Dakota Blue Richards

Dakota Blue Richards is a child actress that scored a lead role in the 2007 fantasy film The Golden Compass. Her role as Lyra Belacqua was her first role ever, and she starred alongside Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. She lent her voice in The Golden Compass video game. Richards will have a lead role in the upcoming movie The Secret of Moonacre which also stars Ioan Gruffudd and Tim Curry.

1. "Daniel Craig is very funny and really nice but he does swear a lot. So we had a swear box and he had to put in 1 GBP every time he said a naughty word. By the end he owed me 55 GBP."
2. "One of the things Nicole Kidman taught me was, no matter what happens in a scene, you carry on even if you fall in a dustbin. If you get out of the bin and just carry on they might end up cutting it and using part of that scene anyway. But thankfully that's never happened to me."
3. "walked past the cinema on the way here, and there's a 'coming soon' poster for the film. It's not a particularly big picture of me, which is good because if it was massive I'd be scared and feel like I could never go to my local cinema again."
4. "They had stuffed cats you had to pick up and hold, it was like, 'Ewww.' And me being a vegetarian, and I don't wear fur - I'd come home smelling of dead cats!"

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• Born: 1994

• 2007: The Golden Compass

• 2008: The Secret of Moonacre