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After earning top accolades for her Australian film and stage work,
Miranda Otto has recently completed work on both sides of the Atlantic.
She will be seen starring as the title character in Julie Walking Home
(filmed in Canada and Poland) for acclaimed Polish director Agnieszka
Holland. The film premiered at the 2002 Venice and Toronto Film Festivals.
Otto will also star in the forthcoming The Three Legged Fox,
(filmed in Italy) directed by Sandro Dionisio, as well as Doctor Sleep
(filmed in the UK), a thriller that also stars ER's Goran Visnjic.
Otto recently completed the Australian romantic comedy Danny and the Deckchair,
in which she is re-teamed with Rhys Ifans. She was last seen on screen
with Ifans alongside Tim Robbins and Patricia Arquette in Charlie Kaufman's first
feature since Being John Malkovich, Human Nature. The dark comedy,
directed by Michel Gondry, premiered at both the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and was released in April 2002.
Otto garnered rave reviews this Spring for her portrayal of Nora Helmer in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of the Henrik Ibsen classic "A Doll's House."
A graduate of the prestigious Australian theatrical school NIDA, which also boasts such alumnae as Mel Gibson,
Judy Davis and Cate Blanchett, Otto has been honored with Australian Film Institute
award nominations for her work in In The Winter Dark, The Well, Daydream Believer, and The Last Days of Chez Nous.
She also earned an Australian Film Critics Circle Award nomination for her
performance in Last Days of Chez Nous, as well as for Love Serenade,
which won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Otto's other credits include Robert Zemekis's What Lies Beneath, with Harrison
Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer; Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line; Kin; Dead Letter Office; Doing Time for Patsy Cline; True Love and Chaos, and Jack Bull,
opposite John Cusack, for HBO.
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