Miranda Otto
Known for Acting · 81 credits
- Born
- 1967-12-16 (age 58)
- Place of birth
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Also known as
- Miranda Lin 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.
Known For
TV Shows (22)
Homeland
2011
as Allison Carr
The Flying Doctors
1986
as Amy Brodie
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
2018
as Zelda Spellman
Police Rescue
1991
as Amanda
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012
as Lydia Andrews
Reunited Apart
2020
as Self
24: Legacy
2017
as Rebecca Ingram
The Starter Wife
2007
as Cricket Stewart
Cashmere Mafia
2008
as Juliet Draper
Rake
2014
as Maddy Deane
Fires
2021
as Kath Simpson
Koala Man
2023
as Mindy (voice)
The Clearing
2023
as Adrienne Beaufort
The Moth Effect
2021
as Jenny
The Way We Live Now
2001
as Mrs Hurtle
Ladies in Black
2024
as Virginia Ambrose
Wellmania
2023
as Camille Lavinge
The Unusual Suspects
2021
as Sara
Heroes II: The Return
1991
as Roma Page
Thou Shalt Not Steal
2024
as Maxine
True Colours
2022
as Isabelle Martin
Through My Eyes
2004
as Lindy Chamberlain
Movies (59)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
as Éowyn
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
as Éowyn
Talk to Me
2023
as Sue
War of the Worlds
2005
as Mary-Ann
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
as Éowyn (voice)
Annabelle: Creation
2017
as Esther Mullins
The Thin Red Line
1998
as Marty Bell
What Lies Beneath
2000
as Mary Feur
I, Frankenstein
2014
as Leonore
The Pout-Pout Fish
2026
as Marin (voice)
The Homesman
2014
as Theoline Belknap
The Silence
2019
as Kelly Andrews
Flight of the Phoenix
2004
as Kelly
Human Nature
2001
as Gabrielle
Zoe
2018
as The Designer
The Portable Door
2023
as Countess Judy
The Jack Bull
1999
as Cora Redding
Downhill
2020
as Charlotte
The Turning
2013
as Sherry
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2004
as Self
The Fox
2026
as Liz
The Daughter
2015
as Charlotte
Reaching for the Moon
2013
as Elizabeth Bishop
In Her Skin
2009
as Mrs. Barber
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004
as Self
In My Father's Den
2004
as Penny Prior
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
2003
The Chaperone
2019
as Ruth St. Dennis
Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe
2020
as Self
The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision
2003
as Self
Locke & Key
2011
as Nina Locke
Danny Deckchair
2003
as Glenda Lake
My Freaky Family
2024
as Aneska Flood (voice)
Blessed
2009
as Bianca
Doctor Sleep
2002
as Clara Strother
Dance Academy: The Movie
2017
as Madeline Moncur
South Solitary
2010
as Meredith Appleton
The Nostradamus Kid
1993
as Jennie O'Brien
Julie Walking Home
2002
as Julie Makowsky
Kin
2000
as Anna
True Love and Chaos
1997
as Mimi
Love Serenade
1996
as Dimity Hurley
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
1997
as Patsy
Initiation
1987
as Stevie
The Raid
2017
as Rebecca Ingram
At the Gates
2023
as Marianne Barris
The Last Days of Chez Nous
1992
as Annie
Mabo
2012
as Margaret White
The 13th Floor
1988
as Rebecca
The Well
1997
as Katherine
Sex Is a Four Letter Word
1995
as Viv
The Three-Legged Fox
2004
as Ruth
Schadenfreude
2009
as Waitress
Dead Letter Office
1998
as Alice Walsh
In the Winter Dark
1998
as Ronnie
Revealed: Otto By Otto
2024
as Self
Emma's War
1986
as Emma Grange
In the Grip of Terror: Making Talk To Me
2023
as Self
Daydream Believer
1992
as Nell Tiscowitz
About Miranda Otto
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 C… With 81 credits spanning from 1986 to 2026, Miranda Otto has appeared in 59 films and 22 TV shows.
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Most Popular Miranda Otto Movies
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) — as Éowyn
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) — as Éowyn
- Talk to Me (2023) — as Sue
- War of the Worlds (2005) — as Mary-Ann
- The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) — as Éowyn (voice)
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