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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

82

Gender

Female

Birthday

1967-12-16 (58 years old)

Place of Birth

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Also Known As

Μιράντα Ότο

Miranda Lin Otto

Miranda 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).

Known For

Acting

War of the Worlds

2005

War of the Worlds

as

Mary-Ann

Human Nature

2001

Human Nature

as

Gabrielle

In My Father's Den

2004

In My Father's Den

as

Penny Prior

What Lies Beneath

2000

What Lies Beneath

as

Mary Feur

Doctor Sleep

2002

Doctor Sleep

as

Clara Strother

The Thin Red Line

1998

The Thin Red Line

as

Marty Bell

Danny Deckchair

2003

Danny Deckchair

as

Glenda Lake

Blessed

2009

Blessed

as

Bianca

The Jack Bull

1999

The Jack Bull

as

Cora Redding

Julie Walking Home

2002

Julie Walking Home

as

Julie Makowsky

Love Serenade

1996

Love Serenade

as

Dimity Hurley

In Her Skin

2009

In Her Skin

as

Mrs. Barber

South Solitary

2010

South Solitary

as

Meredith Appleton

The Turning

2013

The Turning

as

Sherry

Kin

2000

Kin

as

Anna

The Well

1997

The Well

as

Katherine

I, Frankenstein

2014

I, Frankenstein

as

Leonore

In the Winter Dark

1998

In the Winter Dark

as

Ronnie

Initiation

1987

Initiation

as

Stevie

Reaching for the Moon

2013

Reaching for the Moon

as

Elizabeth Bishop

The Homesman

2014

The Homesman

as

Theoline Belknap

Daydream Believer

1992

Daydream Believer

as

Nell Tiscowitz

The Nostradamus Kid

1993

The Nostradamus Kid

as

Jennie O'Brien

Dead Letter Office

1998

Dead Letter Office

as

Alice Walsh

Talk to Me

2023

Talk to Me

as

Sue

At the Gates

2023

At the Gates

as

Marianne Barris

My Freaky Family

2024

My Freaky Family

as

Aneska Flood

The Daughter

2015

The Daughter

as

Charlotte

Emma's War

1986

Emma's War

as

Emma Grange

Annabelle: Creation

2017

Annabelle: Creation

as

Esther Mullins

Dance Academy: The Movie

2017

Dance Academy: The Movie

as

Madeline Moncur

Zoe

2018

Zoe

as

The Designer

The Chaperone

2019

The Chaperone

as

Ruth St. Dennis

The 13th Floor

1988

The 13th Floor

as

Rebecca

The Silence

2019

The Silence

as

Kelly Andrews

Mabo

2012

Mabo

as

Margaret White

Schadenfreude

2009

Schadenfreude

as

Waitress

The Raid

2017

The Raid

as

Rebecca Ingram

Downhill

2020

Downhill

as

Charlotte

Locke & Key

2011

Locke & Key

as

Nina Locke

The Portable Door

2023

The Portable Door

as

Countess Judy

The Fox

The Fox

as

Liz

Cashmere Mafia

Cashmere Mafia

as

Juliet Draper

True Colours

True Colours

as

Isabelle Martin

Fires

Fires

as

Kath Simpson

The Flying Doctors

The Flying Doctors

as

Amy Brodie

24: Legacy

24: Legacy

as

Rebecca Ingram

Rake

Rake

as

Maddy Deane

The Clearing

The Clearing

as

Adrienne Beaufort

Ladies in Black

Ladies in Black

as

Virginia Ambrose

Through My Eyes

Through My Eyes

as

Lindy Chamberlain

Homeland

Homeland

as

Allison Carr

Koala Man

Koala Man

as

Mindy

Production

Crew

Directing