Theatre

Theatre Before making a name for herself as a screen star, Miranda Richardson had previously led a hugely successful and extensive theatre career. Starting out with juvenile performances in Cinderella (the title role) and Lord Arthur Saville's Crime (as Sybil Merton) at the Southport Dramatic Club, the young thespian enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, making her stage debut in Moving at the Queen's Theatre, London. Soon afterwards, Richardson appeared in reportory theatre, until she found recognition in the West End for a series of highly praised stage performances, ultimately receiving an Olivier Award nomination for her performance in A Lie of the Mind, and in 1996 being cited as 'the greatest actress of our time in any medium' by one critic after she appeared in Orlando at the Edinburgh Festival. Repertory theatre Savage Amusement (Hazel) Stags and Hens (Linda) All My Sons (Ann) Sisterly Feelings (Brenda) Ten Times Table (Phillipa) Whose Life is it Anyway (Kay Sadler) Play it Again Sam (Linda Christie) Tom Jones (Sophie Western) Educating Rita (Rita) Professional theatre Moving (Jane Gladwin) The Table of the Two Horseman (Katie Wyld) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Honey) The Maids (Madame) Insignificance (The Actress) Life of Einstein (?) Edmond (Glenna) A Lie of the Mind (Beth) The Changeling (Beatrice-Joanna) Mountain Language (Young Woman) Etta Jenks (Etta Jenks) The Designated Mourner (Judy) Orlando (Orlando) Aunt Dan and Lemon (Aunt Dan) The Play What I Wrote (Herself)