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- Miranda Richardson is Shax in Good Omens Season 2, the demon who replaced Crowley in his position in Hell after being declared demona-non-grata. Richardson's past credits include Blackadder and Sleepy Hollow.
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Jul 28, 2023 · Returning viewers will recognize her as Miranda Richardson, the English actress who portrayed Madame Tracy in Season 1. In fact, Richardson is one of at least three talents to return for...
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Miranda Richardson is an English actress in the Amazon Prime Video series Good Omens. She portrayed Madame Tracy in Season 1 and the demon Shax, who has taken over for Crowley.
Miranda Richardson is an accomplished stage, film and television actress with a prodigious range. Her performances have been widely met with critical acclaim and award nominations. Richardson trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She made her first impression on film audiences in Mike Newell’s Dance with a Stranger. Her first US production was Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun. In 1992 Richardson’s performances in The Crying Game, directed by Neil Jordan, Enchanted April, directed by Mike Newell and Damage, directed by Louis Malle, garnered the New York Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress of the year.
Richardson won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Damage at the BAFTAs in 1993 and two Golden Globe awards for Best Actress (1993) and Best Supporting Actress in a Series (1995) for Enchanted April and Fatherland, respectively. In total, she has been nominated for seven BAFTAs (for her roles in After Pilkington (1988), The Crying Game (1993), Tom and Viv (1994), A Dance To The Music of Time (1998), The Lost Prince (2004) and Made in Dagenham (2011)) and seven Golden Globes (for her roles in Damage (1993), Tom and Viv (1994), Merlin (1999), The Big Brass Ring (2000) and The Lost Prince (2005)). Richardson has received two Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress (1993) for Damage and Best Actress (1995) for her portrayal of Vivienne Haigh-Wood, the wife of poet T.S. Eliot, in Tom and Viv. Richardson was nominated at the 1988 Olivier Awards in the Best Actress category for A Lie of the Mind.
Richardson is also well known for her role as Queen Elizabeth I, aka Queenie, in the British television comedy Blackadder. Additional high-profile supporting roles include Lady Mary Van Tassel in Sleepy Hollow, the voice of Mrs. Tweedy in the Aardman animation Chicken Run, Vanessa Bell in The Hours and Rita Skeeter, and the toxic Daily Prophet journalist in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I.
In 2017, Richardson starred in Stronger alongside Jake Gyllenhaal. Stronger is an inspiring true story of tragedy and rebirth after two peoples’ lives are forever altered by a terrifying act of violence. Directed by Gordon Green, Stronger follows Jeff Bauman, a survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, as he struggles to rebuild his life. Richardson stars as Bauman’s dedicated mother in a performance Deadline described as “an award-caliber turn.” Stronger screened at both the Toronto International Film Festival and London Film Festival in 2017.
In 2018, Richardson was seen in ITV’s six-part drama Girlfriends, written by BAFTA-winning screenwriter Kay Mellor. Girlfriends was nominated for the Drama Series Award at the National Television Awards 2019. Following this, Richardson was seen in Sky’s 10-part series Curfew alongside Sean Bean and Robert Glenister.
Richardson starred in the Amazon Original series Good Omens, Neil Gaiman’s TV adaptation of the beloved cult novel he wrote with Terry Pratchett. Richardson appeared alongside David Tennant and Michael Sheen. Richardson played Madame Tracy, the psychic medium and part-time courtesan who provides a helping hand to the pair as they try to save the world from Apocalypse. The six-part series launched globally on Prime Video in May 2019.
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Jul 31, 2023 · Among them is Miranda Richardson, who in Good Omens season 1 played Madame Tracy. Madame Tracy is a Medium and “intimate care and relaxation” professional living in an apartment opposite Sergeant Shadwell’s, who often called her offensive names.
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Aug 1, 2023 · Miranda Richardson was already a recurring character in the first season of Good Omens, where she played Madame Tracy, the medium-slash-‘intimate care and relaxation’ professional who lives in...
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- Michael Sheen As Aziraphale. Michael Sheen plays Aziraphale in the Good Omens season 2 cast, reprising his main role from season 1. Michael Sheen was born in Newport, Wales and first starred in the TV miniseries Mystery!
- David Tennant As Crowley. David Tennant joins the Good Omens season 2 cast as Crowley, the second main protagonist of the series. David Tennant was born in West Lothian, Scotland and got his start in the industry playing Neil McDonald in a 1988 episode of Dramarama.
- Jon Hamm As Gabriel. Jon Hamm's Good Omens season 2 cast character is Gabriel, the same angel from season 1, but who returns to Earth with complete amnesia.
- Doon Mackichan As Michael. Doon Mackichan plays the archangel Michael in the Good Omens season 2 cast. Doon Mackichan hails from London, England, and got her start in 1986 playing various characters on the show Five Alive.
Jul 27, 2023 · Miranda Richardson as Shax. Miranda Richardson returns to Good Omens season 2 as the new character of Shax, a demon who is Crowley’s replacement in hell and is hell’s representative in London. Shax quickly becomes embroiled in Gabriel’s disappearance from heaven and, along with Beelzebub, is extremely keen on tracking him down.
Jul 28, 2023 · ‘Good Omens’ Season 2 Cast and Character Guide: Who Plays Who in the Fantasy Series (Photos) Meet the new characters for the Prime Video show, including Miranda Richardson’s demon Shax
