​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.

Filmography

• 2020What The Butler Saw — Geraldine
• Beecham House — Margaret Osbourne
• 2016ChickLit — Zoe
• 2016The Quiet Hour — Sarah
• 2014Girl Power — Cass
• 2014The Fold — Eloise Ashton
• Endeavour — WPC Shirley Trewlove
• Lightfields — Eve
• 2009Five Miles Out — Cass
• 2009The Secret of Moonacre — Maria Merryweather
• 2008Dustbin Baby — April
• Skins — Franky Fitzgerald
• 2007The Golden Compass — Lyra Belacqua
• Each Coming Night — Gwen, Director, Writer, Producer

Appearances as themselves (2)

• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Today — Self