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Dakota Blue Richards
Chelsea, London, England, UK
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 Bela…
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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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2020
What The Butler Saw
Movie Geraldine
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2019
Beecham House
TV show Margaret Osbourne
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2016
ChickLit
Movie Zoe
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2016
The Quiet Hour
Movie Sarah
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2014
Girl Power
Movie Cass
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2014
The Fold
Movie Eloise Ashton
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2013
Endeavour
TV show WPC Shirley Trewlove
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2013
Lightfields
TV show Eve
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2009
Five Miles Out
Movie Cass
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2009
The Secret of Moonacre
Movie Maria Merryweather
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2008
Dustbin Baby
Movie April
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2007
The Golden Compass
Movie Lyra Belacqua
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2007
Skins
TV show Franky Fitzgerald
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2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV show Self
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1952
Today
TV show Self
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Each Coming Night
Movie Gwen
