2007Nominee
Best Performance
The Golden Compass
Dakota Blue Richards
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Chelsea, London, England, UK
April 11, 1994
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2009Nominee
Best Performance
The Secret of Moonacre
2009Nominee
Best Performance
Five Miles Out
Career Highlights
2016Highlight
Best Performance
The Quiet Hour
Highlight
Best Performance
Each Coming Night