deckchair
The Last Days of Chez Nous
Blessed
The Jack Bull
Julie Walking Home
Love Serenade
In Her Skin
South Solitary
The Turning
Kin
The Well
I, Frankenstein
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
In the Winter Dark
Initiation
Reaching for the Moon
True Love and Chaos
Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
The Homesman
Daydream Believer
The Nostradamus Kid
Dead Letter Office
Talk to Me
At the Gates
My Freaky Family
The Daughter
Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe
Emma's War
Revealed: Otto By Otto
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Annabelle: Creation
Sex Is a Four Letter Word
Dance Academy: The Movie
Zoe
The Chaperone
The Three-Legged Fox
The 13th Floor
The Silence
Mabo
Schadenfreude
The Raid
Downhill
Directing Annabelle: Creation
Locke & Key
The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision
The Portable Door
The Pout-Pout Fish
The Fox
The Making of The Two Towers
The Making of the Return of the King