Name of Birth: Dakota Blue Richards
Date Of Birth: 11th April 1994
Place of Birth: Brighton, England, UK
Height: 5' 1½" / 1.56 m
Mother: Michaela
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'. 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.
Dakota Blue's mother is an American anthropologist and a social worker.
Dakota Blue traveled from her home in Brighton to Cambridge for the Lyra auditions under one condition: that she wouldn't be too upset if she was passed over.
Dakota Blue had just come home grumpy from a bad day at school when 'The Golden Compass' director Chris Weitz called her. Dakota's mother tried to put him on speaker phone, but accidentally hung up on him. Weitz called back and informed them of the good news.
Dakota Blue was a fan of the His Dark Materials series, having read the books and gone to see the stage play in London.
The makers of The Golden Compass sent Philip Pullman (Author of His Dark Materials trilogy) footage of their 40 favored girls who'd auditioned for the role of Lyra. He personally endorsed the two that he favored, one of them being Dakota Blue.
Dakota Blue's first interview was with Newsweek.
Dakota Blue wants to be a supply teacher.
Dakota Blue is a vegetarian.
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