Actor

Dakota Blue Richards

Contemporaryb. 1994DramaComedyThrillerAdventure

Chronicler of the Human Condition

Also directed 1 film ↗Also wrote 1 screenplay ↗

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Known For

9 acting credits

as Lyra Belacqua

The Golden Compass

as Lyra Belacqua

2007

The Golden Compass

Filmography

2020What The Butler SawGeraldine 2016The Quiet HourSarah4.5 2016ChickLitZoe5.4 2014The FoldEloise Ashton4.8 2014Girl PowerCass 2009The Secret of MoonacreMaria Merryweather6.6 2009

About

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.

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