Dakota Blue Richards
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 11, 1994 (age 32)
- Birthplace
- Chelsea, London, England, UK
Biography
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.
Known For
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Filmography
Each Coming Night
Movie · as Gwen
What The Butler Saw
Movie · as Geraldine
Beecham House
TV · as Margaret Osbourne · 6 eps
The Quiet Hour
Movie · as Sarah
ChickLit
Movie · as Zoe
The Fold
Movie · as Eloise Ashton
Girl Power
Movie · as Cass
Lightfields
TV · as Eve · 5 eps
Endeavour
TV · as WPC Shirley Trewlove · 14 eps
The Secret of Moonacre
Movie · as Maria Merryweather
Five Miles Out
Movie · as Cass
Dustbin Baby
Movie · as April
The Golden Compass
Movie · as Lyra Belacqua
Skins
TV · as Franky Fitzgerald · 18 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Today
TV · as Self · 1 ep