Dakota Blue Richards

Dakota Blue Richards

Born: April 11, 1994
in Chelsea, London, England, UK
​Dakota Blue Richards (born 11 April 1994) is an English actress. Ten thousand girls turned up for open auditions in Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter and Kendal for the role of Lyra Belacqua in the adaptation of 'His Dark Materials: Northern Lights' to the film 'The Golden Compass (2007)'. In June 2006, twelve-year-old Dakota, a Londoner schoolgirl, was awarded the part after the casting directors' took a shine to her in the Cambridge auditions. Her mother is an American anthropologist.

Movies for Dakota Blue Richards...

What The Butler Saw
Title: What The Butler Saw
Character: Geraldine
Released: April 10, 2020
Type: Movie
Dr Prentice, a psychiatric doctor in a private clinic, is attempting to interview – and seduce – would-be secretary Geraldine. Unwittingly surprised by his wife, he hides the girl. The affairs multiply as Mrs Prentice is seduced and blackmailed by young bellhop Nicholas Beckett, and promises him the secretarial post. When a government inspector arrives, closely followed by Sergeant Match who is in search of missing parts of Winston Churchill, chaos, cross-dressing and mistaken identity lead the charge. This is The Curve Theatre's 2020 production of Joe Ortonm's play
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Title: Beecham House
Character: Margaret Osbourne
Released: June 23, 2019
Type: TV
On the cusp of the 19th century in Delhi, we follow the fortunes of the residents of the titular mansion. The story begins as handsome and soulful former English soldier John Beecham has acquired the house to start a new life for his family and a business as a trader.
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ChickLit
Title: ChickLit
Character: Zoe
Released: September 2, 2016
Type: Movie
ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mummy porn' novel in the style of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and it gets snapped up. The only snag is that the publisher insists that the young woman 'author' does press and publicity. The guys have to keep their involvement a secret and so engage an out of work actress to 'role play' the part of the author. This leads to her becoming the star in the film of the book, the tables are turned on the guys and she is in control - leaving them with the awful prospect of having to secretly churn out sex novels for the foreseeable future.
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The Quiet Hour
Title: The Quiet Hour
Character: Sarah
Released: June 24, 2016
Type: Movie
In a remote part of rural, post-apocalyptic England, now occupied by unseen alien invaders, a feisty teenage girl sets out on a desperate attempt to fight back a group of bandits and defend her parents' farm, their remaining livestock, and the solar panels that keep them safe from extraterrestrials. If she doesn't succeed, she will lose her only source of food and shelter; if she resists, she and her helpless blind sibling will be killed.
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Girl Power
Title: Girl Power
Character: Cass
Released: August 9, 2014
Type: Movie
It's 1997 and into a dizzy world of glamour and false promises comes Cass, a recent graduate. Innocent publishing appears perfect – but behind cool Britannia lurks a much darker place.
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The Fold
Title: The Fold
Character: Eloise Ashton
Released: March 28, 2014
Type: Movie
Struggling with her grief, Anglican priest Rebecca Ashton tries to replace her deceased daughter with another girl.
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Title: Endeavour
Character: WPC Shirley Trewlove
Released: April 14, 2013
Type: TV
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
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Title: Lightfields
Character: Eve
Released: February 27, 2013
Type: TV
The story follows three families that each lived in Lightfields farmhouse at different time periods (1944, 1975 and 2012) but who are linked by a spine-chilling presence: the ghost of a teenage girl who died in mysterious and tragic circumstances.
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Five Miles Out
Title: Five Miles Out
Character: Cass
Released: November 14, 2009
Type: Movie
Cass is sent away on holiday with her cousins where she meets a boy on a secret mission. All the while, in the back of her mind, is her sister back home in a hospital bed.
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The Secret of Moonacre
Title: The Secret of Moonacre
Character: Maria Merryweather
Released: February 6, 2009
Type: Movie
When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre Manor.
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Dustbin Baby
Title: Dustbin Baby
Character: April
Released: December 21, 2008
Type: Movie
The film follows the story of young teen April whose troubled life began in a dustbin - a new born baby, abandoned and alone, not celebrated, not wanted but discarded and left like so much rubbish in an industrial bin behind a pizza parlour. On the morning of her fourteenth birthday April has a devastating row with her foster mother, Marion and leaves the house determined to find out where she really comes from, who she really is and maybe, just maybe, find her real mother. Telling no-one what she's up to or where she's going, April skips school and begins the search she's dreamed about all her life. It's a blur of social workers, children's homes and special schools as April revisits and recalls the key scenes of her fragmented past. It's a painful journey, sometimes frightening but there's also friendship and love and laughter. And now she's started, there's no going back - April must find her mother.
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The Golden Compass
Title: The Golden Compass
Character: Lyra Belacqua
Released: December 4, 2007
Type: Movie
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
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Title: Skins
Character: Francesca "Franky" Fitzgerald
Released: January 25, 2007
Type: TV
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
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Title: Skins
Character: Franky Fitzgerald
Released: January 25, 2007
Type: TV
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
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Title: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 2003
Type: TV
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.
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Title: Today
Character: Self
Released: January 14, 1952
Type: TV
Today is a daily American morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and is the fifth-longest running American television series. Originally a two-hour program on weekdays, it expanded to Sundays in 1987 and Saturdays in 1992. The weekday broadcast expanded to three hours in 2000, and to four hours in 2007. Today's dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the late 1980s, when it was overtaken by ABC's Good Morning America. Today retook the Nielsen ratings lead the week of December 11, 1995, and held onto that position for 852 consecutive weeks until the week of April 9, 2012, when it was beaten by Good Morning America yet again. In 2002, Today was ranked #17 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest Television Shows of All Time.
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Each Coming Night
Title: Each Coming Night
Character: Gwen
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A grieving young woman attempts to find closure by spending a night in the hotel where her brother was murdered.