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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. Miranda Otto slips into the 'Rings' By Jeannie Williams, USA TODAY "It's like being in your own fairy tale!" raves Miranda Otto of her role as Eowyn in the next two Lord of the Rings movies, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Otto, yet another member of the "Aussie posse," won't be seen until December in Towers. But you can spot her in Human Nature, a small, quirky movie opening in selected cities Friday, and as the American Mrs. Hurtle in the current PBS Masterpiece Theatre series, The Way We Live Now. You've probably seen Otto in a number of smaller roles. During casting for Rings in 1999, she was in L.A. making What Lies Beneath, her first big-budget movie, in which she was a mysterious next-door neighbor to Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. When she returned to Australia, where she is widely known, she was asked to read for Eowyn, a woman who becomes a warrior. Otto's character wasn't in Fellowship of the Ring. Otto describes Eowyn as "slightly cold, white, emotionally distant, a lady. ... But once Aragorn (played by Viggo Mortensen) comes along, there's a huge well of feeling for him. She's a very passionate person underneath." She spent five months in New Zealand on the two Rings movies director Peter Jackson made after Fellowship. She likes Eowyn because she's "not some wimpy kind of Sleeping Beauty character, but someone with a bit of guts." She "falls in love (with Aragorn). ... But her love is unrequited, and she dresses up as a man, goes to war and kills the king of the witches." Otto, 34, adored the medieval costumes: "My favorite! I've always wanted to dress like that." Even more, she liked the sword fighting. "It was fun, extremely liberating. I'd like to do more of it, even though I stabbed someone in the leg!" Otto, daughter of Aussie actor Barry Otto, was once involved with Richard Roxburgh, the Duke of Monroth in Moulin Rouge. That ended a year and a half ago. As a "swinging single," she has had "the best two years of my life, so much more time to concentrate on my life and career." She has had some hunky co-stars, including Mortensen. "He's lovely! He was Aragorn. It was difficult to tell when Viggo ended and Aragorn began. And he's an amazing sword fighter." In Doctor Sleep, her co-star was Goran Visnjic of ER fame; in Julia Walking Home, William Fichtner (Black Hawk Down). In Human Nature, she's with Tim Robbins and the personable Rhys Ifans, who plays a man raised as an ape in the wild. "Really nice men," she says. "It re-inspires me that there is hope out there." In Human Nature, she plays a French lab assistant to Robbins, who is involved with a hirsute woman, Patricia Arquette. Otto says the Charlie Kaufman-penned (Being John Malkovich) movie "is not your sitcom-type sense of humor. I think there's a big market for people who are bored with what they're seeing and want something a bit different." Full Name: Miranda Otto Biography: Miranda Otto was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on December 16, 1967. She is the daughter of famed Australian actor, Barry Otto. She graduated from the prestigious NIDA Theatrical School in 1990 and has been nominated four-times in the Australian Film Institute's for best actress. Otto made her film debut in Emma's War in 1986 and gained critical recognition in 1991's The Girl Who Came Late. She has been in many critically acclaimed but little-seen films. Otto finally got Hollywood's attention with small roles in major motion pictures such as The Thin Red Line (1998) and Robert Zemeckis' What Lies Beneath (2000). After Cameron Diaz decided to star in being John Malkovich, Otto lost the role in a film she really wanted to do. The director, however, remembered her and cast her in the movie Human Nature (much to Otto's delight). Otto landed the role of Eowyn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and is Tolkien's only really detailed female character in the books. She spent six-months on set learning sword fighting and horseback riding. Otto is currently living in Australia and is happily single. The Lord of the Rings movies are expected to gain her world-wide attention, something she's not entirely sure she wants. |
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