1967-12-16 ( 57 years old ) in 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).
Movies
Revealed: Otto By Otto
2024-06-16
My Freaky Family
2024-04-25
At the Gates
2023-11-03
Talk to Me
2023-07-26
The Portable Door
2023-03-23
Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe
2020-10-23
Downhill
2020-02-06
The Silence
2019-05-16
The Chaperone
2019-03-29
Zoe
2018-07-19
The Raid
2017-12-12
Directing Annabelle: Creation
2017-08-07
Annabelle: Creation
2017-08-03
Dance Academy: The Movie
2017-04-06
The Daughter
2015-10-09
The Homesman
2014-05-18
I, Frankenstein
2014-01-22
The Turning
2013-09-25
Reaching for the Moon
2013-02-09
Mabo
2012-06-10
Locke & Key
2011-01-01
South Solitary
2010-07-29
In Her Skin
2010-05-13
Blessed
2009-09-10
Schadenfreude
2009-02-21
War of the Worlds
2005-06-13
Flight of the Phoenix
2004-12-17
In My Father's Den
2004-06-11
The Making of the Return of the King
2004-04-01
The Three-Legged Fox
2004-02-01
The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision
2003-12-26
Danny Deckchair
2003-05-16
The Making of The Two Towers
2003-04-01
Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories
2003-01-01
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002-12-18
Julie Walking Home
2002-09-04
Doctor Sleep
2002-02-01
Human Nature
2001-09-12
What Lies Beneath
2000-07-21
Kin
2000-07-05
The Jack Bull
1999-04-17
The Thin Red Line
1998-12-23
In the Winter Dark
1998-09-10
Dead Letter Office
1998-08-20
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
1997-09-25
True Love and Chaos
1997-05-22
The Well
1997-05-14
Love Serenade
1996-10-10
Sex Is a Four Letter Word
1995-10-01
The Nostradamus Kid
1993-10-14
The Last Days of Chez Nous
1992-10-08
Daydream Believer
1992-08-07
The 13th Floor
1988-05-31
Initiation
1987-06-20
Emma's War
1986-12-26
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