WCW: Miranda Otto

Australian actress Miranda Otto’s most recognizable role is probably as Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), but she has also been in a number of historical

Emma’s War (1987)

Heroes II: The Return (1991)

Of course this is a photo of Miranda Otto as Eowyn, and not from the film in question. That’s because I couldn’t find any photos of her in the film (or really, any photos of all from the film, period), and what I could find looked muddy and uninteresting costume-wise. Therefore, this photo of her looking luminous has been substituted.

The Thin Red Line (1998)

The Jack Bull (1999)

The Way We Live Now (2001)

The Three-Legged Fox (2004)

South Solitary (2010)

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Cocaine Blues (2012)

Miranda Otto plays Lydia Andrews, the grieving widow of a philanthropist in the first Miss Fisher episode. There is always more than meets the eye with Miss Fisher, however…

Reaching for the Moon (2013)

A dramatization of the love story between American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Set between 1951 and 1967, it looks gorgeous. No idea why we haven’t covered it yet in it’s own post.

The Homesman (2014)

The Chaperone (2018)

The screenplay is by Julian Fellowes, so I legit thought for a moment that this was an episode of Downton Abbey that I’d missed when I first went to look up images from the film. The film is set in the 1920s, focusing on Norma Carlisle (played by Fellowes’ fave Elizabeth McGovern), who is a chaperone for the future superstar Louise Brooks. Miranda Otto plays modern dance pioneer, Ruth St. Denis.

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10 thoughts on “WCW: Miranda Otto”

Love the Chaperone; I wasn’t sure about Haley Lu Richardson who plays Louise Brooks since I’d only seen her in modern-set films before (and she has a very modern face in my opinion) but she was a fun foil to McGovern’s more staid and reserved character. And the costumes are gorgeous.

Susan says:

October 26, 2022 at 10:37 am

The Way We Live Now is my 2nd favourite. My Favourite is the Lord of the Rings. Her Eowyn is how I always pictured The Shield-Maid of Rohan.

Love “The Way We Live Now” ! One of my favorites. Shirley Henderson and Matthew Macfadyen are excellent in it as well.

I didn’t recognize her in “Cocaine Blues.” Learned something new today.

I saw that Miss Fisher episode, and totally failed to recognize Miranda.

I haven’t seen much of her outside of LOTR, but she is in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina as one of the aunts, and I really enjoyed her character. Not a frock flick, but kind of ambiguous on aesthetics and style with some things actually looking a bit period-piecey or throwback to me.