Miranda Otto is a renowned Australian performer, with her career spanning decades across the stage and screen. Miranda’s feature film credits include The Thin Red Line, What Lies Beneath, War of The Worlds, Flight of The Phoenix, The Homesman, Love Serenade, Reaching for The Moon and her beloved portrayal of ‘Éowyn’ in Peter Jackson’s international blockbuster The Lord of The Rings film trilogy. Miranda’s performance in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King earned her a SAG Award for ‘Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture’. In 2016, Miranda was awarded the AACTA Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ for her performance in The Daughter, opposite Sam Neill and Geoffrey Rush. In 2020, she was seen opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell in Fox Searchlight’s Downhill.

Highlights of Miranda’s television credits include the roles of ‘Allison Carr’ in Showtime and Fox 21’s Emmy Award-winning series Homeland and ‘Aunt Zelda’ in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. For Miranda’s performance as ‘Lindy Chamberlain’ in the drama series Through My Eyes, she was awarded the TV Week Silver Logie Award for ‘Most Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series’.

Miranda has also worked extensively in theatre, including a memorable role in the Sydney Theatre Company’s Boy Gets Girl. Her performance as ‘Nora’ production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, also with Sydney Theatre Company, won her the 2003 Mo Award for ‘Female Actor in Play of the Year’.

Miranda enjoyed a return home to star in critically acclaimed ABC drama series, Fires and Ladies in Black, and Australian comedy drama series The Unusual Suspects. Miranda starred alongside Celeste Barber in Netflix comedy series Wellmania and can be seen in Disney+ /HULU’s psychological thriller, The Clearing opposite Guy Pearce and Teresa Palmer. Miranda can most recently be seen in the television series Thou Shalt Not Steal as ‘Maxine’ and The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim where she reprised the role of ‘Eowyn’.

Otto reunited with Sam Neill and stars alongside Christoph Waltz in in The Jim Henson Company fantasy adventure film, The Portable Door, as well as Danny and Michael Philippou’s Australian horror film, Talk to Me which premiered at Sundance Film Festival.