Person
Dakota Blue Richards
Acting · Born 1994-04-11 · 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
Skins
Franky Fitzgerald
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
Endeavour
WPC Shirley Trewlove
Today
Self
The Golden Compass
Lyra Belacqua
The Secret of Moonacre
Maria Merryweather
Five Miles Out
Cass
Beecham House
Margaret Osbourne
Lightfields
Eve
ChickLit
Zoe
Filmography
- 2020What The Butler SawGeraldine
- 2019Beecham HouseMargaret Osbourne
- 2016ChickLitZoe
- 2016The Quiet HourSarah
- 2014Girl PowerCass
- 2014The FoldEloise Ashton
- 2013EndeavourWPC Shirley Trewlove
- 2013LightfieldsEve
- 2009Five Miles OutCass
- 2009The Secret of MoonacreMaria Merryweather
- 2008Dustbin BabyApril
- 2007The Golden CompassLyra Belacqua
- 2007SkinsFranky Fitzgerald
- 2003The Ellen DeGeneres ShowSelf
- 1952TodaySelf
- —Each Coming NightGwen
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