Dakota Blue Richards
Acting
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Acting Credits
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.
Known For
Filmography
What The Butler Saw
2020
as Geraldine
Beecham House
2019
as Margaret Osbourne
The Quiet Hour
2016
as Sarah
ChickLit
2016
as Zoe
The Fold
2014
as Eloise Ashton
Girl Power
2014
as Cass
Lightfields
2013
as Eve
Endeavour
2013
as WPC Shirley Trewlove
The Secret of Moonacre
2009
as Maria Merryweather
Five Miles Out
2009
as Cass
Dustbin Baby
2008
as April
The Golden Compass
2007
as Lyra Belacqua
Skins
2007
as Franky Fitzgerald
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
Today
1952
as Self