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

Skins

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Endeavour

Today

The Golden Compass

The Secret of Moonacre

Beecham House

Lightfields

All Movies (10)

• What The Butler Saw2020 · as Geraldine
• ChickLit2016 · as Zoe
• The Quiet Hour2016 · as Sarah
• Girl Power2014 · as Cass
• The Fold2014 · as Eloise Ashton
• Five Miles Out2009 · as Cass
• The Secret of Moonacre2009 · as Maria Merryweather
• Dustbin Baby2008 · as April
• The Golden Compass2007 · as Lyra Belacqua
• Each Coming Night— · as Gwen

All TV Shows (6)

• Beecham House2019 · as Margaret Osbourne
• Endeavour2013 · as WPC Shirley Trewlove
• Lightfields2013 · as Eve
• Skins2007 · as Franky Fitzgerald
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show2003 · as Self
• Today1952 · as Self