Miranda Otto was born on December 16, 1967 in Brisbane, Queensland. She is an Australian actress.

Otto's first post-graduation film role in 1991, as Nell Tiscowitz in The Girl Who Came Late. Otto's next role was in the film The Last Days of Chez Nous.

Otto's first starring roles were in the 1997 films The Well and Doing Time for Patsy Cline. Otto's next project was the romantic comedy Dead Letter Office (1998).

Her first Hollywood role was opposite Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer in the suspense thriller What Lies Beneath in 2000. In 1999, Otto was cast as Éowyn, a shieldmaiden of Rohan, in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Other her credits include Flight of the Phoenix (2004) and War of the Worlds (2005).

She married actor Peter O'Brien on January 1, 2003.

Filmography

• How to Change in 9 Weeks (2008)
• "Cashmere Mafia" (7 episodes, 2008)
• "The Starter Wife" (2007) (mini) TV mini-series
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
• "Through My Eyes" (2004) (mini) TV mini-series
• In My Father's Den (2004)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• Danny Deckchair (2003)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
• Julie Walking Home (2002)
• Doctor Sleep (2002)
• "The Way We Live Now" (2001) (mini) TV mini-series
• Human Nature (2001)
• Volpe a tre zampe, La (2001)
• What Lies Beneath (2000)
• Kin (2000)
• The Jack Bull (1999) (TV)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• In the Winter Dark (1998)
• Dead Letter Office (1998)
• Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)
• True Love and Chaos (1997)
• The Well (1997)
• Love Serenade (1996)
• "Police Rescue" (1 episode, 1995)
• Sex Is a Four Letter Word (1995)
• The Nostradamus Kid (1993)
• The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
• Heroes II: The Return (1991) (TV)
• The Girl Who Came Late (1991)
• The 13th Floor (1988)
• "A Country Practice" (4 episodes, 1988)
• "The Flying Doctors" (1 episode, 1988)
• Initiation (1987)
• Emma's War (1986)