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).
as Dorothy Hargrove
as Kerry(1 ep)
as Liz
as Marin (voice)
as Éowyn (voice)
as Maxine(5 eps)
as Self
as Virginia Ambrose(6 eps)
as Aneska Flood (voice)
as Marianne Barris
as Sue
as Adrienne Beaufort(8 eps)
as Camille Lavinge(1 ep)
as Countess Judy
as Mindy (voice)(1 ep)
as Isabelle Martin(4 eps)
as Kath Simpson(2 eps)
as Jenny(1 ep)
as Sara(4 eps)
as Self(1 ep)
as Charlotte
as Kelly Andrews
as Ruth St. Dennis
as Zelda Spellman(36 eps)
as The Designer
as Rebecca Ingram
as Esther Mullins
as Madeline Moncur
as Rebecca Ingram(12 eps)
as Charlotte
as Theoline Belknap
as Maddy Deane(13 eps)
as Leonore
as Sherry
as Elizabeth Bishop
as Margaret White
as Lydia Andrews(1 ep)
as Allison Carr(12 eps)
as Nina Locke
as Meredith Appleton
as Bianca
as Mrs. Barber
as Waitress
as Juliet Draper(7 eps)
as Cricket Stewart(6 eps)
as Mary Ann
as Kelly
as Lindy Chamberlain(2 eps)
as Penny Prior
as Ruth
as Glenda Lake
as Julie Makowsky
as Clara Strother
as Mrs Hurtle(4 eps)
as Gabrielle
as Mary Feur
as Anna
as Cora Redding
as Marty Bell
as Ronnie
as Alice Walsh
as Patsy
as Mimi
as Katherine
as Dimity Hurley
as Jennie O'Brien
as Annie
as Nell Tiscowitz
as Roma Page(2 eps)
as Amanda(1 ep)
as Rebecca
as Stevie
as Emma Grange
as Amy Brodie(1 ep)
