Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 11, 1994
Place of Birth
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Credits
16 titles
Dakota Blue Richards
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
Geraldine
Beecham House
Margaret Osbourne
ChickLit
Zoe
The Quiet Hour
Sarah
Girl Power
Cass
The Fold
Eloise Ashton
Endeavour
WPC Shirley Trewlove
Lightfields
Eve
Five Miles Out
Cass
The Secret of Moonacre
Maria Merryweather
Dustbin Baby
April
The Golden Compass
Lyra Belacqua
Skins
Franky Fitzgerald
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
Today
Self
Each Coming Night
Gwen