Dakota Blue Richards
Biography
Dakota Blue Richards, born 11 April 1994 in Chelsea, London, England, is an English actress. In June 2006, at age twelve, she was selected from a nationwide audition process that drew ten thousand girls in Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter and Kendal for the role of Lyra Belacqua in the film adaptation of His Dark Materials: Northern Lights, released as The Golden Compass (2007). Casting directors chose her after she impressed them at the Cambridge auditions. Her mother is an American anthropologist. Richards is credited with sixteen acting roles according to The Movie Database, and is listed under the gender female.
Career overview
Dakota Blue Richards was born on 11 April 1994 in Chelsea, London, England. She is an English actress whose professional profile lists sixteen credited roles. In June 2006, while twelve years old, Richards was selected from a pool of approximately ten thousand girls who auditioned in Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter and Kendal for the part of Lyra Belacqua in the film adaptation of His Dark Materials: Northern Lights, released as The Golden Compass in 2007. The casting directors chose her after her performance at the Cambridge audition.
The role of Lyra marked Richards’s entry into feature‑film acting and established her as a recognized young talent in the industry. Her early career is noted for this high‑profile debut, after which she continued to work in both film and television, accumulating a total of sixteen credited appearances as recorded in her professional database entry. Richards’s mother is identified as an American anthropologist, reflecting a bi‑national family background. Throughout her career, Richards has been listed under the name Dakota Blue Richards and is recognized for her contributions to acting in the United Kingdom.
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- What The Butler Saw (2020) as Geraldine
- Beecham House (2019) as Margaret Osbourne
- ChickLit (2016) as Zoe
- The Quiet Hour (2016) as Sarah
- Girl Power (2014) as Cass
- The Fold (2014) as Eloise Ashton
- Endeavour (2013) as WPC Shirley Trewlove
- Lightfields (2013) as Eve
- Five Miles Out (2009) as Cass
- The Secret of Moonacre (2009) as Maria Merryweather
- Dustbin Baby (2008) as April
- Skins (2007) as Franky Fitzgerald
- The Golden Compass (2007) as Lyra Belacqua
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) as Self
- Today (1952) as Self
- Each Coming Night as Gwen
- Each Coming Night Director
- Each Coming Night Writer