Miranda Otto

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Miranda Otto
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Otto at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con
Born (1967-12-16) 16 December 1967 (age 56)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Education National Institute of Dramatic Art (BFA)
OccupationActress
Years active1986–present
Known for Éowyn in The Lord of the Rings
Spouse
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(m. 2003)​
Children1
Parent Barry Otto (father)
Relatives Gracie Otto (half-sister)

Miranda Otto (born 16 December 1967) is an Australian actress. She is the daughter of actors Barry and Lindsay Otto and the paternal half-sister of actress Gracie Otto. Otto began her acting career in 1986 at age 18 and appeared in a variety of independent and major studio films in Australia. She made her major film debut in Emma's War in 1987 in which she played a teenager who moves to Australia's bush country during World War II. [1]

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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 The Thin Red Line and What Lies Beneath . She rose to fame in the early 2000s for playing Éowyn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series, based on the classic fantasy novel of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien.

Early life

Otto was born on 16 December 1967 [2] in Brisbane and was raised there and in Newcastle. She briefly lived in Hong Kong following her parents' divorce at age six. [3] She spent weekends and holidays with her father in Sydney and developed an interest in acting through him. [4]

During her childhood, Otto and her friends wrote scripts and designed costumes and flyers in their spare time. [5] She appeared in several plays at the Nimrod Theatre, which attracted the attention of casting director Faith Martin. Subsequently, Otto received a role in the 1986 World War II drama Emma's War . [4]

She had wanted to be a ballerina but was forced to abandon this goal due to moderate scoliosis. [3] Otto graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney in 1990. [6] Prior to graduation, she appeared in minor film roles including Initiation (1987) and The 13th Floor (1988). [7]

Career

Early career

Otto's first post-graduation film role in 1991, as Nell Tiscowitz in The Girl Who Came Late , 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 the best actress award the following year. [8]

Otto's next role was in The Last Days of Chez Nous (1991), 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 the best supporting actress award. [8]

In 1993, Otto co-starred with Noah Taylor in the sexually provocative comedy film The Nostradamus Kid , 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". [9] A small role in the independent film Sex Is a Four Letter Word followed in 1995. [10]

In 1995, she began to doubt her career choice as she failed to get the parts for which she auditioned. She retreated to her home in Newcastle for almost a year, during which she painted her mother's house. [6] In 1996, director Shirley Barrett cast Otto as a shy waitress in the film Love Serenade . 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 and Doing Time for Patsy Cline . 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. [6] 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." [11] Otto earned her third Australian Film Institute nomination for the film. [8] 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. [12]

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. [13]

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 , 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. [8] A small role in The Thin Red Line (1998) led to further film roles outside of Australia, [14] such as in Italy, where she co-starred as Ruth in the low-budget Italian film La volpe a tre zampe ("The Three-legged Fox"), [15] produced in 2001 and broadcast for the first time on Italian television in March 2009. [16]

Hollywood

Otto's first Hollywood role was the suspense thriller What Lies Beneath in 2000. She played Mary Feur, a mysterious next-door neighbour. [17]

In 2001, she was cast as a naturalist in the comedy Human Nature . Writer Charlie Kaufman, impressed by her audition two years earlier for his film Being John Malkovich , arranged for Otto to audition and meet with the film's director Michel Gondry. [18] Critic Jeffrey M. Anderson criticised Otto's French accent and wrote that she "doesn't seem to mesh with what's going on around her". [19]

Also in 2001, Otto appeared in the BBC adaptation of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now , as a strong-willed American Southerner. [20]

In 1999, Otto was cast as Éowyn in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, after Uma Thurman turned down the role. [21] Director Peter Jackson cast her immediately after viewing the audition video she had filmed in Australia. [22] For the role, Otto spent six weeks learning stunt choreography and horse riding. [23] Otto's 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. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was a critical and financial success, and the third film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2004. [24] Otto's performance earned her an Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

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Otto at Ring*Con in Germany in 2006

Otto's 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). The film is a drama that portrays the story of Lindy Chamberlain, who was wrongfully convicted in 1982 of killing her baby daughter, Azaria, in one of the country's most publicized murder trials. Otto was cast as Chamberlain, and her husband, Peter O'Brien, was cast as prosecutor Ian Barker. She was drawn to the role because it provided her with the "prospect of exploring an unconventional character." [25] At the 2005 Logie Awards, Otto won Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for her role. [26]

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Otto at InStyle Women of Style Awards Red Carpet 2012.

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. After giving birth to her daughter, she took a rest from films to concentrate on motherhood and theatre roles in Australia. [1]

In 2007, Otto starred as Cricket Stewart, the wife of a successful director, in the television miniseries The Starter Wife . [27] That same year, she was cast in the American television series Cashmere Mafia . In the series she plays Juliet Draper, a successful female executive who must rely on her friends to juggle the demands of a career and family in New York City. [28] Otto chose to star in the series because "American television at the moment is so interesting and, particularly, the characters for women are so fantastic" and she "liked the idea of having a character over a long period of time and developing it." [29] The series was cancelled in May 2008. [30]

In 2013 Otto played the role of American poet Elizabeth Bishop in Brazilian director Bruno Barreto’s Reaching for the Moon. [31]

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Otto (far left) at Cannes Film Festival 2014

Otto starred opposite Stephanie Sigman and Anthony LaPaglia in the horror prequel Annabelle: Creation , directed by David F. Sandberg. [32] The film was released on 12 August 2017. [33] She portrayed Zelda Spellman in Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020). [34]

On 31 May 2020, Otto joined Josh Gad's YouTube series Reunited Apart, which reunites the cast of popular films through video-conferencing and promotes donations to non-profit charities, with her fellow Lord of the Rings cast and crew members. [35]

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Otto at The Ivy Ballroom in 2013

On 15 June 2022, Otto was announced to be reprising her role as Éowyn from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film series in the anime fantasy film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024), a prequel directed by Kenji Kamiyama, to which she would serve as the narrator. [36]

On 13 November 2023, Otto was announced for ABC drama series Ladies In Black. [37]

Theatre

Otto made her theatrical debut in the 1986 production of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant for the Sydney Theatre Company. [38] 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". [39]

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 that Otto could appear in it. [1]

Personal life

On 1 January 2003, [40] she married actor Peter O'Brien, after the two met while performing in A Doll's House . [41] Otto and O'Brien have one child, a daughter. [41] After the birth of her daughter, Otto limited her work to spend more time with her family at their home in Australia. [3]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1986 Emma's War Emma Grange
1987 Initiation Stevie
1988 The 13th Floor Rebecca
1992 Daydream Believer Nell TiscowitzNominated—Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress
1992 The Last Days of Chez Nous AnnieNominated—Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Female Supporting Actor
1993 The Nostradamus Kid Jennie O'Brien
1995 Sex Is a Four Letter Word Viv
1996 Love Serenade Dimity Hurley
1997 The Well KatherineNominated—Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Female Actor
True Love and Chaos Mimi
Doing Time for Patsy Cline Patsy Cline
1998 Dead Letter Office Alice WalshNominated—Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Female Actor
In the Winter Dark RonnieNominated—Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actress
The Thin Red Line Marty Bell
2000KinAnna
What Lies Beneath Mary Feur
2001The Three-Legged FoxRuth
Human Nature Gabrielle
2002 Close Your Eyes Clara Strother
Julie Walking Home Julie
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Éowyn Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast
Internet Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress
Internet Movie Award for Breakthrough Performance
Nominated—Empire Award for Best Actress
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
Internet Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress
National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Nominated—International Online Cinema Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
Danny Deckchair Glenda Lake
2004 In My Father's Den Penny
Flight of the Phoenix Kelly Johnson
2005 War of the Worlds Mary Ann Ferrier
2009 In Her Skin Mrs Barber
Blessed Bianca
2010 South Solitary Meredith Appleton
Get It at Goode'sPatty Williams
2013 Reaching for the Moon Elizabeth Bishop
The Turning Sherry
2014 I, Frankenstein Queen Leonore
The Homesman Theoline Belknapp
2015 The Daughter Charlotte Finch AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
2017 Dance Academy: The Movie Madeline Moncur
Annabelle: Creation Esther Mullins
2018 Zoe The Designer
The Chaperone Ruth St. Dennis
2019 The Silence Kelly Andrews
2020 Downhill Charlotte
2022 Talk to Me Sue
2023 The Portable Door Countess Judy
2024 The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Éowyn Also narrator [36]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1988 A Country Practice Millie AlcottTV series, 4 episodes
1992 Heroes II: The Return Roma PageTV film
1995 Police Rescue AmandaTV series, episode: "On the Outer"
1999 The Jack Bull Cora ReddingTV film
2001 The Way We Live Now Mrs HurtleMiniseries
2004 Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story Lindy Chamberlain Miniseries
Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Drama Actress
Nominated—Australian Film Institute Award for Best Lead Television Actress
2007 The Starter Wife Cricket StewartMiniseries
Cashmere Mafia Juliet DraperTV series, 7 episodes
2012 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Lydia AndrewsTV series, episode: "Cocaine Blues"
2014 Rake Maddy DeaneTV series, 13 episodes
2015 Homeland Allison Carr TV series, 12 episodes
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2017 24: Legacy Rebecca IngramTV series, 12 episodes
2018–2020 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Zelda Spellman TV series, Main cast
2021 The Unusual Suspects Sara BeasleyMiniseries, main cast
Fires Kath SimpsonTV series, 2 episodes
2022 True Colours Isabelle MartinTV series, main cast
2023 Koala Man Mindy (voice)TV series, episode: "Hot Christmas"
The Clearing AdrienneTV series, 8 episodes
Wellmania Camille LavigneTV series, 1 episode
2024Ladies In BlackVirginia AmbroseTV series: 6 episodes
Thou Shall Not Steal MaxineTV series

Television (as self)

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996 Midday with Kerri-Anne Herself – GuestTV series, 1 episode
1997; 1998 The Movie Show Herself - GuestTV series, 1 episode
1997Monday to FridayHerself – GuestTV series, 1 episode
1998; 2002 The Movie Show Herself - GuestTV series, 1 episode
2002 The Movie Show Herself – Guest (from Venice Film Festival)TV series, 1 episode
2023; 2024 News Breakfast Herself - GuestTV series, 1 episode
2023 The Project Herself - Guest (with Teresa Palmer)TV series, 1 episode
2024 News Breakfast Herself & Gracie OttoTV series, 1 episode
2024 Who Do You Think You Are? HerselfTV series, 1 episode

Theatre

YearTitleRoleNotes
1986 The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant Wharf Studio Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1986 The Real Thing Playhouse Newcastle with Hunter Valley Theatre Company
1991Sixteen Words for WaterBetsy Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1992Time and the RoomSleep Woman Wharf Studio Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1992The Girl Who Saw EverythingEdwina Rouse Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1993Brilliant LiesSusySuncorp Theatre, Playhouse Melbourne, Monash University, Her Majesty’s Theatre Ballarat, Ford Theatre Geelong, West Gippsland Arts Centre, Theatre Royal, Hobart, Playhouse Adelaide, Sydney Opera House, Canberra Theatre with Queensland Theatre Company
1995 Gigi GigiSuncorp Theatre, Brisbane with Queensland Theatre Company
2002 A Doll’s House Nora Helmer Wharf 1 Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
2002Hanging ManCasting Director Wharf 2 Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
2005 Boy Gets Girl Theresa Bedell Wharf 1 Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
2011The White GuardLena Sydney Theatre Company

[42] [43]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardsCategoryNominated workResult
1992 Australian Film Institute Best Actress in a Supporting Role The Girl Who Came Late Nominated
Best Actress in a Supporting Role The Last Days of Chez Nous Nominated
1993 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards Best Supporting Actor – FemaleNominated
1996Best Actor – Female Love Serenade Nominated
1997 Australian Film Institute Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role The Well Nominated
1998Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role In the Winter Dark Nominated
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards Best Actor – Female The Well Nominated
1999Best Actor – Female Dead Letter Office Nominated
Satellite Awards Outstanding Motion Picture Ensemble The Thin Red Line Won
2002Awards Circuit Community AwardsBest Cast Ensemble The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Nominated
2003 Empire Awards Best ActressNominated
Gold Derby Ensemble CastNominated
Online Film Critics Society Awards Best EnsembleWon
Phoenix Film Critics Society AwardsBest Acting EnsembleWon
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion PictureNominated
Newport Beach Film FestivalBest Actress Julie Walking Home Won
Helpmann Award Best Female Actor in a Play A Doll's House Nominated
Mo Awards Best Female Actor in a PlayWon
Awards Circuit Community AwardsBest Cast Ensemble The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Won
DVD Exclusive Awards Best Audio Commentary (New for DVD)Nominated
Golden Schmoes Awards Best Supporting Actress of the YearNominated
National Board of Review Best Acting by an EnsembleWon
2004 Saturn Awards Best Supporting ActressNominated
Critics' Choice Movie Awards Best Acting EnsembleWon
Gold Derby Ensemble CastWon
International Online Cinema AwardsBest Supporting ActressNominated
Phoenix Film Critics Society AwardsBest Ensemble ActingNominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureWon
2005 Logie Awards Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series Through My Eyes Won
Australian Film Institute Best Lead Actress in TelevisionNominated
2011 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards Best Actor – Female South Solitary Nominated
InStyle Women Of Style AwardArts & CultureWon
2012 Helpmann Award Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role – Play The White Guard Nominated
2014 Women Film Critics Circle Awards Best Ensemble Cast The Homesman Won
2016 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Homeland Nominated
AACTA Award Best Supporting Actress The Daughter Won
2017 Australian Film Critics Association Best Supporting ActressNominated
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards Best Actress – Supporting RoleWon
2021 AACTA Award Best Lead Actress in a Drama Fires Nominated

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