Acting · Chelsea, London, England, UK · Born April 11, 1994
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.
MovieWhat The Butler Saw
2020
as Geraldine
TVBeecham House
2019
as Margaret Osbourne
MovieChickLit
2016
as Zoe
MovieThe Quiet Hour
2016
as Sarah
MovieGirl Power
2014
as Cass
MovieThe Fold
2014
as Eloise Ashton
TVEndeavour
2013
as WPC Shirley Trewlove
TVLightfields
2013
as Eve
MovieFive Miles Out
2009
as Cass
MovieThe Secret of Moonacre
2009
as Maria Merryweather
MovieDustbin Baby
2008
as April
MovieThe Golden Compass
2007
as Lyra Belacqua
TVSkins
2007
as Franky Fitzgerald
TVThe Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
TVToday
1952
as Self
Each Coming Night
as Gwen
