I first saw her in 1992 Damage with Jeremy Irons. She was only like 34 then and was playing the mother to a guy in his 20's. She looked at least 10 years older than her age and still does.
Attractive?? Maybe at times. But she is no pinup.
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shareI really disagree with that, she's 51 now and I think she looks about 40. I think she has alway looked younger than she is, excluding films like Phantom of the Opera (at the beginning) when she is supposed to look older.
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I don't think you can say that because she played the mother in Damage she looks older than she is. There's a huge tradition in film of casting young women in roles far older than them - a stupid tradition, in my opinion, because fifty year-old women are often even hotter than younger ones! But even in a classic like The Graduate, Ann Bancroft was something like six years older than Dustin Hoffman when she was meant to be old enough to be his mother!
Miranda is exactly a week older than my mother, and I could tell you right now which of them looks younger, but I won't because my mother might find out in some super-powers Motherish way and be offended.
Certainly she looked older in Damage - she was made up, dressed and styled like a middle-aged woman - and certainly she does look her age in some roles now, but honestly, what's wrong with that?
I think we're so used to seeing young, surgically altered actresses in Hollywood that when we see someone who looks real it's an anomaly.
It's a testament to her great acting that she made that middle-aged mother role work, well, that and good make-up and costume. Rupert Graves was 28 at that time.
I've seen her once in the flesh, when she was performing in a Wallace Shawn play at the Royal Court in 2009 and she looked more like 40 than 51. The play was in the small space downstairs, btw, which can be rather unforgiving for the actors in terms of audiences gazes.
She was styled to be somewhat frumpy and middle aged in "Damaged".
She didn't look 40 something in "The Crying Game", which came out that same year...in fact she looked much younger than 34.
"they should give nicole kidman an oscar for being able to show any emotion after THAT much botox".