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Dakota Blue Richards
Dakota Blue Richards

Dakota Blue Richards

ActingBorn April 11, 1994 (age 32)Chelsea, London, England, UK

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.

Filmography

2020Movie
2019
Beecham House

as Margaret Osbourne

TV
2016
ChickLit

as Zoe

Movie
2016Movie
2014
Girl Power

as Cass

Movie
2014
The Fold

as Eloise Ashton

Movie
2013
Endeavour

as WPC Shirley Trewlove

TV
2013TV
2009Movie
2009
The Secret of Moonacre

as Maria Merryweather

Movie
2008
Dustbin Baby

as April

Movie
2007
The Golden Compass

as Lyra Belacqua

Movie
2007
Skins

as Franky Fitzgerald

TV
1952
Today

as Self

TV
Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayApril 11, 1994
Place of BirthChelsea, London, England, UK
Popularity1.1