Miranda Otto
Biography
Miranda Otto is an Australian actress who grew up in Brisbane and Newcastle and, encouraged by her actor parents, started performing while still a teenager. She trained at Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1990, and spent about a decade in Australian films, gaining several Australian Film Institute nominations. Her first Hollywood notice came from supporting parts in The Thin Red Line (1998) and in What Lies Beneath (2000). She became known internationally for playing Éowyn in Peter Jackson's trilogy drawn from Tolkien's fantasy novels. Other films include War of the Worlds (2005), Annabelle: Creation (2017) and Talk to Me (2023), and she appeared on television in Homeland and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. She won a Logie Award for the miniseries Through My Eyes, took an MO Award for the stage play A Doll's House, and narrated the anime prequel The War of the Rohirrim (2024).
58years old
Turns 59 on December 16in 35 days
- Born Brisbane
- Star sign: SagittariusThe sign runs November 22 to December 21
Movie Career
- Films
- 28
- Career span
- 38 years1988 to 2026
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Big break
After Uma Thurman declined the part of Éowyn in The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson saw an audition tape Miranda Otto had made in Australia and gave her the role right away.
First role
For the Sydney Theatre Company, Otto's first stage appearance came in a 1986 production of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant.
Early training
Otto earned her degree from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney in 1990. Before that, she had small parts in movies such as Initiation and The 13th Floor.
Big break
In 1991, Otto took her first film role after graduating, playing Nell Tiscowitz in The Girl Who Came Late. That part became her breakthrough, drawing notice from the Australian film industry and the public.
Miranda Otto movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Jeffrey Walker directed two of these films. Sam Neill appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Sam Neill's page
John Cusack's page
Tim Robbins's page
William Fichtner's page
Rhys Ifans's page
Nick Stahl's page
All films by Jeffrey Walker
Also two films together4 more actors
- Chris PangThe Portable Door (2023) and I, Frankenstein (2014)
- Justine ClarkeIn Her Skin (2009) and Danny Deckchair (2003)
- Dena KaplanDance Academy: The Movie (2017) and In Her Skin (2009)
- Sophie WildeTalk to Me (2023) and The Portable Door (2023)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Miranda Otto's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.5 billion
16 of the 27 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 27 films: 16 worldwide figure; 4 us gross only; 3 never in cinemas; 4 figure not found.
- 16Worldwide figure
- 4US gross only
- 3Never in cinemas
- 4Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$604M39.5% of the total
- 2$307M20.1% of the total
- 3$291M19.1% of the total
- 4$98M6.4% of the total
- 5$92M6.0% of the total
- 6$77M5.0% of the total
- 7$21M1.4% of the total
- 8$21M1.4% of the total
$18.2 millionfrom the other 8 films with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total
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Official profiles and reference pages.