The Pout-Pout Fish
2026 · Movie
as Marin (voice)
Miranda Otto
1967-12-16
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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).
Filmography
The Fox
2026 · Movie
as Liz
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024 · Movie
as Éowyn (voice)
My Freaky Family
2024 · Movie
as Aneska Flood (voice)
Revealed: Otto By Otto
2024 · Movie
as Self
Ladies in Black
2024 · TV Show
as Virginia Ambrose
Thou Shalt Not Steal
2024 · TV Show
as Maxine
Talk to Me
2023 · Movie
as Sue
At the Gates
2023 · Movie
as Marianne Barris
The Portable Door
2023 · Movie
as Countess Judy
In the Grip of Terror: Making Talk to Me
2023 · Movie
as Self
The Clearing
2023 · TV Show
as Adrienne Beaufort
Koala Man
2023 · TV Show
as Mindy (voice)
Wellmania
2023 · TV Show
as Camille Lavinge
True Colours
2022 · TV Show
as Isabelle Martin
The Unusual Suspects
2021 · TV Show
as Sara
The Moth Effect
2021 · TV Show
as Jenny
Fires
2021 · TV Show
as Kath Simpson
Faith & Fear: The Conjuring Universe
2020 · Movie
as Self
Downhill
2020 · Movie
as Charlotte
Reunited Apart
2020 · TV Show
as Self
The Chaperone
2019 · Movie
as Ruth St. Dennis
The Silence
2019 · Movie
as Kelly Andrews
Zoe
2018 · Movie
as The Designer
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
2018 · TV Show
as Zelda Spellman
Annabelle: Creation
2017 · Movie
as Esther Mullins
Dance Academy: The Movie
2017 · Movie
as Madeline Moncur
The Raid
2017 · Movie
as Rebecca Ingram
24: Legacy
2017 · TV Show
as Rebecca Ingram
The Daughter
2015 · Movie
as Charlotte
I, Frankenstein
2014 · Movie
as Leonore
The Homesman
2014 · Movie
as Theoline Belknap
Rake
2014 · TV Show
as Maddy Deane
The Turning
2013 · Movie
as Sherry
Reaching for the Moon
2013 · Movie
as Elizabeth Bishop
Mabo
2012 · Movie
as Margaret White
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012 · TV Show
as Lydia Andrews
Locke & Key
2011 · Movie
as Nina Locke
Homeland
2011 · TV Show
as Allison Carr
South Solitary
2010 · Movie
as Meredith Appleton
Blessed
2009 · Movie
as Bianca
In Her Skin
2009 · Movie
as Mrs. Barber
Schadenfreude
2009 · Movie
as Waitress
Cashmere Mafia
2008 · TV Show
as Juliet Draper
The Starter Wife
2007 · TV Show
as Cricket Stewart
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
2006 · Movie
as Self
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2006 · Movie
as Self
War of the Worlds
2005 · Movie
as Mary Ann
In My Father's Den
2004 · Movie
as Penny Prior
Flight of the Phoenix
2004 · Movie
as Kelly
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004 · Movie
as Self
The Three-Legged Fox
2004 · Movie
as Ruth
Through My Eyes
2004 · TV Show
as Lindy Chamberlain
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 · Movie
as Éowyn
Danny Deckchair
2003 · Movie
as Glenda Lake
The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision
2003 · Movie
as Self
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002 · Movie
as Éowyn
Doctor Sleep
2002 · Movie
as Clara Strother
Julie Walking Home
2002 · Movie
as Julie Makowsky
Human Nature
2001 · Movie
as Gabrielle
The Way We Live Now
2001 · TV Show
as Mrs Hurtle
What Lies Beneath
2000 · Movie
as Mary Feur
Kin
2000 · Movie
as Anna
The Jack Bull
1999 · Movie
as Cora Redding
The Thin Red Line
1998 · Movie
as Marty Bell
In the Winter Dark
1998 · Movie
as Ronnie
Dead Letter Office
1998 · Movie
as Alice Walsh
The Well
1997 · Movie
as Katherine
Doing Time for Patsy Cline
1997 · Movie
as Patsy
True Love and Chaos
1997 · Movie
as Mimi
Love Serenade
1996 · Movie
as Dimity Hurley
Sex Is a Four Letter Word
1995 · Movie
as Viv
The Nostradamus Kid
1993 · Movie
as Jennie O'Brien
The Last Days of Chez Nous
1992 · Movie
as Annie
Daydream Believer
1992 · Movie
as Nell Tiscowitz
Police Rescue
1991 · TV Show
as Amanda
Heroes II: The Return
1991 · TV Show
as Roma Page
The 13th Floor
1988 · Movie
as Rebecca
Initiation
1987 · Movie
as Stevie
Emma's War
1986 · Movie
as Emma Grange
The Flying Doctors
1986 · TV Show
as Amy Brodie
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Fog City
· Movie
as Dorothy Hargrove
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The Great White
· TV Show
