Since 2002, the talented Australian actress Miranda Otto has become recognizable abroad, because the trilogy of Peter Jackson's “Lord of the Rings”, which raised $ 3 billion and seventeen Oscars, was watched by billions of people. Among the star cast of the epic, along with Elijah Wood, Sean Austin, Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom, Princess Eowyn and Miranda Otto brilliantly played their roles. Her image is very complex, and in some ways he repeats the fate of the actress herself. There are also clear parallels with the Orleans Virgo - the legendary Joan of Arc. About the formation of the actress, her work and personal life, read in this article.
Biography
Miranda Otto was born in an acting family, and this is evidenced by an unusual name. He was chosen for his daughter by his mother, Lindsay, who was fond of Shakespeare. Miranda is a character in the play The Tempest of the great classic. Lindsay Otto left the acting profession shortly after the birth of her daughter (in 1967). The family at that time lived in Brisbane, in the state of Queensland. Miranda also considers the hometown of Newcastle. For a while she lived in Hong Kong. When Miranda was six years old, her parents broke up. But on weekends and holidays, the girl came to Sydney to her father - the famous Australian actor Barry Otto. It was he who instilled in his daughter a love of theater. When Miranda was twenty, her stepsister was born . Gracie Otto subsequently also became an actress.
As a child, Miranda wanted to become a ballerina, but due to scoliosis she was forced to leave classes in a choreographic studio. But her movie career was completely successful. Now the actress is married, raising a daughter (in this regard, she began to appear less often on screens). The actress celebrates her birthday on December sixteen, according to the horoscope she is Sagittarius.
Carier start
As a child, Miranda was friends with two girls - the daughters of a theater director, her father’s colleague. Girlfriends enthusiastically wrote scripts for their plays, they themselves played and sewed theater costumes. After a while, Miranda was invited for several roles in the Nimrod Theater. There she was noticed by casting director Fays Martin. He invited the young beauty to the screen test. As a result, the actress played her first major role in the movie in Emma's War, when she was only eighteen.
In 1990, she entered the prestigious NIDA School of Drama in Sydney. But the image of Emma Grunge did not make the actress popular. In the ninety-first, she got the role of Nell Tiskowitz in the film "The Girl Who was Late." The actress received accolades from film critics. However, further began a streak of bad luck. In the ninety-fifth year, the girl did not go through a casting for her favorite role, and Miranda Otto even began to doubt her vocation as an actress. She spent a year in Newcastle at her mother’s house. It was a truly pacifying time. Finally, Shirley Barrrett, an Australian filmmaker, invited her to her Love Serenade project.
Miranda Otto: filmography
She managed to completely overcome her complexes of the future celebrity in the film "The Well", where she at the age of thirty played the role of an eighteen-year-old girl. After this film, the actress was nominated for an Australian film award. It was not possible to get a prize then, but they began to invite her to act in Hollywood. Her first job at Dream Factory was the role of Marty Bell in The Thin Red Line (1998). After the release of this WWII tape, journalists and paparazzi began to collect files on Miranda. Collaboration with Hollywood continued in the film “What Hides the Lie” (2000), where she embodied the image of Mary Faure. A year later, the actress played the role of Gabrielle in "Animal Nature".
Peter Jackson Movie Trilogy
The most famous film in the filming of which Miranda Otto took part is The Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson was impressed by her work in Australian and Hollywood films, so he invited the actress to play the role of Eowyn - the niece of King Theoden. It should be said that the fate of the fairytale princess was at that time in tune with the personal experiences of Miranda. Eowyn is in love with Aragorn, but his heart belongs to another - the beautiful elf Arwen (played by Liv Tyler). Forced to accept the bitter truth, the proud girl decided to devote her life to freeing the fatherland from evil forces. She disguises herself as a knight and takes part in a decisive battle. She is ready to die, because she has no one to live for. And immortal glory awaits her - she becomes the woman who was destined to kill the main Nazgul.
Miranda from the ninety-seventh to two thousandth year had a love relationship with Richard Roxburgh - a frequent colleague on the set. Their breakup was very painfully experienced by the actress. She became deeply understandable and pretty Eowyn, she tried to reveal the whole versatility of the soul of the princess. Long before filming, Miranda began to practice horseback riding and fencing. She arrived in New Zealand ahead of schedule in order to feel the spirit of this place and get used to her role as much as possible.
World recognition
Having starred in the last two parts of The Lord of the Rings (Two Fortresses and The Return of the King), Miranda Otto (photo of the actress in armor circled all the tabloids) became a world celebrity. Now the doors of the movie sets were open for her. Having played Eowyn, the actress seemed to get rid of the obsession inspired by her by Richard Roxburgh. In 2003, she began dating actor Peter O'Brien. The actress set to work in film and television. In 2004, she became Kelly Johnson in “Flight of the Phoenix” and Penny in the film “At My Father's House”. In 2005, she was expecting a baby when Steven Spielberg invited her to play a duet with Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds. Filming was organized in such a way that Miranda did not notice any pregnancy.
Motherhood
On April 1, 2005, Miranda Otto gave birth to a daughter, whom the couple named Darcy. The actress decided to devote several years until the baby grows up, the joys of motherhood. She temporarily refused all offers, no matter how tempting they were, and took a vacation, leaving for her native Australia. As the actress herself admitted, she would never have withstood the burden of world fame that carries her compatriot Nicole Kidman. Only in 2008 she decided to take part in the television series "Cashmere Mafia" (the role of hotel manager Juliet Draper). But this project ended after one short season.
Return to the stage
To be more precise, the actress decided on small, not time-consuming roles before, before the Cashmere Mafia. So, in 2005, she played in the film "Boy Gets Girl". Two years later, she took part in the filming of the series "The competing wife," and a year later flashed in the supporting role in the film "In Her Skin." With the growing up of her daughter, the actress began to devote more and more time to work. The latest films with Miranda Otto are Rare Flowers, where she played Elizabeth Bishop, and the recently released movie I Am Frankenstein (Leonor).
Awards
Even before working with Peter Jackson, Miranda Otto attracted the attention of film critics. At first, she was nominated four times to receive Australian acting awards. In 2003, she won the Helpmann Award. She was also nominated for the nomination for Best Actress in a Movie (Female Actor in a Play). It is also worth mentioning that the actress began with the theatrical stage. Stage skill has remained her passion for life. Miranda's talent did not go unnoticed by theatrical critics.