Born: 16-Dec-1967
Birthplace: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: Australia
Executive summary: Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings

Miranda Otto's father (Barry Otto) and husband (Peter O'Brien), while utterly unknown in America, are more prominent in Australia. Otto herself starred in her first film, Emma's War, while she was in high school, and Lee Remick played her mother. By the time Otto made her first American film, Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, her résumé listed 14 Australian movies and four nominations for the Aussie equivalent of an Oscar.

In the U.S., Otto is best known as Eowyn in the second and third parts of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. She also pursued Tim Robbins in Human Nature, played a mysterious next-door neighbor in What Lies Beneath, ran an ostrich farm in In My Father's Den, and played an uptight meter maid in Danny Deckchair. In a 2004 miniseries for Aussie TV, she played Lindy Chamberlain, the "dingo took my baby!" mother Meryl Streep brought to the big screen in A Cry in the Dark. O'Brien, her husband, played the prosecutor. Miranda is at her best playing pregnant & American in a nifty low-budget chiller, Close Your Eyes (which was also released as Dr. Sleep and Hypnotic).

Father: Barry Otto (Australian actor, b. 1941)
Mother: Lindy Otto (Australian stage actress, fashion designer, video store owner)
Boyfriend: Richard Roxburgh (Australian actor, ex-)
Husband: Peter O'Brien (Australian actor, m. 1-Jan-2003)

    University: BA Theatre Arts, National Institute of Dramatic Art (an Australian theatrical school)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    War of the Worlds (27-Jun-2005)
    Flight of the Phoenix (17-Dec-2004)
    In My Father's Den (11-Jun-2004)
    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (1-Dec-2003)
    Danny Deckchair (16-May-2003)
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (5-Dec-2002)
    Julie Walking Home (4-Sep-2002)
    Doctor Sleep (16-Aug-2002)
    Human Nature (18-May-2001)
    What Lies Beneath (21-Jul-2000)
    The Jack Bull (17-Apr-1999)
    The Thin Red Line (25-Dec-1998)
    Dead Letter Office (26-Feb-1998)
    Doing Time for Patsy Cline (5-Sep-1997)
    The Well (14-May-1997)
    Love Serenade (10-Oct-1996)
    The Last Days of Chez Nous (8-Oct-1992)
    The 13th Floor (1988)

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