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Dakota Blue Richards

Actor

Born April 11, 1994 (28 years)

​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.

Filmography

2019
Beecham House (TV Series) · as Margaret Osbourne
2016
ChickLit · as Zoe
2014
The Quiet Hour · as Sarah
2013
The Fold · as Eloise Ashton
2013
Lightfields (TV Series) · as Eve
2012
Endeavour (TV Series) · as WPC Shirley Trewlove
2009
Five Miles Out · as Cass
2008
The Secret of Moonacre · as Maria Merryweather
2008
Dustbin Baby · as April
2007
The Golden Compass · as Lyra Belacqua
2007
Skins (TV Series) · as Franky Fitzgerald
1952
Today (TV Series) · as Unknown

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