Miranda Otto
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1967-12-16
- Place of birth
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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).
Works in catalog 260
Analogies
Código: Martins — Hora Zero
Juminten Edan
Monstruations
Ruby, Ruby
Shark Thrash
The Caretaker
The Ghost of You
The Koolakamba Project vol. II
The Koolakamba Project vol. III
The Wicker Children
Blooming Death
Bloody Birthday
Play Dead
Impure
Eyes of the Abyss
Nightcrawlers
No cambié las cosas de lugar
Noseeums
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Redenta
Sottopelle
The Enemy
The Madness of David Judge
The Silence After
The Study of Dr Cavaglieri
Toucan
Adorable Humans
Anechoic
Bigfoot: The Movie - The Sequel
Blood Demons
Como desatar el apocalipsis
Drops From Hell
The Three Stooges and Thousands of Killers
Otis The Giant
Solvent
Terror!
The Missing
Sofia, the Possession
Water Horse
Within the Pines
31 Ottobre
Talk to Me
Marcy!
Pale
The Puppet Asylum
Bliss of Evil
Iceberg
Old People
Marvin
Midnight Peepshow
The Exorcism Of Ismaela Filbergues
Reportage November
Shifted
The Children Under the House
The Ruins of Cinema Khouri
Walking Dead - Tomate
Custodes
Inferno
Kuyang the Movie
Pazzo Cane
Savage Formula
Sugar Dead
Harvest Bowl
The Infernal Machine
The Crazy Origin of Covid-19
Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe
M - Fantasia Dramática
Marlene
Nata
Tar
The Room Next Door
Valley of the Dead
Welcome to the Circle
A Tale of Salt and Sea
Get Duked!
Contra-Filé
The Shed
The Silence
Hallowed Ground
Jurassic Thunder
Rocambola
The Last Heroes
Possession Diaries
Venado tuerto
Borrasca
Dead Love
Ghost Stories
Little Monster
O.I.
Os Jovens Baumann
Pamana
The Next Kill
Tonight She Comes
WitchStars
Annabelle: Creation
Cana
The End?
Terra e Luz
The Unseen
Alienween
Dark Cove
O Covil dos Condenados
The Case of Anna Mancini
The Last Maniac
The Unseen
Tropical Vampire
Wandering Soul
Who's the Tiktik?
Arachnids
Bigfoot The Movie
Ne Pas Projeter
Potato Salad: Don't Ask!
The Lady
The Monster
Cub
Strayed
Shattered Memories
I, Frankenstein
Air Terjun Pengantin Phuket
Audition
Extreme Jukebox
Childish Games
Kidnapped Souls
Community
A Pezzi: Undead Men
The Great Ghost Rescue
30 Days of Night: Dark Days
Troll Hunter
Saw (in 60 seconds)
Ang Darling Kong Aswang
Stan Helsing
The Burnt House
The Forbidden Door
Edison And Leo
I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer
Nocturnos
Hush
Parasomnia
Scaregivers
The Man Who Challenged the Devil
Scar
House of the Invisibles
The Dead and the Living
The Leguminous Monster from Outer Space 2
The Tooth Fairy
TxT
Contagio
Ispiritista: Itay, May Moomoo
Mondo Veneziano: High Noon in the Sinking City
The Thralls
Vampire Sisters 2: Bats in the Belly
And Then They Were Dead...
El cura confeso
Spirit of the Glass
Hatchetman
Still Night
The Antman
13 Curses
Doctor Sleep
Embrace the Darkness III
Deep Freeze
R.S.V.P.
Grandma's House
Rage-O-Rama
Rage-O-Rama
Beyond
What Lies Beneath
Beowulf
Scream as Much as You Want
The Haunted
Fodendo Meu Vitelo
In The Winter Dark
Medley - Brandelli di scuola
The Kingdom II
Chapado
Travis
Pigsty of Happiness
Uncle Sam
They Eat Your Flesh
Deadrock Zombies
Maniac Killer 2 - Back in Action
Project Shadowchaser III
Ripper Man
The Leguminous Monster from Outer Space
The Puppet Masters
The Kingdom
The Johnsons
The Other Dimension
The Runestone
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Dolly Dearest
Buried Alive
A Whisper to a Scream
Death in Focus
Fatal Exposure
The Freeway Maniac
Zombie Rampage
The 13th Floor
Knock Knock, Who's There?
The Abomination
The Drifter
Top Line
Howling III: The Marsupials
Open House
Pretty Kill
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
Invaders from Mars
Hunter's Blood
Tenement
The Sea Serpent
Blind Date
What Waits Below
Deadly Lessons
The Sins of Dorian Gray
One Dark Night
The Intruder
The Possessed Hand
Mag-Toning Muna Tayo
The Hearse
Nightwing
Alien
Up from the Depths
The Ghost Train
The Mummy's Revenge
A Quiet Place in the Country
The Embalmer
The Curse of the Living Corpse
Journey to the Seventh Planet
Reptilicus
Reptilicus
The Colossus of New York
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Back from the Dead
The Ghost Train
Witches
Woman Who Came Back
The Jungle Captive
The Vampire Returns
Das Gespensterhaus
Invisible Ghost
Dracula's Daughter
Daughter of Dracula
The Haller Case
The Living Dead
Haunted Gold
The Twelfth Hour
El corazón delator
The Telltale Heart
The Terror
Waxworks
The Stone Rider
Nosferatu
The Golem: How He Came into the World
Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire
The Hunchback and the Dancer
The Plague in Florence
Malombra
The Double Murder in the Rue Morgue
