Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about MIRANDA OTTO!
perform in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Boy Gets
Girl.
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Miranda Otto (born 1967) is an australian actress and paternal half-sister of actress Gracie Otto . she began her acting career in 1986 at age 18, and appeared in a variety of independent and major Otto graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney in 1990 . she appeared in minor film roles including Initiation (1987) and The 13th Floor (1988). in 1993, she co-starred with Noah Taylor in the sexually provocative comedy film The Nostradamus Kid . in 1995, she began to doubt her career choice as she failed to get parts for which she auditioned in 1996, director Shirley Barrett cast Otto as a shy waitress in the film Love Serenade . she starred in the 1997 films The Well and Doing Time for Patsy Cline . when Otto Otto earned her third Australian Film Institute nomination for the film . later that year, she co-starred with Richard Roxburgh in the drama Doing Time for Patsy Cline . the film, directed by Samantha Lang, low-budget australia film required Otto to perform country music standards . Otto began dating her Doing Time for Patsy Cline co-star Richard Roxburgh in 1997 . she’s next project was the romantic the film was a critical success in Australia, and Otto was nominated for her fourth Australian Film Institute Award . she co-starred as Ruth in the low-budget italian film La volpe a tre zam in 1999, Otto was cast as Éowyn in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy . director Peter Jackson cast her immediately after viewing the audition video she had filmed in australia . she spent six weeks learning stunt choreography Otto’s character was introduced in the trilogy’s second film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in 2002 . her performance earned her an academy of science fiction, fantasy & horror films nomination for Best Supporting Otto was cast as Chamberlain after her husband had been cast as prosecutor Ian Barker . at the 2005 Logie Awards, she won Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for her role . after giving birth to Otto stars in the american television series Cashmere mafia . she plays Juliet Draper, a successful female executive who must juggle work and family . the series was cancelled in may 2008 in 2002, she returned to the stage playing Nora Helmer in A Doll’s House . her next stage role was in the psychological thriller Boy Gets Girl (2005) . she committed to the project days before she found out Otto and O’Brien have one child, a daughter named Darcey, born on 1 April 2005 . pregnancy almost forced her to turn down her role in war of the worlds . since birth of daughter, Ott